The other day I was re watching the Bedford Incident with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. It's a fine movie in its own right but always fun to watch movies with some clothes spotting potential. Poitier plays a photo journalist in the Life Magazine mould who's airlifted onto Widmark's warship. …
The Ivy Is Always Greener Online – Beware of Coveting Thine Own Stuff
Loafer Envy Out East I was out East having coffee with my pal Herb Lester last week and noticed he was wearing what I thought was a pair of vintage double-soled Weejuns - those with the heft and solidity of the loafers worn by William Holden in that much republished image of him in NY. But no, this …
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Ivy Humour
Gant Yale Eats Itself.
Every season for the past few years the Gant Yale brand has produced the odd nice shirt in a good fabric and with the lamentable logo on the locker loop at least self coloured or obscure. Today I popped into the Regent St store to see in person what some of the fabrics are like in this season's …
The Catalina Varsity Jacket
Catalina Varsity vs Derby of San Francisco (vs a Newcomer) In the past I've written about both the Catalina La Paz and the Derby of San Francisco bomber jackets. This time I'm focusing on the Catalina Varsity, a jacket closer in style and substance to the Derby version, along with a new copy from …
I Spy The Ivy Years
I Spy 1965 - 1968 Among the raft of classic US TV series to feature the kind of clothes that we all love, I Spy is up there with the best. In the first series Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott are wearing some staple boom years ivy with the usual Hollywood modifications. A double vent sack here, a …
Sidney Poitier Head to Toe in Lee Westerners
An unusual and interesting movie from director Ralph Nelson and featuring Sidney wearing the all out Lee Westerners 101 sateen suit with rough out boots. A look that's hard to pull off. I've yet to wear my Japanese reissue 101J with the matching pants. You need a perfect day and a Leith Surfer T in …
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Here We Go Again,Weejun…
As anyone who's ever attempted to maintain a blog will testify, it's tough. Time is the biggest enemy. Next comes ease of use - from the almost book length posts of traditional blogs many of us moved to the easy sound[word]bites of Tumblr an Facebook. Whilst they both have their virtues, it's hard …
White Levi’s by The Majorettes – 1963
Here's some light hearted fun to blow away the January blues. A 45 from 1963 used to promote the new 'White Levi's", so-called because they weren't blue and had a white tag. Some reissues are out this month from LVC, but meanwhile here's the single on YouTube. "White Levi's, Tennis Shoes, Surfin' …
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The Department Store Museum: 1960s Ivy ‘Varsity’ Shops
Often when we find some vintage clothing, especially shirts like Gant or Sero, they will have had the store name tags made up and sewn in alongside the brand. This kind of co-branding for local loyalty was common in the US and a kind of precursor to the ubiquitous Brand X Hip Store that we see …
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