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#1 2009-04-12 04:10:20
- chetmiles
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Cricketeer
I'm in complete ignorance. Only found out about it trawling for old Miles memorabilia on the Bay. Bought a nice ad from Australia for a couple of their dollars.
Anyone know it?
#3 2009-04-12 17:21:30
- bandofoutsiders
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Re: Cricketeer
I do love that whenever a vintage question comes up my name gets mentioned.
Cricketeer made great Ivy stuff with all the right details. Not sure if the quality was up to par with the Press of the day, but the styling is spot on. My favorite tweed sack is a Cricketeer. The label reads "Cricketeer: created for and by young men." They tended toward the more Jivy Ivy end of things, with suits cut slimmer and shorter. Also in more adventurous fabrics. I've seen copper sharkskin sacks by Cricketeer, as well as moss green three-pieces.
#4 2009-04-13 01:24:12
- Just Jim
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Re: Cricketeer
"Jivy Ivy"!
- From a Jazz term for nonsense or even crap.
The dance known as the Jive got its name by better dancers seeing it & dismissing it as 'jive'.
'Jivy Ivy' was thus named by more informed dressers to saw the new hybrid styles being introduced and either dismissed them as crap or equally took them up with just the same strength of feeling and all the usual playful irony which has always attended movements in fashion.
'Jivy Ivy' as a term is directly Black in origin.
#5 2009-04-13 01:59:15
- chetmiles
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Re: Cricketeer
The ad I bought is great: a couple finding their seats in a concert hall, the man having been advised to dress for the occasion, i.e. in Cricketeer, and not to overfill the pockets of the jacket (unlike John Simons' chum down at the Lyceum!). Miles features in the top left hand corner. Could be one for framing.
Nice bit of teamwork there, chaps: JJ, BoO; many thanks.
#6 2022-01-14 08:36:59
- A Fine Sadness
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Re: Cricketeer
^ I'll be jiggered if I know what happened to that ad. Doesn't ring any bells at all now. I guess I didn't bother getting it behind glass.
TRS mentioned buying a Cricketeer jacket only a day or two ago. They look good for the money on Ebay Com.
What the deuce happened to BOO?