It's a nice shirt, too.  I have several like it: mostly Brooks and a B.D.Baggie.

Is it university stripe?  Or is it candy stripe?  I never know, quite.  I seem to recall Frosty making quite a production number out of this stripe and that.  I fancy my (one and only) Mercer shirt is a butcher stripe.  I could well be mistaken.

Ah.  Thanks, Tim.  Of course, one is used to seeing John Simons routinely referred to as Mod/Skin/Ska/Oi/Merc/Oi Polloi/Suedehead etc.  Even, on occasion, 'Ivy' or 'Ivy League'.  In fact, I'm thinking of removing from my tired mind all notions of any such thing and telling myself that sometimes - more often than not - I wear American clothing (or 'American clothing') - as is the case now, with a Troy Guild button-down beneath a Russell Athletic sweatshirt and Levis.  Tomorrow, though, I'm half expecting through the mail that John Molloy crew-neck (and the MJQs 'Lonely Woman')...