Ivy-Style: The Podcast With Bruce Boyer Sponsored By Duck Head and The Andover Shop
The first of what I hope are many informal conversations with the GOAT, G. Bruce Boyer. Please support our sponsors by shopping at Duck Head & The Andover Shop.
A Brooks Tale
Editor’s Note: Reprinted with permission from the FB group by member Jim Moore, who is an English Teacher and Squash Coach at Blair Academy. That’s him pictured. It is almost too easy to pile on to Brooks Brothers these days; we all, it seems, have a story about how this once great firm, to whose …
St Johns, The Stones, and Save10
If you are on St Johns mailing list you are gonna get a great email today. If you are not, go here now and sign up. The Rolling Stones are releasing a new album today. And, if you use the code THANKYOU10 on St Johns site? 10% off! Have a great weekend. – JB
Punting Football
That cover shot is the Princeton Football team of 1885. I used to LOVE football. My high school didn’t have it, and I probably would have have been that good at it. I did dislocate my shoulder playing pickup though once. At college there were two ways to meet ladies, one was to play football …
Real World Applications
John, Attached is a photo of my father wearing his daily work attire. Hewas a career civil servant who rose to be in charge of the Federal Budgetat Budget Bureau/OMB. He was known for his bow ties and my memoryis that he was the only one who wore them in the office. The picture is from a …
Take A Bow
The Amazing Tom sent me an article about Patrick McHenry and the history of bow ties in American politics. (Paywall alert.) It’s one of a number of articles about Mr. McHenry and his bow ties, almost all of which describe the bow tie as in one way or another bygone. I really don’t understand why …
Set Sail with St Johns
This is so Ivy. For the month of October, $1 from every purchase goes to the Navy Safe Harbor Foundation. From the web site: MISSION:NSHF assists with non-medical resources not available through government funding. The assistance is designed to optimize the success of the warrior’s recovery and rehabilitation. NSHF aims to ensure that every enrolled …
Last Word On The Senate Dress Code
Editor’s Note: the lady with the guitar is Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, the first woman U.S. senator. She was 87 years old when appointed. She broke tradition, and agism, while dressing traditionally. …. and then we can move on. Is it as curious to you as it is to me that the dress code does …
Duck Head’s Big Deal
This is limited edition, so you might want to skip the rest of this and just go here and buy the pants. If you know anything about Ivy, you know that it is the only place where trad and irreverence meet. In 1978, Duck Head was only 113 years old. But the college kids were …
J. Press Again Sets The Bar. The Bar. They Served Scotch. Get It?
I missed an amazing event because… this: But had I gone to J. Press in town I would have had this: And I would have learned about this: That’s tweed from Lovat Mill. Also the cloths featured in Press’ MTM/MTO collection. So I am was bummed that I missed it, until this, which is an …
Just Sayin’
The system does work, voices do matter, and sometimes we get it right.. Photo Credit: By United States Senate – https://www.senate.gov/index.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63532525
It’s What They’re Choosing NOT To Do
Was having dinner with my daughter last night and she was telling me about her ethics class. They were posed with a dilemma – you are conducting a train and you learn that you are going to crash into five people OR you can switch tracks and only kill one person. But you are choosing …
Dress rehearsal
Editor’s Note: Again all gratitude to Dan Covell. Great piece, perfect time of year for it. Also photo selection credit: Dan Covell. Every year around this time, as a new school year commences, I get the urge to re-watch “The Paper Chase.” You likely know of it – the 1973 film that depicts the struggles …
On The Senate Dress Code
Editor’s Note: This is not a political site anymore, it is a club where we speak civilly and think hard. Please be mindful of same in your comments to this post. If you are not new to the site, forgive my repeating the story, but if you are new, here’s what happened. About a decade …
A Great Story From The FB Group
Editor’s Note: MANY thanks to Mr. Jim Moore for this great photo and an even better story. Classic Ivy. In the spring of 1988, Jos. A Bank was a middle-income man’s version of Brooks Brothers: its undarted coats featured a 3/2 closure and a center hook vent, its button-down collars rolled admirably, and their tailors …
Can We Talk Boxers?
Unless you count the hybrid shoes that, despite Ivy-Style’s best efforts seem to be coming back, and maybe velcro but only on foul weather gear, the greatest innovation in men’s fashion over the last 50 years has to be the boxer brief and yet it gets very little love. Let us repair that breach. Boxer …
Holiday Buying Guide Review Call For Products
J. Press, Duck Head, and Jay Butler in this photo. Please leave me any final companies you want me to reach out to in the notes below.
Holy Ivy-Style
From Steve Getman, perhaps the greatest Ivy Style photo of all time. And from the MIGHTY Anthony Kalamut, a quick laugh:
A Q&A With Bill Thomas, Founder of PennBilt
Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Mitchell for this Q&A. PennBilt has been featured on the site, we welcome them now as an advertiser. Please click through and check out the next step in khakis, and some badass gloves. Recently, I called PennBilt customer service with a question about khakis never expecting to have Bill Thomas …