I think that was on the community noticeboard of the Orange website in the Macchiato Man rules.

I guess that was what John Gall was told by guys like Ian Strachan and John Simons who had grown up before Beatlemania, British Invasion and the whole pop explosion of the early 60s.

After all, Chet Baker was a pop star in the 50s. It's hard to believe nowadays but Jazz wasn't for retired teachers back then, it was rather popular and it was part of youth culture as much as it was part of adult culture, as anyone can witness in "Jazz on a Summer's Day".

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I believe the Foster suits are Rubinacci.

Johnson had a penchant for black Brooks Bros suits. I think I've mentioned that before.

I'm a bit confused by the Arena article you've posted. I have an article on Simons from the mid-ninties, which I thought was GQ but was told it was Arena, now the Arena article seems to be the 80s one so I'm back to thinking it was GQ...I'll have to try again to find it...

The American architect Barry Dierks was a great dresser wore A&S.

You're pushing it a bit with Williams-Ellis.

John Cooper Clarke, is he Ivy? Anyway,  his current tailor is Sir Tom Baker and he definitely isn't Ivy.

Some of the stuff posted, overcoats by Aquscutum for example is British style.

Baracuta is interesting because it was designed in Britain (Manchester actually) and not specifically for the American market. So I contest that that is British style also.

love that Koenig pic, really good style .... ripple soles are unfamiliar but otherwise it looks like great ... Brooks wash and wear suit is a masterful piece of design ......

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I dug these threads out.  Perhaps they can shed some light.  But dinner's ready, so I'm outta here. 

http://forums.filmnoirbuff.com/viewtopic.php?id=12935

http://forums.filmnoirbuff.com/viewtopic.php?id=8743

Oh, Harpo got a real cool pair recently, which he featured on the Recent Old Ivy Finds thread.

I bought my first Baracuta from the Squire shop in 1969/70 and was disappointed when I found out that it was made in England. I thought that JS had sold me a knock off copy as I believed Harringtons were a USA product. Much of what JS sold was made in UK and we liked the USA/UK cross-fertilisation. I still like that connection today. Ivy for me is not 100% American.

I also shopped at the Village Gate in the 1970's and so was open to a bit of the Continental influences. You are right that it was a cosmopolitan look that we were after.

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