Gone_to_Gowings wrote:

Paris Blues (1961)
Paul Newman , Joanne Woodward , Sidney Poitier , Diahann Carroll , Louis Armstrong and a throng of watchable French extras esp. in the cellar club scenes.

This one movie inspired my whole look when I first saw it around 1982. Bad movie (the jazz is too dated for the story) but great clothes...

The Weejun wrote:

This one movie inspired my whole look when I first saw it around 1982.

I can see why, Weejun. Newman's wardrobe in particular has a consistent , spare integrity.   

I think Julien Temple took some inspiration from this film as well.  When I saw the studio-shot street scene outside the club in Paris Blues :

I immediately thought of the Soho street scenes in the flawed 'Absolute Beginners'.

The Paris Blues film is interesting in that style wise, it's timeless, Poitier and Newman still look inspiringly cool today and always will.  A good era to be in Paris and digging jazz, Quincy Jones was there in 1960 with his financially disasterous but musically inspired big band, except they dressed like 1920's gangsters on stage. Opened up in Amsterdam and then folded in Paris three months later totally bankrupt. Still, didn't keep Quincy down. And Paris? Its not the same. We glimpse the future when Bresson started to take photos of those spiritless suburbs in around 1970, he sent a warning and it still reverberates today.

Making Absolute Beginners as a musical was a mistake, there's some serious stuff in there, about building magnates, the powerful changes happening in Englabd and the power of youth and how it is attempted to be subverted and neutered by money and old fogeys.  It deserves to be honestly made, the whole trilogy, perhaps in a BBC adaptation, by the producer and director of Our Friends Up North.

Colin MacInnes is too important for today's kids not to pick up on.

Watching this movie when I was 16 in 1982 made me seek out my first pair of flat front grey worsteds from FLIP covent garden. That look was so subtle when everyone was wearing pleats or pegs that I felt self concious wearing them with my sero shirt and weejuns, like i was a mormon who wasn't interested in clothes or something...

a real potboiler based on the rags to riches to rags story of a kerouac type played by James Franciscus...

where are all these movies now? TCM I guess....

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The Procrastinator wrote:

Caught the original pilot for Columbo a few weeks ago, filmed '67 I think, featuring a far less dischevelled Peter Falk than in the subsequent series, looking Ivy-ish in Bucks

Yes, with a killer jazz score by Dave Grusin. After that movie Columbo always wore pair of ankle boots of such grubbiness that hard to know if suede or leather. He quite dapper in that first one.

Hard Bop Hank wrote:

I really dig surf movies, flics such as "Endless Summer"

The stuff this forum makes you do. On Hank's recommendation, I just spent 10 minutes of my life looking at half nekkid young men.


Some amazing skills though, in wonderful colours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmudLnEV … re=related

These movies, I have to admit, though, they're more Americana than Ivy Style...

Where's Mike?

All this talk of surfin' made me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow

Have you heard? The bird is the word.

sure is!

Hard Bop Hank wrote:

These movies, I have to admit, though, they're more Americana than Ivy Style...

Where's Mike?

Married life is keeping him busy, but he's very happy & well.

Hard Bop Hank wrote:

right, Papa Oom Mow Mow... it's not really sampled, is it

.....more like given a good kicking, I'd say

Walk Don't Run (1966)

Set in Tokyo during the 1964 Olympics , stars Cary Grant, Jim Hutton, Samantha Eggar, John Standing.  Soundtrack by Quincy Jones , but it's no "In The Heat of The Night".

As the romantic leads Hutton and Eggar manage to make the screen fizzle with unresolved sexual inertia.  The big deal here is Jim Hutton's wardrobe throughout.

Grant as an English industrialist, who describes himself as "half-American", in three-piece with 3/2 roll. Costumes designed by Morton Haack who went on to do 'Planet of The Apes'.








3 buttons , not two as it may seem here. A blazer patch worn in Japan that actually has a relevant context ?






A British Embassy in Tokyo official (John Standing) wears a 3/2 roll !








I know what you're thinking : Is it a Hanes , Reis, Jockey or Fruit of The Loom ?




After buckle-back chinos and buckle-back Ivy caps, what next ?

My pleasure. Glad you liked it.