Thick, chunky colour-flecked, 'WS Manson & Co.' sweaters, hand-knitted in the Shetland Isles.

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I've only one 'Par-Ex of New Haven' left & I just checked the label - 'Made in the Dominican Republic!'
A lovely soft roll OCBD from around 1987 I think.
How JS found all this stuff is the great thing.
Sheer enthusiasm I guess.

Good idea actually -
A roll call of all the greats:

'Walk-Over' is my next contribution. Bucks & Saddle-Bucks with that Brick-Red rubber sole.

The great man used to sell Alden cordovan plain caps, wing-tips and the classic penny I recall. £200 in 1988. Wish I'd bought 2 pairs of each and gone without food for a month.

Troy Guild shirts were phenomenal. The best. It's almost unbearable to think that an Oxford cloth US button-down has never and almost certainly will never be made like that again.

I loved the Walkover buckle-boots. Not strictly Ivy, but weirdly compelling, and great with proper Levis.

Halrin chinos and cords. The perfect Ivy silhouette.

Haspel poplins and wash n'wears. So so American. They were actually almost unwearable even in London. They just looked strange because the cut was so uncompromisingly different.

He was the first to get in BD Baggies when they were Made in USA. Along with Ian in the Ivy Shop. I remember they hated them because of the two lines of stitching on the collar which they thought broke all of the Ivy rules regarding softness and subtlety. Looking back they produced some nice stuff, particularly in madras.

Those fabulous, absolutely perfect Ivy sports jackets and blazers made by Linett, with the U.S. Union stamp inside. All half-lined and so soft. Very sophisticated clothing for a prole from Liverpool like yours truly. Discovering this stuff was a heady experience. Talking of blazers, can you? I mean haven't they become a little naff? In the 80s when I was in my 20s I used to live in them but now people would point in the street I think. Maybe they did back then.

There was a wonderful Walkover suede chukka with red buck style soles that I though just reeked of a certain kind of 1962 Flamingo cool. JS tells me he may be getting in a similar kind of thing again soon. Made in England rather than US but, hey, that's fine. Better than Vietnam or El Salvador, fine though their shoe-making traditions are.

There must be more like this but I'll have to dig deep. More later perhaps.

I've got a Slate Grey Haspel poplin from the old Harvard Coop ('80's again) - A very, very Ivy cut, you're right.
One day when I'm organised I want to get it copied in various different materials. I guess George in Harringay would be the man for that.
It was a suit that used to really confuse & bug people because it looked so different. Was it square? Was it Hip? What was going in with it? And that 3 to 2 lapel roll REALLY used to make people frown in London.
So funny!

Idle question:

Halrin & Linett have never featured on the AAAT roll of honour to my patchy knowledge.
Any input here from the US?

London Ivy League seems to have 'The Look' from so many sources,
American 'Trad' just sticks to those few big names that we all know...

Why's dat den?

tel.

What of Botany 500?

Lucille de Paris made nice leather articles in exotic hides. They used to come with a card explaining how to use Simonitz car polish to care for your item.

And I imagine that we are talking about the days when Ivy was everywhere in the U.S.?

Mid-budget, Department store Trad!

Ivy for Everyone!