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#1 2008-07-29 07:14:50

Taylor McIntyre
Son of Ivy...
Posts: 342

Ivy Icon: The G4.

Interesting:     http://www.baracuta-g9.com/v2/shop/view_product.php?id=721

Regular:          http://www.baracuta-g9.com/v2/shop/view_product.php?id=223


Nothing wrong with the G9. The G4 is just that bit less obvious.

J.

 

#2 2008-07-29 07:39:55

Fred
Member
Posts: 321

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

Interestingly, I recently bought and returned the Japanese Ivory G4 - fit just a little too snugly.  I have a regular G4 in natural that I end up wearing a little more than my G9s.  Definately a bit less obvious.  I really like the details (button sleeves etc) on the G4 and find it a slightly smarter alternative to the G9.  Hard to beat with heavy (Paraboot/Trickers/Suede chukka) footwear.

 

#3 2008-07-29 09:08:35

Speas
Member
Posts: 61

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

I've tried a couple times over the past year to buy a G4 from the baracuta shop - the online shop shows they have size 46 but they dont have stock.  I guess I'll have to slum it in my G9.

 

#4 2008-07-29 11:34:31

Fred
Member
Posts: 321

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

Might be worth a phone call - they sometimes have things in stock that the website indicates otherwise.....

 

#5 2008-07-29 12:37:31

Staceyboy
Ivy Archivist
Posts: 936

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

Hello. Apologies to all for using my first post to have a moan, but surely Baracuta owe it to the great John Simon not to re-dub him 'JOHN RICHMOND' in big bold letters on their timeline 60's webpage. Tut tut.
All the best,
Staceyboy


http://thetownoutside.tumblr.com

 

#6 2008-07-29 12:44:35

Staceyboy
Ivy Archivist
Posts: 936

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

...or for me to dub him 'Simon' rather than Simons for that matter! Oh dear.


http://thetownoutside.tumblr.com

 

#7 2008-07-29 13:43:58

Speas
Member
Posts: 61

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

 

#8 2008-07-30 00:40:21

Taylor McIntyre
Son of Ivy...
Posts: 342

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

 

#9 2008-08-08 06:16:01

Alex Roest
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From: The Hague, The Netherlands
Posts: 2165

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

This is a G9 but I absolutely love the colour, don't think I ever saw one ? ( not on anybody's back anyway ) :

http://www.stuartslondon.com/product/Light%20Jackets%20-%20Coats/Baracuta/Slimfit%20harrington%20G9%20BN/#

 

#10 2008-08-08 09:40:07

Get Smart
Member
Posts: 1106

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

^^^ the website call it "cobalt blue", which I've never heard of.  Looks like the "navy" blue (as opposed to the classic dark navy) which isnt a dark navy but more like, cobalt.

 

#11 2008-08-10 16:22:00

dempsey
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Posts: 60

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

 

#12 2010-10-11 15:09:07

Rip Rig & Panic
Member
Posts: 4697

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

Bump.  I like my London Fog.

 

#13 2010-10-11 23:30:28

Taylor McIntyre
Son of Ivy...
Posts: 342

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

A Strachan fave. Wear it in good health.

And what of the Wind Cheater? Just a hip length Zipper Jacket with an ordinnary collar?

And the Warm Up Jacket?  Ditto the above in Nylon.

Maybe the jacket that makes less of a 'statement' makes more of a statement?


There is a sense that various Zipper jackets & THE Shoes are the keys to the off-duty look... Maybe?

Ivy Americana and all that.

 

#14 2010-10-12 01:58:25

Rip Rig & Panic
Member
Posts: 4697

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

London Fog tends to be severe old man stuff: as opposed to reckless youth.  'Wind Cheaters' were worn by children whose parents could not afford to buy them anything warmer.  Warm-up jackets tend to look cheap and horrible.  A few American made examples turned up recently in a local charity shop.  Interestingly, they did not hang around long.  The McGregor Drizzler is still a key jacket; still relatively unknown.  The Anti-Freeze has a touch of mard-arse James Dean about it.  Find one if you can.

 

#15 2010-10-14 07:46:15

Rip Rig & Panic
Member
Posts: 4697

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

Just received a very handsome G4 from Staceyboy.  100% cotton, English made navy Baracuta.  Could have been made to order.

 

#16 2010-11-08 06:48:13

fxh
Big Down Under.
From: Melbourne
Posts: 6159

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

I just realised that I used to have 3 or 4 jackets that looked like the Slim fit G4.  I had no idea they had a name or some status.

Mine were just cheap and cheerful ones I picked up here because I liked a light jacket for summer if it got a bit cool to wear with chinos etc.

I'd like to pick up a tan/beige one and a navy one but the prices I see on that Baracuta site look way too much for the thing I'm after.

Is there other places that sell similar stuff? Or a few brands?

 

#17 2010-11-08 07:35:57

Rip Rig & Panic
Member
Posts: 4697

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

I like London Fog.

 

#18 2010-11-08 08:23:19

Kingstonian
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From: sea to shining sea
Posts: 3205

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

Drizzler jackets may suit. They were available cheap until recently:-

http://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod1208157

 

#19 2010-11-08 09:39:48

SubtleCool
Ivy, but subtle with it.
Posts: 289

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

I like me Grenfell


Me? Conspicuous? Lady, I'm the invisible man.

 

#20 2010-11-08 20:41:52

fxh
Big Down Under.
From: Melbourne
Posts: 6159

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

 

#21 2021-09-24 05:53:59

A Fine Sadness
Member
Posts: 3009

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

Try as I might I cannot remember that jacket, although I remember wearing the London Fog in March 2012.  They were (are still, I suppose) okay for pissing about in: buying jazz and having a sandwich and a couple of beers.  If I saw one cheap in, say, 'grubby olive' (I rather like that) I might be tempted - so long as they were still around the £20 mark!  Wouldn't mind a London Fog raincoat as remembered from the old black and white ad.  Didn't it feature a rather hard-looking chap straddling a VW or something of the kind?  Yup, Anglo-Ivy.  Maybe the best example, maybe not.

 

#22 2021-09-26 03:41:26

An Unseen Scene
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From: Nottingham, UK
Posts: 1275

Re: Ivy Icon: The G4.

Grenfell. Got two and after more. Became my go to choice jackets. Good quality and available in a modern (just not baggy) fit.  Nice to support the factory.

 

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