This documentary shows what the remnants of ivy style looked like on an ivy campus a decade or so into this century, with Press serving some of the older faculty who had entered in the middle to last third of the previous century. Those who dressed in this general style seemed to do so in ways that were very similar--nothing bright or flashy, in part because almost the whole academic year was cool weather, even through the spring. They were very much products of the middle 20th c. in terms of outlook as well as dress, having discarded parts of the 'full tweeds' worn prewar that McCullogh makes reference to in the beginning.

https://www.amazon.com/Vincent-Scully-Historian-Among-Architects/dp/B00HGVJL06

Last edited by Bulldog (2019-02-20 10:19:15)

/\  Scully was a great, of course I knew of him at school but didn't ever get to take his course, later in his life when he spent some time down here I got to hang out with him a bit and got to know his genius, which made me glad because I had always felt that I had missed out on a New Haven essential before ....

he was a New Haven local and supporting the classic town haberdashers like J. Press, Arthur M. Rosenberg, Barrie Ltd., Arnold's Boot Shop, White of New Haven, the Co-Op, et al. was obligatory for him .....

/\  always had a lot of conservative Tory decision-making there though

Last edited by leonvincent (2019-02-25 07:05:22)

^this has reached an undesirable point; his collar is too tight and the roll is distorted.

^ I can't top that... but the collar roll in the White Owl ad at 30 seconds into this video is absolutely fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOeG1-_2UBk

/\  is that Luigi Vercotti?  nice seersucker in any event, it would be a shame it someone was to set fire to it .....