My favorite Rodney Dangerfield joke has nothing to do with the rules about madras and white bucks and Labor Day, which the rest of this article will be full of. Here’s the joke. “I asked my wife, Honey, how come you never make any noise when you have an orgasm? And she says, how would …
I have always been a fan of Chukka boots. The desert boot’s close cousin, Chukka boots are essentially a beefed-up version of their relative. While the basic outline remains the same, Chukkas have a slightly more streamlined silhouette and are made of sturdier leathers and more durable rubber soles. All around, the Chukka is …
J. Press is Ivy’s North Star, and the catalog, which you can see if you click here, strikes the perfect balance between letting us know North is still North and inviting a new audience. We’ll take a quick tour here, but really, go look for yourself. J. Press has not only stayed true to its …
The lead picture is boat shoes not on a boat. Here’s Aristotle: Aristotle knew how to frame thinking. He wrote a book. Rhetoric. In Rhetoric he talked about the Rule of Three. That people remember things most easily in three’s. I have heard, but cannot verify, that that is why area codes and the …
Editor’s Note: Just spoke to Tucker at Andover – this is a great opportunity to work in the field with one of the greats. The information you need is below. – JB The Cambridge and Andover locations of The Andover Shop are looking for seasoned full and part-time sales associates. This is a unique opportunity to …
My ritual is this. Every morning for the past seven years, I get up at 3:15 to 3:30. People find this hard to believe, so over the years I have challenged people to send me a random email at that hour, see if I respond. Then I realized what a tool move that was, and …
Is a home run. Why a home run? He rolled the cuffs, and no socks. Kidding. Kinda. Michael Bastian and Brooks Brothers gave the first look yesterday, less of a collection and more of a message, and it is a brilliant one. And I was the first one out of the gate screeching that tee …
Editor’s Note: Why Ivy Guys? is a title I guess I am stealing from Zoe, to be a monthly column about the perception of Ivy guys. We will also do a Why Ivy Ladies except I need someone to write it and give me a title I can steal. This’ll be monthly too. The columns. …
Just take a look. There are new entries into the OCBD market (I reviewed one). A lot of them. Fashion predictions are like – well you know the saying about everyone having one. But we can still identify a trend when we see one. Once a quarter we will do an organized, reader-driven review of …
I haven’t worn aftershave in 30 years. I have had a beard my whole adult life (and part of my childhood, if you count 10th grade as childhood). The first time in 30 years I wear aftershave, and I had it strapped to my face. I live in Westchester, NY, and was heading into town …
The good news is that there was so much traffic. The bad news is that the host wasn’t ready for that many surprise dinner guests. The good news is we are now. Apologies for being down the last few days – there are so many things happening here and none of them could start without …
The American-made oxford cloth button-down shirt (or the original polo shirt), has been put into peril. Another blow to American-made American style. But as the old saying goes, “every ending is a new beginning.” Enter Junior’s, the Philadelphia-based, American-made, and Ivy league style-centric company founded by Glenn Au in 2020. Cutting his teeth at the famous O’Connell’s Clothing …
I didn’t know that the Golden Retriever breed is only 150 years old. The 13th Amendment is 150 years old, so are speed limits and The Secret Service. Golden Retrievers owe themselves to Lord Tweedmouth. Of course they do. 1864. Lord Tweedmouth was an interesting guy. He came from money, and when that money trickled …
Editor’s note: I blame myself. We use the Latin version on FB, and when we introduced it we met with A TON of discussion – which wound up (I love it when social media actually does good) in the hands of two (2) (more than one believe it or not) actual (real) Latin scholars, and …
Once a week or so we will profile a member of the Facebook Group to see how Ivy Style translates to Real Life. They take place over text or Messenger. Laura Arnold is relatively new to the group, she has been there for about a year, but has received a tremendous response because (1) she …
This, folks, is the collar of Paul Stuart’s new offering, the Oxford Non Iron Sports Shirt. That is what they call it. That is not what I call it. Tom Turner of our site emailed me this yesterday and we had a great talk about it (that man knows the business of ocbd’s better than …
The inevitable result of the fall of the Ivy League Look in 1967 is that eventually, for a certain segment of the public, the look would become America’s version of the powder and wigs of the ancient regime. Which means it’s time for the guillotine. Ralph Lauren, the man largely credited with saving the Ivy …
Some years ago The Rake asked me to meditate on the concept of poolside elegance. My starting point was the work of Slim Aarons, while my ending note was James Bond. In between are stops in Palm Beach with a few notes on WASPdom. If anything, this piece should get you thinking about a summer …