I have no clue what Sta Prest would be (although I can immagine permacrease to be a factor), but it sounds like an absolutely lovely look. The vest, rather than the cardigan, but that's me.

Oh and R&C is gaggy.

Those are great comments from that source. Like tom22, there are a lot of people out there who were present and I would hope their stories could be recorded, but alas it is unlikely to happen.

I think the razor lengths go in 3 mm units, so it's 24 mm top, 12 mm sides and 6 mm sideburns. My hair is pretty much the same, only slightly longer sideburns. The Boston is a new expression for me.

I actually cut my hair in an 8-4-2 style but never heard of that term "842", tho I dont always comb/part much nowadays.  A bit of dirty/clean pomade and my fingertips and I'm ready to go.

as far as the music and clothes are concerned, that's my boat right there.  tbh, always been more of a soul/50s-60s R&B fan than jazz.

I need to find out the chap's age in '69...

Checking out KR this look was around in London since '67 .

Things that struck me:

The hair is longer than I thought for a fashionable Ivy styler back then.

Also the hair was his focus. The clothes came after & then a quick word about music.

J.


Edit: And loafers were way down the list for him. For me this look is all about loafers!

Another Edit: That date of '67 is just from Kevin Rowland in 'The Look'. Obviously this look was in London going way back to Lou Austin's shop & before.

Last edited by Russell_Street (2008-04-03 10:17:32)

Interesting info, a great find......much more detail than I can remember..... I was aged 22 in late 1968 when The Squire shop opened? The sort of stuff I was wearing: The Saxone loafers, dark grey Sta-Prest, no break, brown herringbone jacket made up by a Polish tailor in Willesden. I took a pal's sack jacket to him and he copied it using some material I already had....... I remember buying an oatmeal shetland crew-neck and a yellow striped oxford cloth BD from the Squire shop around this time....I also had a suede zipper jacket and 501s......Regarding my haircut it was normally a grown out college boy with a fairly high parting. My girl friend was hairdresser and she used to keep it looking like it had not just been cut....I don't recall a name for this style of dress, to me it was just what we wore in London at the time........a year or two later we moved on to the French styled stuff........

great stuff, again. this is why i love this forum.

the look described in the first post, very much what i've been wearing on a daily basis (with a few nods towards contemporary 'casual') for a while now. although my current haircut is now longer (have grown it on purpose, just to see how a longer barnet works), being more of a mid-seventies soul groover (lol) or 'smoothie', if you like. going to have it cut back tothe good ol 8ish next friday though.

i'd very much like to read on 'the french cut' and the direction london ivy took come mid-late seventies.

alex, sorry mate, i completely forgot about you working on french cut! sorry, too much drink has gone through my brains of late!

as for being patient, i've got the patience of a saint lol (not really.. )

Wow!

Thank you very much for all that.

Is Harrisons still quite Ivy? I will definitely call in whatever. It is still there, Google informs.

(Jeeves is very helpful re: loading photos, btw. if you still need a hand with all that.)

- I'm very pleased with the 842. I've been wearing a 6/3 or 6/4 of late but the added step of an 8/4/2 makes quite a difference to the way it all tapers in to the neck and sideburns. It adds to the whole silhouette I think: Short hair tapering down to nothing, natural shoudlers, minimal break trousers and then those lovely big American shoes.

http://www.justacote.com/paris-vetements_homme-140299-harrison.html

Best -

Jim

Don't know what the Harrison theme is at the moment.

Cap Cod worth a visit if you have the time.

Thanks, I have cracked the image issue...check your Modern Jazz posting. Look out internet here i come............

RH

Word is 'It's all over' at Harrison's now.

I'm still inclined to scope out the neighbourhood though & what was once Minet central once the scene had moved on from the Champs Elyses.

Mr. Richmond, as an old Squire Shop man do you have an opinion on Squire being modeled on 'Mayfair', the earlier Minet shop in Paris also set in an unrenovated Butchers?

The coincidence seems too great for me. Mr. Simons would have known all the places at the time I'm sure.

Best -

J.

Last edited by Russell_Street (2008-04-05 01:44:30)