love 'em.
don't own a thing 'cause i can't afford it but oh if i could!!

http://www.paulstuart.com/product_info.cfm?ProdID=2394&ProdCatId=1008&MainCatId=14&HEADERMENUID=1&SUBPRODCATID=0

i like those. they're similar to the loake eton which in suede i prefer to the weejun/sebago classic.

I am a fan.  I used to shop there when I lived nearby.  Very pricey.  I have found other less pricey alternatives.  Also, not really pure Ivy.  Seems more of a dandified updated look.  Tony V wrote a great piece about their updated American silouette.

There's a definite European slant, Italy especially.  No one I know knows them (if you follow me...), and I picked up one of their raincoats for £1.99 on Ebay UK.  That's because, according to a reliable source, 'no one in England has heard of Paul Stuart'.  I sold it on to a guy in Germany, who seemed pleased with it.  Not been tempted by much, but I wear the cashmere jumper most weeks.

Maybe Ebay.US, then, Alex.

Well, it can be a problem.  I admire the principle, wholly.

No, no, no...  don't apologise...  I love to see it going off at a tangent, and I'm sure others do, too...  I admire your strength of character, believe me, having gone through the entire 'Do I look adorable?' schtick in my early years...  Now I'm caught between a slouch and a hard case...

Mm...  seems doubtful, adam.  Maybe a tourist.  Another reliable source tells me that, thirty and more years ago, they were regarded as less classy than Brooks; more on the Press level.  I'd be inclined to give them a miss nowadays, on the grounds of cost and lack of Ivy credibility.

We're talking about quite a long time ago, though, adam, when Brooks was still a New York-New England mainstay.  As far as I'm aware their stores are in New York, Chicago and Tokyo; nowhere else.  They do nice, very conservative repps - I have a couple: very William Buckley 'God and Man At Yale': dullness has its merits for the older Ivy dresser.  I don't know: just try comparing vintage Brooks with Paul Stuart on Ebay - the simplest way to do it I should've thought - and see what conclusions you draw.  Frankly, the navy blue cashmere jumper I had recently - Brooks - seems at least as classy as the maroon one I've had for a couple of years - Paul Stuart.  But, for nice soft cashmere, nothing touches old Alan Paine!

It remains beyond me why so many those who claim an interest in this style of ours don't have those convo's with some of the American (or English) haberdashers of old, Brother Horace. Instead they just Google away & fill their heads with Wiki 'facts'... Lazy & dumb.

And there's also this horrible circular thing online of online people talking to online people, bloggers talking to bloggers. It all props itself up & it's all based on the most shakey of foundations.

Talk to the primary sources while we still have them - Never mind what second-hand, edited distillations of their words you can find on the blogs.

http://thesuitroom.tumblr.com/post/12210686452/real-heritage

I was so happy when I found this jacket, because it bridged the things I love about Ivy with the things I like about Phineas Cole.

I always look at their offerings on Ebay.  Always.  Yet never swoop on anything.  I've seen the very occasional shirt in a particular 'vintage' shop I go to.  But the cashmere v-neck I had, though luxurious, did not last.  A Shetland crew neck needed repairing in the shoulders.  The cords were nice enough, though pleated.  Yet I still look.  One day, maybe...