Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Recent Old Ivy Finds

The Woolster · 2012-06-26 04:38:38

Thanks Oo. The cardi is a little bit too big for me, but I don't think it matters too much in this style so I'll probably keep it anyway.

The Woolster · 2012-06-26 04:42:03

And the paper rug was woven by my mom!

Yuca · 2012-08-20 02:40:17

Hi kids! Today we're going to learn about shirts.

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Yuca · 2012-08-20 02:44:22

Half sleeve:

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The Woolster · 2012-08-20 04:06:01

Lesson number two:

Chez Nobody · 2012-08-20 04:12:50

Why does NOBODY offer shirts flat-packed like that any more? That was THE American way to do it in contrast with the British approach with pins and plastic collar stays and all that malarkey. It made them look so cool - like standard issue, always correct, flat and regular and unfussy - very American!

Kingston1an · 2012-08-20 04:52:47

^ For the money the yanks pay, shirts should be packaged in a box, as used to be the custom in the UK - until it was decided the plastic wrapper was good enough.

Chez Nobody · 2012-08-20 05:09:55

Nah, shirts in Brooks Brothers, J.Press and The Ivy Shop were always flat-packed back in the day. This was part of their appeal ie.NOT British!

12BarBlues · 2012-08-20 05:17:35

JS's current shirts aren't packed flat, as far as I remember there was plastic in the collar and pins etc. Still, nice shirts and the packaging was in the bin in minutes anyway.

Chez Nobody · 2012-08-20 05:23:52

Made in Italy that's why. Flatpacking is a dying art. The old J.Simons, Ivy, Squire etc all flat-packed. It was part of being an Ivy League shirt.

One For Bop · 2012-08-20 05:33:51

If it is an unlined collar it makes sense to be flat packed, you wouldn't be spoiling anything by having them flat, where as with British shirts, with relatively strong interfaces I guess you would want a crease or bend the collars in anyway? Just thinking out loud.

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12BarBlues · 2012-08-20 05:35:49

Strange really when you think about it. It probably costs more to pack them with the plastic and pins than it does without.

farrago · 2012-08-20 05:49:38

Yuca wrote:
Hi kids! Today we're going to learn about shirts.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/NWT-Brooks-Broth … ~60_57.JPG

Wonderful finds, Yuca. Like that blazer stripe, too.

Yuca · 2012-08-20 07:40:37

Almost a shame to take the tag off the 1st 1. I wonder what year Brooks were selling Makers shirts for $48?

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Yuca · 2012-08-20 08:15:13

The Woolster wrote:
Lesson number two:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/177/se … oxford.jpg

My size too. I do like a nice pinpoint.

clyde · 2012-08-20 10:50:04

Lots of shirts come to the stores still flat packed (Gant for example), It's just that the stores then unpack them, steam them and then put them on hangers for sale. Fewer stores are just displaying them in the plastic.

Chez Nobody · 2012-08-20 11:31:49

clyde wrote:
Lots of shirts come to the stores still flat packed (Gant for example), It's just that the stores then unpack them, steam them and then put them on hangers for sale. Fewer stores are just displaying them in the plastic.

Funny that. In the Ivy shops we used to do precisely the opposite.

Sports Fan · 2012-08-22 01:21:01

Chez Nobody wrote:
Why does NOBODY offer shirts flat-packed like that any more? That was THE American way to do it in contrast with the British approach with pins and plastic collar stays and all that malarkey. It made them look so cool - like standard issue, always correct, flat and regular and unfussy - very American!

Modern men prefer buying their shirts in puffy packaging, it's been studied.

But I agree, the flat packaging has its charm!

The Thin Repp · 2012-08-28 07:37:51

Pretty excited for these. Deadstock Portsider blucher mocs. Don't know anything about Portsider, but these have real camp soles, which is what I was looking for without having to go the ever-more-expensive artisinal moc route.

12BarBlues · 2012-09-21 07:25:29

50s early 60s Brooks Brothers olive herringbone suit.

12BarBlues · 2012-09-21 07:37:54

The hook vent's an unusual detail for BB isn't it?

Yuca · 2012-09-21 09:39:39

Where did you get that? What size is it?

What's your address and when will your house be empty?

Yuca · 2012-09-21 09:50:06

I don't know if these compare, but they're all on their way to me:

Three piece suit:

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12BarBlues · 2012-09-21 10:20:06

I won it on eBay last night, it's a size 40 and cost me £140 including postage which was $65. I'm not sure I want to give you the rest of the information. That jacket looks nice. Is the tab collar chambray?

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