Yeah, the guy's got style -- I personally don't care for all of it (but who  buys the complete "package"), and with the exception of what I see as a few unfortunate quality issues, I think it's alright.

I just saw this weekend the new Press catalogue.  It seems very fresh to me.  Maybe thats because I haven't seen any of the old catalogues.  I was surprised how few items they show.  I really liked the spread on ties.

In my little dream world I imagine that the Trad pins etc help to keep the show rolling and subsidise in some strange way those items which Press still sells which I like.

Please do not ask me to explain the correlation between selling a few Trad pins & financing the making of Tweed Sacks.

... If I think too hard about these things it makes me question my faith which as we all know would be A Very Bad Thing.



Cheers!



(Off to look at velour tracksuits in my old 80's Brooks catalogues... All a part of the old curricky, don't you know.)



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Last edited by David (2008-02-11 09:43:04)

The fun they have out there!

Better lapel line too I think - Not so wide as the US offerings?

This is Trad to love. Proper Trad in the proper sense of the word. None of that silly American made-up stuff.

Sayonara, chums!

Would there still be a Press without him?

There isn't really a Brooks anymore.

Maybe he believes he can pull off a morph into a whole new customer base by an eventual complete product change.  It could be he doesn't believe the brand will be viable in America any longer unless he completely transforms its base from old preppies to something else.

It's happened before over the last 20 years (Burberry, Cadillac, A&F, Rod Stewart)

Last edited by Coolidge (2008-02-12 10:13:11)

^ Wise words.

I've made this style pretty much my life along with casual alcohol abuse and some of the finest Jazz ever known to a white bread boy.

... I also like a bit of fanny too...

I saw Brooks go. Chipp & The Crimson Shop also went whilst I was looking the other way. I could see Press go too.

I alone will go on with a handful of mates picked up from wherever.

It matters not.

I don't believe that "Trad" actually exists in its AAAT form. There is a thing called "Trad" and it is glorious - But it is in Japan.

In England there is the old Ivy League style kept alive in one shop in London.

In Paris there is a loose group of old friends who meet in Le Zephyr for drinks wearing Sebagos and Brooks shirts.

America has all the history & tradition of this style, but you don't see it on the Internet. All you see are middle-managers playing dress-up & getting all the details wrong.

Press does what it does. Pick & choose. Buy with care.

The "American Trad" dream does exist... Chaps in old loafers meeting for drinks and swapping informed gossip about mutual friends... But do you think they'd even say Hello to the Virginian Yankee 'Harris' or the self-styled Tennessee 'Squire'? Or to an Evangelical Lay preacher from the Backwoods?

Do you really think that the world is like that?

Dream on.


Cheers!

Last edited by David (2008-02-12 11:14:08)

The OP wants to talk about Press.
But David talks on and on about Trad.
Are they the same thing or not?