http://www.ivy-style.com/ivy-style-opening-night-party.html
Let me be the first to say:
Chenners @#&$#@@ ! CC%@#$&$#@%@&% ! They look like @$#@%&$@#! and Chinny Chins looks like #@$%&%#@$ !
But Jason Jules looks good.
The forced smile on Richard Press says it all really. Loved the 1920s outfits though.
And we know now what David Mercer looks like. A nice knitted tie, right up my street that.
There's something about a striped knitted tie isn't there? Not quite eccentric, but marks you as an individual in tune with the boom period.
Mr. Mercer gets 'best dressed' great look, not over the top, n' not under cooked either!
It is his Hasty Pudding Club tie. One-upmanship lives!
Chenners has one hell of a hairline!!!!!!!
Mr. Mercer, also gets my coveted, 'Best Haircut Award'
Richard Press is wearing a wig isn't he?
He's dying to look younger !
J.
Aren’t we all love! Unfortunately time stands still for no man and i for one think becoming a “silver Fox” with grace and style is one of the few advantages age has over youth.
My Rosh Hashanah beard is so silver I keep searching for the hallmark...
J.
LOL Just found an interesting fact regarding this Jim. I must tell the wife as she’s one of your lot.
“This mitzvah only applies to men. Women, even if they have facial hair, are allowed to shave”.
Comparing those shots with the JS Hollywood book launch, the two different interpretations of the look become quite apparent. I'll be sticking with Limey-Ivy.
On second look I'd say bad wig.
From The_Slacker "Comparing those shots with the JS Hollywood book launch, the two different interpretations of the look become quite apparent. I'll be sticking with Limey-Ivy."
I agree entirely and this is supported by the book. I guess we bring a different sensibility to it in the UK, less academic and rooted in USA society and more stimulated by aspects of popular culture. Of course many might quite rightly disagree if their inspiration is different but I can only speak personally and observe similar inclinations here.
There's a whole layer that doesn't connect with me in USA Ivy style which rather than being a 'radical conformist' makes me feel like a 'subversive unconformist'. I enjoy this aspect and ask myself 'if Ivy Style had remained the preserve of the universities and old money origins would I be interested in it?' and the answer is definitely not. It's the links through jazz, film, modernism etc that stimulate me as a palette for progression by those who aren't born to it. I don't pretend any credibility through association with the style or have a desire to brush with those others would have perceived above me in society, I'm happy to make my own way.
In a small pocket book somehow this came across intuitively in 'The Ivy Look' but the 'Ivy Style' book while excellent is a different ethos, it's the source that Marsh, Gaul, John Simons and our own Jim drew from and which has grown from this central stem into an interesting new branch of its own. It is a purely stylistic evolution not one that is concerned on the whole with the wider social aspects and this liberates it to become something distinct. The 'Ivy Style' book is interesting as history not as guide.
This is just one man's opinion, I'm Ron Burgundy. Stay classy Ivy Stylists
Last edited by MarkCoyle (2012-09-16 08:13:17)
Really? It made me want to slit my throat? It sounds so precious.
I think Zach sometimes appears to be fed up with this battle of authenticity, and I'm beginning to feel the same it's really just noise, a sideshow. These guys in New York are caught up in the zeitgeist, and we here are probably no different but with a different ideal. I think it is all by the by, and just becomes about bolstering yourself, more than the clothes themselves.
The only person I see that is really being authentic, imaginative and remaining current is Oliver, but you don't hear mission statements out the guy, where as Mark is blowing hot air, and then talking about the relative quality of TM Lewin buttondowns, I've had a few TM shirts, and they're rubbish, and for the same price you can pick up a Makers on etsy with still more than enough life let in it.
I'm just seeing a lot of BS going on here.
PS. Chens would've been a nob in whatever interest he undertook.
My Grandfather's Pants - I can only be who I am, precious and all. We're all here to put up views and discuss them, so I do. With Jim gone for now I thought it was worth stimulating a bit of discussion.
Slitting your throat might be a bit over the top and there's good people here in the forum who do it for free if you need it.
Love the 'tache. Movember soon everyone. Not sure if there is an 'Ivy facial hair' thread in the archives