I have had a quick glance through the book. The music tastes are not mine so I am not qualified to comment. I was hoping for more information and discussion. The list of blogs is surprisingly short.

The list of current brands and retailers listed at the back are the "usual suspects". I expected to see Allen Edmonds, Southwick and Hickey Freeman on it. Crockett & Jones and Sanders deserved to be included because they offer many Ivy style and shell cordovan shoes. Can anyone tell why the book considers John Smedley knitwear to be Ivy? I also expected to see more retailers, e.g. Eljo's, listed.

Overall, to be honest, a bit of a disappointment.

Smedley is easeir to understand than LL Bean sold Clarks shoes being ITK when it comes to THE LOOK in the US.

Check the 'Trads' - they love Barbour - F. all to do with Ivy. Ever!

Last edited by Russell_Street (2010-11-19 17:05:02)

Indeed it is an art book: subjective, sumptous and casting shadows and light. I keep mine next to Marsh's album cover books, Claxton's Chet Baker and Steve McQueen photo books and next to them a copy of Robert Franks 'The Americans'.

LOL!

S'pose I should fight my corner too...

I wasn't 'just kidding' at all - Never said I was - I was trying to 'pull the tiger's tail', a very different game indeed.

The Ivy Look is about a look - If I'd have written it there would be no writing at all, just lovely stuff to look at.

Why should The Ivy Look be all about discussion & information, no matter now much you might want that?  If that's the book you want then go & write it.

I love The Ivy Look for various reasons, including where it comes from, the fact that it is the first book EVER on this subject of ours, and that it also gets up the noses of all the right (wrong) people!

But, more than any of that, it's just a lovely thing to have in my life. It brings me joy...

... I stick on a bit of Trane & flip through it with my reading glasses on in my Corduroy armchair that used to belong to old Uncle George up in Harrogate and I'm so bloody happy that you wouldn't believe.

Marsh & Gaul are good people who do good things.

And neither of them are anxious, silly, little, bitches with self-important, yet deeply shonky blogs manipulated into being by me!



(I remain "Russell_Street"!)

Am I missing something here? There are never going to be queues in Waterstones for it, it's not a great work of literature and theres no deep hidden meaning to it. So get over yourselves!

Its just a thoroughly nice little book with a great collection of images and an accompanying commentary that are only of interest to about 0.05% of the population. It's ideal for flicking through in the odd spare moment so I keep my copy in the bog.

Yup, it's just a book to be enjoyed.

Chensvold was the first to make it out to be anything more that it is in his attack on me pretending it to be about the book. Equally his personal attack on JP Gaul was also all about me. The boy is loopy.

He's fun to play with though!