Sidney, Harry & Charlton:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Poitier_Belafonte_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg

Last edited by Russell_Street (2008-07-24 04:26:40)

When he slaps the white guy back I cheered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaKDn64im6I&feature=related

Only a bump because when I first met the Ivy style in exile & in disgrace from London in Yorkshire in 1978 it was first of all a BLACK style to me.

Here is kinda my Intro into Ivy:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOc_EwdE7Kk

Ivy had real BALLS -


But that's just me.

Black balls/white balls it can still have balls I think Jim.

Miles, McQueen, Cassavetes, Cosby,

I know where you're, or were, at Jim. I've always seen it as a ballsy look.

My dad was never into the style. He doesn't know it as Ivy. He wouldn't recognise the look as any on here know it but when I do see him (once every couple months) he appreciates my style more and more as I drift deeper into Ivy. He knows it, He's known it for a long time without knowing it. From album covers and films and on the streets in the 70's. It has been an osmotic process and it's come and gone BUT he still recognises it as a look with BALLS. I wear my tweed sack and he recognises McQueen. The baggy BD and he knows it's the Milestones cover. He see's the no break and the Weejuns and he sees every sussed kid he knew growing up. Nothing's changed about that look. It's still all BALLS.

Last edited by Liam Mac (2012-04-28 08:42:22)

I think that's why George didn't like his LVC 519's.

Yes RIP Sidney Poitier.
Was he the first black male identifiable as a movie star? No doubt he would be denounced for being too establishment these days.