I remember someone commenting on my 'off-duty golfer' look once. I had a baggy, short sleeved Ralph BD shirt with a crossed clubs badge on the top pocket. I've never seen another one and I wished I still had the shirt. I must have bought it in Canada.
I've been trying to think of the darts player who used to wear BD shirts, in complete contrast to the usual gross (in more than one sense) darts shirts.

Nautical Ivy. I like it. How could you look at those photos of JFK and Paul Newman on their boats and not want a slice of that? Not particularly Ivy, but Cary Grant in 'To Catch a Thief'. Lovely stuff.

Around this time of year I start craving the untucked polo, light shorts or chinos, boat shoes or CVOs. Bleached out ball cap. Shades and sea air. What's not to like?

I seem to remember Harringtons in Guildford stocking a few bits of Henri Lloyd? OC shirts and polos in nice pastels. I Don't think it was the big logo, proper sailing stuff HL seem to do today. Sat very well with the other gear in there at the time. I've still got a very pale orange OC somewhere.

I'm not particularly proud of it, but even some Crew Clothing stuff hits that spot for me. Certainly ok for knocking around Littlehampton on a sunny day.

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Their is an old saying 'If it flies, floats, or flirts, you should rent it not buy it.'
They say boats are things that float with a hole that you throw money in.
I have to keep telling my brother in law this. He wants me to go 50/50 on buying a boat. We have friends with boats and it's best to wait to be invited on a fishing trip or a day out on the water.
In Leigh on sea the boatyards are full of craft that haven't been on the river for years.
It is very seductive though and my Henri Lloyd stuff that I have been given might be of use some day.

When I was 18 my Dad bought a small cabin cruiser and moored it in Richmond, I thought all my dreams had come true, a floating boudoire to entertain young ladies after the pubs had closed, he bought it on a Sunday, I got home from work on Monday evening and he'd told the guy he got it from he didn't want it as the bottom was rotten, I was distraught,

I have a friend who inherited a small wooden criuser. It's a beauty, but needs restoration. So far it's only taken him about 15  years but it's nearly half done. Stax, a cruiser moored in Richmond, 18 years old, wow better than my Mark 2 Cortina as a love nest.

The inside of a large pipe! Who said romance was dead. HaHa.

I’m from Long Island, NY- and lots of people had boats and boat slips right at the end of their streets. This wasn’t the fancy part of the Island—- just regular people.  There’s a saying that instead of buying a boat you might just as well stand in the shower and rip up hundred dollar bills. My family had a Thanksgiving tradition with friends who had a house and boat on the water. That was fun- and enough for me. 

The funny thing is, when boat shoes came into style- all the non-nautical types like me and my siblings wore them. But our family friends - the Thanksgiving people- they never had that stuff.  Maybe an LLBean sweater (that classic navy one with the v-shaped white flecks) an Irish fisherman knit, but their relationship to sailing was real and not “fashion coordinated?? . It was a great piecemeal look.

Nowadays, boat shoes in Manhattan are a giveaway the wearer is a tourist.

On a higher plane of existence than carnality, white boat shoes were sometimes seen at Russell Street: often in a very shabby condition.  Like at least some loafers - Bass, Sebago - they are strictly for a short walk/trip to the supermarket: more or less like slippers.  And they can be a bad look.

I have been looking at nautical sweaters- I mentioned - and like what I see at Sns Herning and especially Andersen-Andersen. They have a crew neck with a wide collar that seems great as well as a turtleneck. I’ve felt the weave and it’s a beast. 6-ply, thick, a purchase that might last a lifetime.

If anyone is interested in 60's nautical IVY (ish) stuff, search under "spinnaker wool" on eBay and you'll see a very nice example of a wool sailing cover-up.  Good for cool nights, worn with shorts, autumn, etc.

Have a Woolaways submariners jumper
Very warm. Maybe too warm for heated interiors. Not really Ivy.
Proper British kit though.