Esquire Magazine shoe wardrobe, Fall 1939. Note the Monk Shoe, the Chukka Boot (2 Eyelets of course) and the Norwegian Algonquin already in evidence.

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My favourite is 16K23 – White Buckskin with Red Goat Leather, Rubber Soles.

This is from 1915!

Somehow manages to make the 1964 original from Take Ivy look like 1994.

Button-downed protest. SF 1965

Corduroy on campus. 1960s California.

San Francisco obscenity fracas. Student reading The Spider, SF. 1965

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From a ‘Time Out’ special on Covent Garden, 16-22 July 1986. “Peripatetic preppies catered for at J Simons.” John Simons is on the stool at the right. It looks as though the old till hadn’t yet arrived, though it’s gratifying to see the legendary J Simons shoe stretcher proudly on display. John now of course plies his trade with his son Paul with more gusto than ever from 46 Chiltern Street in Marylebone. But I still miss the old place…

When it looked like that it was still great. Towards the end you couldn’t get much past the door it was so full of odds and ends. Out of shot to the left, the shelves full of Sero and Geoffrey Scott BDs in their packets…

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Two studies in Ivy style on two of my oldest friends. Top : Mr Collins in Cambridge Nov 1987 in tartan Baracuta G9 and tortoiseshell Anglo-Americans. Bottom : Mr Isaacs in Paris Sept 1988 in Brooks Brothers blue oxford and Linett Ivy League sports jacket, purchased from J.Simons. We still dress this way today, with one or two minor adjustments. Linett was a fantastic manufacturer of traditional American clothing, now sadly no longer trading. 

gibsonssyllabus:

Two studies in Ivy style on two of my oldest friends. Top : Mr Collins in Cambridge Nov 1987 in tartan Baracuta G9 and tortoiseshell Anglo-Americans. Bottom : Mr Isaacs in Paris Sept 1988 in Brooks Brothers blue oxford and Linett Ivy League sports jacket, purchased from J.Simons. We still dress this way today, with one or two minor adjustments. Linett was a fantastic manufacturer of traditional American clothing, now sadly no longer trading. 

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Every time you order some mail order shirts from the wonderful Mercer & Sons in Yarmouth, Maine they send your goods wrapped up in an off-cut of one of their fabrics along with a delightful sprinkling of some of their dinky little swatches. There’ll always be a hand-written note thrown in. The effect is to make one feel like part of the Mercer family, a believer in their cause. Mercer carry the torch for the authentic American button-down with the long, full-roll, unfused collar, a six-button placket, and the full traditional ‘gentleman’s’ cut. Their other collar style, a simple and very American plain collar (called a tennis point collar by some) is neat in a very JFK kind of way. Invariably you wait a while for your order to be fulfilled but it’s a wait loaded with life-affirming expectation. This year, if you want a new shirt, buy the best, buy MERCER!   www.mercerandsons.com

I really need to stop thinking/talking about it and order some, albeit with the slimmer body cut. I have Graham Marsh’s check version etched on my brain.