Now i've started this i think I REALLY SHOULD GET MY COAT   



Lewis (Head between my legs waitting for the kicking)

Kingstonian might have a few observations to make here.  He tends to cut to the chase.

I guess Ivy was 'pure' when it was worn by those who could afford it - before the Second World War.  But Jim's right.  Every time I think of, say, Paul Stuart, I think of something slightly other than Ivy.  Call it 'Ivy-style' if you like, but I would have thought a nice young middle-class lad like Miles Davis might have gone there as a natural thing - not in the way that, say, Buddy Holly would have gone to Millings.  Richard Channing's comments about blokes just basically chucking Paul Stuart's suits and all the trimmings into a shopping basket strikes me as a little, erm, peculiar...  I'm not saying it didn't happen that way, of course, it's just the way it strikes me.  For those whose fathers and grandfathers had worn the stuff it would have been a mundane rite of passage, I'm sure.  I guess they liked their 'Scottish' shoes and knitwear, perhaps in the same way the Highlands and tartan became fashionable amongst the mid-Victorians...