Are you a student or working man who’s been told to stay home? DO NOT USE THIS AS AN EXCUSE TO LET YOUR SARTORIAL STANDARDS SLIP! Put on your best outfitt, take a photo, and email it to christian@ivy-style.com for what will be the first of hopefully-not-too-many best-dressed contests as we ride out the Coronavirus. …
Recently I was perusing a 1979 Brooks Brothers catalog and this image caught my eye. I liked the contrast of the patchwork tweed cap with the otherwise “correct” clothing. This has always been the WASP approach to sartorial whimsy. I’d been on the lookout for a new cap for this fall/winter season, and decided to seek …
A little dash of humor for your weekend with a flashback to this post from a decade ago, which offers a glimpse at the sense of whimsy that ran in tandem with the modesty and sobriety of the Ivy League Look — especially when it came to the clothier Chipp. * * * When legendary …
Yeah that headline is a bit florid. Then again, this isn’t Junior-College-Style.com. If it were, it would be about what I wore for my freshman and sophomore years. Back in 2011 Ivy Style ran a series of posts we called Bicycle Week. Here’s a revisit of one of the posts that should inspire you to …
The Supreme Court has been rebuked by figures on both sides of the political spectrum as being too partisan. For all of scolding it has received, however, one justice deserves praise for having stood alone in preserving not only the law, but trad style. Justice Stephen Breyer, appointed to the court in 1994, has unknowingly …
The Yale-Vassar bike race found its origins in a drunken wager. At a meeting of Yale’s Trumbull Beer and Bike Society, one student declared he could beat another in a bicycle race all the way to Vassar. However, this valiant duel between two determined Trumbull residents quickly became a popular annual tradition in the early …
The following is a sponsored post from Hemingway Tailors. * * * With over 100 years of family tailoring history and experience, Hemingway is renowned in the UK for classic bespoke and made-to-measure garments including jackets, suits, waistcoats, trousers, overcoats, and shirts made from only the finest fabrics. Hemingway combines the best of American and British …
In response to our last post, which was penned by a young woman, frequent comment-leaver SE sent in some images of female students from the University of the South’s 1978 yearbook, depicting a mixture of masculine and feminine elements in their wardrobe. I came of age in the ’80s and dreamed of girls like Jennifer in …
Today is International Women’s Day, and so we are pleased to present a post penned by a young woman with a taste for trad clothing. * * * What makes a woman trad? It’s a tricky question, especially these days. A certain self-possession, an appreciation for the mutually beneficial relationship between form and function, and …
When I arrived in Newport a few months ago, having spent the past decade in New York, I was in no hurry to buy a car. I’ve been enjoying getting around entirely by bicycle, even when dressed up for a meeting or event. That’s called “cycle chic,” which is defined by Wikipedia as “the culture …
“1986 was no ordinary year. A gallon of gas was 89¢, Halley’s Comet buzzed the earth, and a company called Dockers was about to upend what guys wear to work forever.“ So goes the ad copy for the Dockers brand, created in 1986 as a subsidiary of Levi’s, so as to differentiate the brand images. “Taking …
Nine years ago this month, I wrote a story for The Rake on The Cary Collection. Inspired by a post by Unabashedly Prep’s Fred Castleberry (who supplied the photos), I made an appointment with Thomas Cary and proceeded to crawl through what he calls “the King Tut’s tomb of the preppy era,” trying not to knock anything …
Natural-shoulder greetings to all on the first-ever International Ivy Style Day. Today is March the second, otherwise known as 3/2.
You’ve no doubt noticed in our recent coverage of the brewing Ivy trend that the mood of the photo shoots is rather glum. You can hardly blame them. It’s 2020, after all. I mean, I don’t smile very much either, and when I do, well let’s just say it’s not from joy but rather absurdity. …
Thanks to all of you who keep my inbox full with Tradsville news, in case I miss something. Let’s start to get caught up. First off, a full four weeks ago MR, the last extant menswear trade publication, ran a large feature entitled “Prep Fashion Returns For A New Generation.” Quote: But while prep started in …
We close out February with this fine example of what Ralph Lauren was doing back in 2011. The collection’s press release included the following copy: Polo Ralph Lauren presents a world of vintage preppy dressing inspired by the iconic Northeast, from a rugged Maine expedition to an urban Ivy League campus to charming New England …
You’ve probably noticed over the past couple of years that J. Press has greatly improved its bi-annual brochures under the tutelage of executive Robert “Squeeze” Squillaro (I gave him that nickname, by the way, and he’s yet to tell me not to use it). The new one for spring-summer has just been posted online, and …
Old Money Style is latest in Byron Tully’s thoughtful series of books on the habits and practices those who have known the best in clothing, manner, and deportment for generations. He puts these ideas into practice, and across the series, emphasizes that old money is about much more than the money itself – and …
Frequent comment-leaver SE sent in this vintage Southwick ad promoting the color “olive gray.” Alas as the image is in black and white, we can only see the gray. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday evening, and see you tomorrow with a stimulating Q&A on the charm — and status — of old clothes. — …