I'm having a suit in that style but with peak labels, in a grey kid mohair with a lilac and white pin stripe by Harrisons. I've got my consultation two weeks tomorrow. My last suit by my tailor who sadly is calling it a day in 5 months. I can't make my mind up to have plain pockets or jetted openings at an angle as Steed also wore.

^ What about these older gents in countrified clothing ?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/14/article-1302935-0ACA63B7000005DC-524_468x576.jpg

Incidentally,

Is the only difference between this site's ties http://www.walters-oxford.co.uk/oxford-college-ties.html and this one's http://www.oushop.com/Accessories/Gentlemen/Ties the price?

Typical English scarves?  Or are the public school ones more typical.


http://www.walters-oxford.co.uk/oxford-college-scarves.html

I kind of like the one Coxon was wearing in one of those Cordings photos.

What is that scarf that the English wear and really no other nation does?

Here's an MCC enthusiast. He is wearing those red trousers too! Jacket is way cool.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/9264744/Lords-should-be-kept-free-of-nuns-and-nylon.html

I think it's great you love this stuff FNB but Imo ultimately unlike ivy, english clothing was not democratised. Bish might argue tweed is and would have a case, but thats the countryside for you, those workers work for the rich that's how it went down with our once feudal system.

I would feel more stupid wearing a college scarf and a blazer. Because it has too much meaning. I would consider myself a fake. The great thing is if you do have a right to this stuff. Then you can wear it and the choice and tradition is really romantic. The nouveau riche dont have a right to this stuff either which is great. It keeps it guarded. Until they can get little johnny into that prep school and then off to Oxford.  Then they can begin to be something more than trash with money. There is history, class leanings and entitlement shot through a lot of english clothing.

Well depends on the point in time. But like I said before, returning GIs and mid-level stores made Ivy popular beyond the blue bloods. And a sta prest trouser is about as elite as a food stamp really. The ivy I like and what I like to wear is very everyman late 50s to mid late 60s. I see it as a style with little statement. If I went to cordings id come out looking like harry potter. Or worse. Maybe now America sees it differently, but I cant see people looking at Worried Man thinking he is in high social standing?