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The Universally Young And The Universally Pedantic 26 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
It’s always fun flipping through the Japanese magazine Free & Easy and seeing all the botched English, such as “Made in trad.” Having spent a summer in Japan, I can assure you that nonsensical English...
Golden Years: A J. Press Tie For Dr. King 23 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the March On Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, Richard Press shares this memory about the time his father bequeathed to King a sm...
Cary Grant’s $8K Monkey Business Sportcoat 20 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
This morning we were alerted to a sportcoat made for Cary Grant in “Monkey Business” for the scene in which a youth serum gives the 48-year-old Grant the tastes and behavior of a college student. The ...
The Ivy League Look As Youth Serum: Cary Grant In Monkey Business, 1952 19 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
The other night I was browsing the streaming Netflix options and ended up watching “Monkey Business,” the 1952 screwball comedy with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe. I hadn’t seen the movie since starti...
James Dean On Nantucket: Market Coverage For Spring 2014 17 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
A few weeks ago saw our semi-annual menswear market weeks here in New York, so I went to a couple of trade shows to see what we can expect in the neo-prep space come next spring. First up is the abov...
The Illustrated Man: Midcentury Magazine Artist Joe Bowler 14 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
While performing a Google Image search for some random terminology recently, I came across an illustration that caught my eye. It turned out to be from an artist named Joe Bowler who made his living i...
The Casual Roll: Gant x Yale, 1966 12 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
Frequent comment-leaver Old School alerted us to this 1966 Gant ad, which he’d found on the web but didn’t think had been tumblred to death. The ad copy attests to correctness of Gant’s oxford button...
Pennies From Heaven? Bass Unveils New Website, Weejun Campaign 10 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
This week GH Bass & Co. took a big leap into fashion relevance with a new ecommerce site and Weejun-focused marketing campaign called “Power To The Penny.” Bass has also created a “Penny Yourself” Fa...
Take Ivy Photographer Teruyoshi Hayashida, 1930-2013 8 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
Japanese photographer Teruyoshi Hayashida (林田照慶), who created legendary photo book “Take Ivy” as well as follow-ups “The Ivy” and “Take 8 Ivy,” died on August 8 after a battle with cancer. He was just...
A New Port Of Call 6 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm
Lately we’ve been talking about the year 1954 as an arbitrary starting point for the Ivy heyday. Both LIFE Magazine and Playboy ran big stories on the look that year, and Miles Davis is believed to ha...
