I just re-read it and can't see that '66.

Nothing wrong with that if it was just a statement, but he's quoting my post, so he must be talking about picking up on details as being silly. I can't really read that any other way. Otherwise why quote me?

/\ Me paranoid...who said that, come on who said it, I know someone said it!!!!!!!!


No, just wasn't sure how it read, therefore clarifying. I wouldn't respond when there is ambiguity.

PK

I think we should include welding coats as "ivy" . they have that cool rigid  fabric like old staprest (but all natural cotton to inhibit melting onto skin and satisfy purists), minimalist single breasted styling, slim lapels, industrial seafoam green color that wouldnt look out of place in an old LL Bean catalog....whats not more to like? and, i have an extra one ill sell someone! and plenty more where that came from...

I don't know if it was this thread or another that suggested Pointer Bros. stuff, but it's absolute crap quality.    Made in America, for sure, but that's about it. 

Funny enough, and I know me Uncle Jimmy will like this, apparently sewn in the same town as the eye doc resides.

theyre a non-union company from the deep south. the same logic is behind "american made" toyotas. US sweatshops are still sweatshops. as far as I'm concerned it may as well be made somewhere else.

-as far as im concerned, until i see proof to the contrary anything operating without union protection in the south is a sweatshop, because its allowed to be. those factories that japanese car manufacturers built down there have twice the accident and twice the FATALITIES of "inefficient" car manufacturers in the north (which are the most productive car plants in the world, its so much easier to blame the guys who have nothing to do with banking, marketing, etc. however).

-nonunion employers can charge just a hair under union shops while paying the employees less than half of scale. that pushes the overall cost of labor up, making it better for small independent shopowners.

-unions do make it better for all workers by pushing through workplace regulations and elitist, layabout things like the 40 hr. work week (which is now slipping in the US with the decline of unions, the opposite of the rest of the civilized world).

-if you want to talk about mediocrity and laziness, hit an "independent" job where everyone is stoned and/or hiding due to the fact that there are no drug tests and the job isnt worth keeping anyway.

Last edited by shamrockmonkey (2010-03-24 21:19:15)

Ivy and Americana....

Where's the line?

Jeans, T-shirts, sweat shirts, sneakers, Pendletons, work boots etc... aren't Ivy League clothes strictly speaking, but hey, they definitely belong here, don't they...

'Americana' is a better phrase than 'Work Wear' perhaps.  I've hung onto bits: like a Woolrich half-zip I wear in the winter, mostly around the house.  It's only a question of adaptation really, isn't it? - adopting or co-opting a certain item makes it 'Ivy' (or 'sub-Ivy'?)  I do like chambray.

I do not think I would wear a chambray jacket.  I once had a US sailors' jacket, but my wife advised me not to expose myself to ridicule.

Last edited by Republican Party Reptile (2011-08-30 06:13:35)

^ Top post.