GANT my favourite label brand, Have purchased at least 5 items this year.
Mostly casual wear.

I remember Hathaways as havng an "H" on their tails in the 80's too... Used to get them in Simpsons, Piccadilly, I did, from those layered, slightly greenish, frosted Art Deco glass shelves down near the doors onto Jermyn Street...
Last time I went for some they'd lost the box pleat and just had those shoulder tucks. I didn't buy, but chatted to the camp old duck who was down there on duty by the till -  "Do you find you need that extra room to expand?" He asked when I said I wanted shirts with that box pleat. 'Hello Sailor' I thought and made my excuses...

Ya couldn't make this stuff up...

J.

That’s true re: Gant. A surprisingly concise and informative for a Wikipedia entry. Were other shirts really considered just knock-off of Gant’s? Is that correct? Perhaps the slightly older American contributors could comment on that claim. I did pick up a mid 60’s Gant half sleeve ocbd recently and it is a beautifully made shirt. The cloth is particularly fine. Retailed by Roos Atkins of San Francisco. A fairly high roll to the collar, with rear button, sissy-pull/hanging loop and a fairly wide central box pleat. Not for nothing does the label call it ‘The Hugger’. A full chest tapers quite radically to the waist. It’s in a pale chambray with pale green and pumpkin vertical stripes for those interested. No little red ‘G’ sewn on btw.

Staceyboy

until quite recently i always thought gant WAS a swedish ivy imitator brans, quite like the scandinavian ralph lauren or the like. i used to have quite a severe label prejudice towards it (like i've confessed on some other thread eralier on - i really should contribute to the label prejudice thread started by alex..), but have discovered that some of gant items are rather nice. local gant store offers some really nice narrow ties for instance and yesterday i spotted a very nice madras-like checked bd shirt, with three buttons as in proper ivy shirts. not sure whether the fabric was real madras though. had my finances been better i'd bought it right away.

'as seen in blue note record covers' - I like that definition.

I'm into ASIBNRC-Ivy as well.

Back to Gant, I was at a Gant store recently and there were quite a lot of nice things. I didn't buy anything though. Fabrics weren't that great but I liked a lot of the colours that Gant uses. The brand (or at least their marketing department) seems to scream 'HERITAGE' at the moment, which is a little off-putting, but I can get past it.

funny enough, i bought the madras-like shirt i mentioned earslier on my lunch hour as local gant store had it 40 5 off as wasn't yesterday. tomorroww i'll wear the shirt with the same strides i'm having today, topped wit either a red g9 or navy g 4. i imagine the shit will look great with dark denim as well, especially untucked. then it has to be warm and i don't wear a harrington over it of course.

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^ "The Hugger"!

The 'Trad' condom has cropped up a few times elsewhere by those wishing to cause a stir as I recall...

My knowledge of them is limited to American teenage movies I'm afraid. In fact have never actually even seen one in real life ouside of its wrapper. True, that.

- Along with my boast that I have never played football in my life this is one of the four fascinating things about me.

That guy that re-did the Weejun -- forget his name.  He recently made an American-made version.  He also did a new Gant that was claimed to have been an old-school cut with details.  Anyone ever check it out?