Not sure that's ever happened here has it?  Good faith, I hope, is respected here.

Come here to troll and things get a bit odd, but good faith is to be encouraged in my book.

Best,

Ah've never heard ay Steve Alexander?

A good move by Dave Walker at this stage of the game.

It only originated in 'Banter' to be top of the forum a while back.

It's established enough now to go where it belongs.

NewMan grew out of Minet...

Ivy League 2010?

http://corpo.newman.fr/en/

I don't think so! Nice girl, but I wouldn't look at the bloke's clothes and think that's Ivy... H&M is more Ivy.

was linetyes a minet? or a completely different genus of i-net?

Did I say I was going home?

We've had Omelettes and Brandy for breakfast & are now heading out -

http://autocratatthebrunchtable.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/omelette_full.jpg

http://popularemails.com/images/accidentalinventions/brandy-glass.jpg


I'll get back later.

When I do I'll check with Chenoune on New Man - The best so far in print on Minet - Which I been through word by word with Levi (with much of it on tape).  C. is good, but Levi, an orignal Minet, adds all the real flavour.

- Now there's a book that needs writing!


Later -

Greetings from the Primrose Cafe!

A misty day in BS8 today. Elaine has had her hair cut while I was away and now looks like a very naughty little pixie.

So far today we have played knock & run and gone shopping for johnny bags for her while she waited around the corner outside the chemists. I find all this hugely endearing in my avuncular way...

But - Back to work:

I have Chenoune here with me along with my Danish & frothy coffee - And a heavy bastard of a book to lug around it is too what with my bad back and all...

New Man - originally it was two words  - opened 13/04/65 (very late in Minet terms) on Rue de L'Ancienne Comedie by Bernard Dukan & Pierre Seran and (according to Chenoune) was the first boutique to sell 'used but clean American garments off the rack' - Bullshit, says Levi, they were only the first to commercialise this long standing trade with a 'boutique'. They also 'lost it' when they became a fashion brand in '66 with their copies of the Levi Cord Jean (again says Levi).

The New Man cords imagined that they 'improved on the Levi cut with their 'explosion' of colours and low rise, flared line - Bullshit, says Levi - The classic Levis cut remained the classic for those in touch with style. The new New Man stuff was for kids.

New Man did indeed originally price their stuff in dollars (Adam Magazine, June '65) and the boys in the shop all wore Bermuda Shorts during that first Summer of trading.

Then they 'sold out and sold more' (Levi, again) when they became a 'silly' fashion brand.

Original stock at New Man in '65 was Levi Cords, Blue and White OCBDs, FOTL White Ts, informs Chenoune. Levi says that you only really went there for the Levis, which were hard to get. The rest, if you knew Paris, you could get better & cheaper elsewhere, which was just what the Faces had been doing since '62, if not before.

Adam Magazine noted in Spetember of '64 that 'The Champs-Elysees from Le Drugstore to the Renault pub looks like the campus of an American University'.

^ New Man came very late to the game and then quickly moved on into pop fashions.


We really do need a proper book on the Ivy League look in France ... Eh, Mr. Chensvold?

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