Kamakura recently unveiled a new unlined OCBD called the Sport model. Here’s the description: The traditional button-down shirts of America from the 1960s captured the hearts of so many in the past. Now, those button-downs have been reproduced using all the techniques available to Kamakura Shirts. It is said that the button-down shirt was born …
Last month Ralph Lauren’s store in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo reopened after a remodel. If the uptown Rhinelander mansion is a sartorial Disneyland, then this store is Six Flags. But whereas the Rhinelander features other RL labels such as Purple Label and RLX, the SoHo shop is devoted almost entirely to Blue Label. And …
Our last post showed how Ivy’s done in Japan, and here’s how it’s done in Manchester. From Ivy Style’s Facebook group, three English blokes at a summer screening of the John Simons documentary “A Modernist,” which you can watch on Vimeo here.
Don’t unpack your sweaters just yet (what’s known as premature unpackulation), as there’s still plenty of heat in the forecast, at least here on the East Coast. But it’ll be time soon enough. And remember, there’s more to the Ivy sweater genre than just Shaggy Dogs. Take playwright Neil Simon, for example, who’s pictured above …
Taking the madras out for the last weekend of summer in Copenhagen, Denmark. From Ivy Style’s Facebook group. Like this post and want more like it, more often? Help keep Ivy Style going for another decade.
In case you missed it, yesterday was National Bow Tie Day. No worries: you can still wear one today. And if you don’t have one, visit the father-son duo at R. Hanauer, which operates BowTies.com and is one of Ivy Style’s most loyal sponsors. And to inspire you, here are some outfits from Ivy Style …
Our last post on the Brooks exhibit at Grand Central inspired this submission from a reader. Like this post and want more like it, more often? Help keep Ivy Style going for another decade. * * * If one looks closely at the crest on the historic blazer in the recent Brooks Brothers exhibit, it …
There’s still plenty of summer left, and so new contributor Mawuli Grant Agbefe has rounded up a sampling of the red trousers currently on the market. Agbefe hails from Chicago and graduated from Baylor in 2014. He is currently working as a debate coach. Follow him on Instagram @The_winterwhitehouse. Like this post and want more content like …
Presented in honor of National Orgasm Day.
This posted yesterday to Instagram (click here to play). Perhaps the guy had just come from the airport. Then again, that’s a lot of hashtags.
This weekend is menswear market week here in New York, and so my biannual check-in with the friends and colleagues who help keep the Ivy Style ship sailing as we head into our second decade (if you’d like fresh content on a daily basis, please consider supporting the site). Randall Hanauer, Sr. of R. Hanauer/BowTies.com …
Like this post and want more content like it, more often? Help Ivy Style reach its goal of 1,000 true fans. * * * There was a time when the name Mark Fore & Strike was known from Cape Cod to South Florida, notes Thomas Cary of The Cary Collection. Back then, a gentleman wearing …
This post from last spring snagged a mention in the comments section on yesterday’s post about the launch of the new RL collection Boathouse, and so we pay it a revisit. Enjoy this and want more content more often? Help Ivy Style reach its goal of 1,000 true fans. * * * After a mild …
While fruitlessly searching for no-show socks at the downtown Boston Macy’s Monday, I stepped into a time portal. Or at least I felt that I had. There, hanging from a rack in the store’s little Polo Ralph Lauren section, was a genuine article from Rugby Ralph Lauren. And another beside it, and another beside that… Could …
Collective Wisdom is our new series in which I cleverly redirect questions that land in my inbox to you, the illustrious commentariat, because someone seeking advice should have access to more opinions than just mine. TJ writes: I’m taking the family to Paris in a week. I really wanted to pack clothes that were neutral …
A few weeks ago I received an email from a Bermuda-based clothing brand, and, in light of our current island-based miniseries, now is the perfect opportunity to address it. It’s also a follow-up to my essay on the “bro,” which I thought was posted not so many months ago, but in fact dates from last …
Today loyal reader BC emailed me to say he’d just returned from Bermuda and rushed to check Ivy Style to see what he’d missed. Coincidentally, our most recent post was on what to pack for a trip to Bermuda — if you were a wealthy Princeton man in 1949, that is. So here are a …
Random photo discovered on Pinterest. Checked sportcoat, club tie, and blue buttondown with delightful roll.
Whenever we put up a post on the bright colors and crazy patterns of what is known colloquially, or rather Internetically, as go-to-hell, the chorus of curmudgeons always chimes in with cantakerous remarks about how it’s all mere kids’ stuff. There’s no changing the minds of intractable fellows such as this, but for those of …