I can't see aspiring to a brand, but I think the slim cut and the quality of the shirts that I bought last year were superlative.  The fabric, the stitching, everything was pretty good.  I wouldn't mind comparing them to other ENglish-made pique shirts like SUnspel though, which I haven't tried.  (Only t-shirts).

That's how I imagine it, RS. Part of our Atlantic cross cultural exchange. Totemic items taken out of their 'home' context and thus given another (double?) meaning or significance. Perhaps our esteemed American friends can advise?

Staceyboy

I've been kind of straining to tell whether or not it is the laurel wreath on the shirt Bobby Kennedy's wearing in a photograph on board a boat.  I guess it might have had a quite complex resonance back then: taken from the tennis court into other areas of leisure, then worn around - not unlike Lacoste, spotted here and there in the movies.  FP might have been more of a luxury item than Lacoste - if the likes of Izod didn't get their mitts on it. 
I reckon on looking at Grass Court.  Meanwhile I've invested in a 100 per cent cotton US Marine Corps Signal Unit example: only £7.  If, by any stretch of the imagination, I could get my hands on something like the one Staceyboy shows us above I'd be chuffed.  'Old school' Fred Perry remains all right, but only just.  But the chavs have been into the dodgier aspects of the brand for too many years now: to the extent that seeing Andy Murray wearing it makes me smile a bit. 
I used to pick up nice, English made examples from charity shops a few years back, but now anything 'vintage' seems to be coming from the Far East or, sometimes, Portugal.

I wonder if English made FP still exists, but for export only, the company safe in the knowledge that English kids in 2009 will wear any old gubbins.

^^^ It's made in England?

I like a lot of the Japanese interpretations of classic Ivy style but often there something that's not quite right about it.  LIke it's too perfect.  Better than the original.  It's like some sort of virtual reality trip.