"The Ivy-look is a form of cowardice...." according to Tallulah Bankhead. Mind you, she also said "Cocaine's not addictive. I should know, I've been taking it for 20 years", so perhaps her grasp on reality may have been a little wonky.
More intriguing posts from HBH, especially the Paris one.
I like the ad man's comment above "ILL will hold firm against the side-vented glumness of the BCL (British Continental Look) and remain in favor along canny Madison Avenue where nobody cares to compete with colorful client plumage."
JS always told me this was taken at the Ivy Shop Christmas staff outing at Butlins circa 1967/8.
GG
Didn't the guy behind John Lally run or own 'Quincy' ? There was one in the King's Road and another one in Brewer Street, I know it was a long time ago and the brain matter isn't what it was but I'm sure he did.
Didn't we have a colour version?
Somehow I think that JS was wearing a bright red cardigan, a white shirt and blue jeans on that photo...
Last edited by Hard Bop Hank (2011-04-13 11:32:11)
Last edited by Hard Bop Hank (2011-04-13 11:48:09)
to get away from the parochial topics...
some great stuff from Carpu:
http://forums.filmnoirbuff.com/viewtopic.php?id=7856
IL over the decades
Going on from the Chetmiles thread :
Picking up Lally and his bicycle, a little worse for wear in Richmond one night and taking him back to Isleworth ...... Catching some burly geezers on Richmond Bridge with a mannequin full of gear and arms full of clothes from the shop window that they'd just smashed and having a punch up trying to get all the clothes back ... John Simons, turning up with the window smashed and a few of us having coffees until the window guy turns up at 2 in the morning, then giving us twenty quids worth of clothes for catching them (which was a lot at the time) .... Standing outside Hill Rise since 8.45 until 10 am and still no one turns up, to open the shop up, drinking with the girls in the hairdressers across the road ...... going to the Victoria on saturday lunchtime with Ian Strachan for a pint and cheese roll ... Oh halcyon days
These are the stories to be recorded, Mike. Last time I dropped your name to them both JS & IS spoke very well of you. I must see Mr. Lally again soon at the new HQ...
Remember Scottish Roger?
(If I've remembered his name right... !)