Where did you find this clipping?

Staggering that English boys would want to emulate Ivy style and that it would be all about the shoes.

There is this certain level that men can formulate nostalgia for clothes. It seems to be OK to reminisce about all the items you bought and where (even how you modified or customized them) but rarely how you put the look all together.

Any news on John Lally?

Ian from the Ivy we know is deep in the Forest of Dean, but what of John-with-the-glasses (Never knew his surname till today!) ?

- A really nice guy. And very patient with a nebbish like me. I well remember him selling a couple of pairs of Sebagos to Pete Townshend back in '87.
He was well known to The Who in fact and used to drink with them from time to time.
I once copied a pair of tweed throusers of his - Mine were 'Parkes' from Sam Fisher in Covent Garden & not quite as good as his, but his were the inspiration.

Quiet guy.
No need to boast.

If he's reading - How is "Archie"?

... Well, I trust.

David

Last edited by Terry Lean (2007-07-07 00:50:12)

I noticed quite a few Timberland boxes in that photo.  Timberland met a sad demise in quality over the past decade or two.  Back in the day, their boots were top notch.  And I remember they made a silly looking boat shoe with a seriously thick (almost platform) sole that was the rage for some time.

Very Trad.

what's british trad?

Speaking of Timberland boots (the original yellowish/tan color) and class consciousness, The Departed, which I just saw again, and have begun to think is one of the great American films of the last 25 years, has a few shots of the these boots.

One of the weird things about life that I've begun to realize -- and it's not great insight really -- is that some things that seem to have happened so long ago, were really just around the corner in a larger historical perspective, like the whole busing/racial problem in South Boston (and greater Boston) as well.  I remember talking to someone about in in the 1990's and then realizing that the events were really less than fifteen years back.  Pre-Whitey on the lam.

edit:  Whitey Bulger that is.

Last edited by Horace (2007-07-16 22:40:02)