Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Recent Old Ivy Finds

The Woolster · 2012-03-30 03:14:30

^ Has it arrived yet H? Looks very nice.

The Woolster · 2012-03-30 03:19:33

I'm not really the blazer type, but I decided to give it a go with this summer weight jacket:

I haven't got it yet, but I figured it could be worn in a youthfull fashion, but without looking like an overgrown schoolboy

Any suggestions? I don't want to pair it with denim.

The Thin Repp · 2012-03-30 05:03:16

The Woolster wrote:
I'm not really the blazer type, but I decided to give it a go with this summer weight jacket:

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/253/blueblazer.jpg

I haven't got it yet, but I figured it could be worn in a youthfull fashion, but without looking like an overgrown schoolboy

Any suggestions? I don't want to pair it with denim.

Swap out the brass blazer buttons for white or smoked mother-of-pearl.

The Woolster · 2012-03-30 07:16:31

Yeah, I might try that if it doesn't work with the original buttons. Thanks.

Harpo · 2012-03-30 07:26:47

The Woolster wrote:
I'm not really the blazer type, but I decided to give it a go with this summer weight jacket:

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/253/blueblazer.jpg

I haven't got it yet, but I figured it could be worn in a youthfull fashion, but without looking like an overgrown schoolboy

Any suggestions? I don't want to pair it with denim.

I'd try that with some grey sta-press slacks, a white shirt and a dark knit tie.

12BarBlues · 2012-03-30 07:48:27

The Woolster wrote:
I'm not really the blazer type, but I decided to give it a go with this summer weight jacket:

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/253/blueblazer.jpg

I haven't got it yet, but I figured it could be worn in a youthfull fashion, but without looking like an overgrown schoolboy

Any suggestions? I don't want to pair it with denim.

Very nice, I like the idea of white buttons. Mine hasn't arrived yet. I've been after a tweed Brooks brothers tweed jacket in herringbone for ages, just a pity it's not grey.

The Thin Repp · 2012-03-30 08:09:01

12BarBlues wrote:
The Woolster wrote:
I'm not really the blazer type, but I decided to give it a go with this summer weight jacket:

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/253/blueblazer.jpg

I haven't got it yet, but I figured it could be worn in a youthfull fashion, but without looking like an overgrown schoolboy

Any suggestions? I don't want to pair it with denim.
Very nice, I like the idea of white buttons. Mine hasn't arrived yet. I've been after a tweed Brooks brothers tweed jacket in herringbone for ages, just a pity it's not grey.

What size are you?

12BarBlues · 2012-03-30 08:34:05

The Thin Repp wrote:
12BarBlues wrote:
The Woolster wrote:
I'm not really the blazer type, but I decided to give it a go with this summer weight jacket:

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/253/blueblazer.jpg

I haven't got it yet, but I figured it could be worn in a youthfull fashion, but without looking like an overgrown schoolboy

Any suggestions? I don't want to pair it with denim.
Very nice, I like the idea of white buttons. Mine hasn't arrived yet. I've been after a tweed Brooks brothers tweed jacket in herringbone for ages, just a pity it's not grey.
What size are you?

39/40 a 21" pit to pit is spot on.

The Woolster · 2012-03-30 10:43:45

Harpo wrote:
The Woolster wrote:
I'm not really the blazer type, but I decided to give it a go with this summer weight jacket:

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/253/blueblazer.jpg

I haven't got it yet, but I figured it could be worn in a youthfull fashion, but without looking like an overgrown schoolboy

Any suggestions? I don't want to pair it with denim.
I'd try that with some grey sta-press slacks, a white shirt and a dark knit tie.

Yes, that would work beautifully Harpo. Although I was maybe thinking about something more... slouchy. But does this go too much against the grain, the idea of a blazer? Oh well, I guess I'll just have to see when I get it.

The Thin Repp · 2012-03-30 12:31:51

What CAN'T you wear with gray slacks, white shirt and dark knit tie?

Harpo · 2012-03-31 02:41:08

The Thin Repp wrote:
What CAN'T you wear with gray slacks, white shirt and dark knit tie?

Swimming trunks, flippers and a Darth Vader helmet.

