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#1 2011-01-27 08:21:36
- Brideshead
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Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
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#2 2011-01-27 09:40:11
- Prof Kelp
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
I own Paisley scarfs, and a couple of Pailsey ties (though they got most wear back in the 80's/early 90's). Would still wear a good Paisley tie if I found one.
I once owned a great Paisley short sleeve BD back in the late 70's/1980, funny how certain pieces of clothing stay with you.
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#3 2011-01-27 09:49:37
- Harpo
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Yes - scarves and pocket squares. Also I'd like a short sleeved paisley button-down for summer wear. Deffo. a boom period look.
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#4 2011-01-27 11:34:41
- The Laird of Enfield
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Paisley's a stable.............ah'll gie ye that.
Full ay animals the place is.
#5 2011-01-27 11:39:45
- Staceyboy
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
A like paisley and use it a lot. Tootal scarves and the odd pocket square in the main. Just the right splash of colour to enliven neutral blues and greys. Strangely never ties these days although I still have some nice ones in my collection. Linked to me no longer being obliged to wear collar and tie to work no doubt. I've always been impressed by nice paisley shirts shirts in years gone by but they've never been my bag. I 'inherited' a dead-ringer for the one worn by Weller on the sleeve of "When You're Young" about ten years back but sold it on as, however much I liked the idea of it, it just wasn't me.
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#6 2011-01-27 11:42:02
- Bishop of Briggs
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Paisley is Indian and named after a Scottish town. It is no more Ivy than haggis.
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#7 2011-01-27 12:07:58
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Paisley, Foulard, Ancient Madder - All very much a part of The Look in their most muted manifestations.
#9 2011-01-27 12:42:59
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Ahhhhhh, but what is Ivy?
Americans copying the English & getting it wrong.
And adding on some bits of their own.
Polka dots are Ivy too... Most things are in some way...
Because. It's. All. Made. Up.
People who had no culture invented one.
Aping an older culture, but creating something wacky & new in the process... All those English country details on American city suits. Wearing sports shirts (the BD) as formal wear...
Ivy really doesn't exist. And yet it does.
^ This is probably the most honest & clearest thing ever said on the subject.
And you read it here!
#10 2011-01-27 12:47:54
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
... I live in a house (1763) who's very bricks & floorboards are older than the USA...
America is wonderful & so is Ivy, but it's all made up.
Nothing wrong with that.
Much of England is pure invention too. It was just invented a bit earlier.
#12 2011-01-27 14:28:59
- Patrick
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Once in a while. I find a lot of paisley ties are either too loud or too drab, the latter being worse.
I have a couple of paisley pocket squares I use fairly often. Lots of orange and green.
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#13 2011-01-27 14:37:05
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
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#14 2011-01-27 14:49:51
- Bishop of Briggs
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.
#15 2011-01-27 15:44:31
- Harpo
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
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#16 2011-01-28 06:23:01
- Cardinals5
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
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#18 2011-01-28 13:23:55
- NJS
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Paisley (from where it was developed in Scotland), derives from an ancient Middle Eastern repeat design (phonetically 'ambi' in Urdu), taken to India and Kashmir by Muslim conquest and woven onto cashmere and pashmina shawls and then taken to Britain, through the British East India Company. This is the original, simple ambi pattern:
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#19 2011-01-31 11:56:27
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
“No Room For Squares”
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#20 2011-02-01 05:42:02
- Harpo
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
^ Nice! Yes, some work - muted tones is the key - and they have to be worn casually in Summer to my mind - like a Madras.
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#21 2011-02-04 02:34:02
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
#22 2011-02-04 02:35:08
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Sorry, not paisley. Just noticed that...
#23 2011-02-04 02:43:40
- Harpo
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
Foulard's great too! Nice tie Moose - good to see you back.
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#24 2011-02-04 03:53:19
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: Paisley - is it an Ivy staple?
There was a late 50s fad for cord three piece suits with paisley linings, the vest reversible from cord to paisley.
Never turned one up in the wild, they will all have gone to The Big Wardrobe In The Sky. But I do like the idea.