Liam Mac · 2012-04-04 05:34:25

A first for me. A bleeding madras square end Rooster.

Last edited by Liam Mac (2012-04-04 05:36:18)

Oo Bop Sh'bam · 2012-04-04 05:38:27

Boom!

Oo Bop Sh'bam · 2012-04-04 06:42:30

Monkey see, monkey do. Well, kind of, TJ was nice enough to hold this. Small conciliation for running out of money and not being able to get the madras jacket off Zach.

The Woolster · 2012-04-04 07:14:37

They're both super nice!

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Liam Mac · 2012-04-04 12:03:55

That's really interesting Bop. It's wool I take it? Rooster?

Oo Bop Sh'bam · 2012-04-04 12:08:34

Yeah it's an all wool Pips one by Rooster. 2.5'' on the X-axis, 55'' on the Y

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Liam Mac · 2012-04-04 12:11:52

Nice. It's prepster style for sure, but the kind that I could definitely live with.

Liam Mac · 2012-04-15 19:03:03

I'm being kept awake by a dreadful nagging cough so I decided to cheer myself up by buying yet another Rooster.

This is just what I've been looking for, for wearing with my madras jacket in Summer... I think we are due to have one this year or the next.

colin · 2012-05-03 17:29:17

Here's something you don't find every day (at least I don't). A beautiful 'Brooks Brothers University Shop' white-label bleeding madras sack jacket. 3/2 with I'd say notably slim lapels for a Brooks. Shoulders with the faintest of padding, practically nothing - this must be boom years era?

The photo is awful as on my camera phone, but will take some better snaps soon, if anyone's interested?
May well be up for sale, if I can bring myself to sell it, as it's a 40 reg rather than a 40 long...

Last edited by colin (2012-05-03 18:19:56)

Oliver · 2012-05-03 19:34:03

Nice find... Speaking of Brooks and lapel width, has anyone ever attempted to narrow the lapels on a vintage 3/2?

My tailor actually proposed this with a recent vintage haul I took in, knowing the early sixties ivy cut I usually lean towards, but I was worried about screwing up the proportions of the jacket. I've got a few '60s Brooks with lapels straight from the future decade, and I'm thinking of bringing them in for a trim! Is it sacrilege to mess with this on a vintage 3/2 sack? I'm pretty confident in my alterations tailor...

noblesurfer · 2012-05-04 01:05:14

hey Oli whos your tailor in mtl? PM if info is secret.

Axelist · 2012-05-04 01:37:58

Oliver wrote:
Nice find... Speaking of Brooks and lapel width, has anyone ever attempted to narrow the lapels on a vintage 3/2?

My tailor actually proposed this with a recent vintage haul I took in, knowing the early sixties ivy cut I usually lean towards, but I was worried about screwing up the proportions of the jacket. I've got a few '60s Brooks with lapels straight from the future decade, and I'm thinking of bringing them in for a trim! Is it sacrilege to mess with this on a vintage 3/2 sack? I'm pretty confident in my alterations tailor...

From all I know this is major operation. Most tailors I know refused to do it, because it is against their ethos, does not work on each jacket (ruins the cut etc.) and is a lot of work and thus expensive. Good luck. Maybe they wanted just to get rid of me. I understand that.

Oliver · 2012-05-04 02:13:54

noblesurfer wrote:
hey Oli whos your tailor in mtl? PM if info is secret.

No secret at all... H. Padar on Ste Catherine O.

It's a somewhat hidden doorway in a lovely old building sandwiched between the loud obnoxious commerce of the main strip.

https://www.facebook.com/HPadar

Hossein is a master of his craft. A proficient, hard working gent, and all around fine fella who's been in the biz for over 40 years and in the family trade far longer.

He's the best around!

The Thin Repp · 2012-05-04 13:34:13

I found this 1950s paisley shirt from Langrock of Princeton, which some consider to be the Ivy-est of the campus shops. Apparently, not only did they adopt Brooks' use of the term "Polo" for a button-down collar, but they also called it a "Rube Polo." I've looked for other definitions of 'rube' but so far all I have found is this:
"rube [roob] noun Informal . an unsophisticated person from a rural area; hick."

Perhaps an early example of hipster irony in branding? Or am I just a rube?

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