What's up with The Weejun then? Last week it was 24 Celsius and I was posting about duffle coats. Today it's like official winter outside and I'm wearing the end of summer madras (actually a Gant Rugger one I picked up for £20 at their factory store). Whatever next? Still yet to wear my 60s …
Arrow Cum Laude: The New Breed ’66
After out of season duffle coats, back to in-season madras style checks from 1966 - Arrow Cum Laude Sanforized All Cotton Button Downs... …
One You Can Buy: Original Montgomery Duffle Coat
Last week I posted on the search for classic duffle coats and their extraordinary hybrid history and promised details of a coat that I'd found that was a really great mix of the wooden toggles and sisal fastenings of the Gloverall Montgomery with the more wearable 60s style tartan lined pancake hood …
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One You Can Buy: Verginia Shoe Playboys – Japan via Portugal
This site is fast becoming an hommage to the Playboy rather than the Weejun it seems. But perhaps that can be forgiven when the Weejun is fairly ubiquitous and easy to find in comparison to decent playboys. Well, thanks to a pseudonimous tip off yesterday morning from FNB contributor and fellow …
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Ivy Originals: The Duffle Coat
In the history of 20th Century menswear there are some items that are simply iconic and transcend both fashion and geography. These days most of those items would probably be American - sweatshirts, trainers, jeans just as examples. However, there are a few items that are considered intrinsically …
Hutton’s Original Playboys Spotted – in 1940!
The other day I was having breakfast watching a fun movie with Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith called Second Chorus from 1940. The pair play perennial flunkers at an unnamed East Coast Ivy establishment, who run the college big band and make so much money from it they never want to graduate. …
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Ivy on Campus: Part 2
More Ivy Style campus images, Harringtons (Baracuta and London Fog style), Levis Cords and unusually, tan penny loafers in evidence. Also campus style cat, the must have accessory (along with a monkey, of course). …
Ivy on Campus: Part 1
I know, I know. I've not blogged for months and here I am starting another 'series' theme. But The Weejun has been very busy indeed and little time to justice to the topics at hand. I've had a hiatus from buying/collecting but like the plant itself, Ivy has been creeping back into my life causing …
For Sale: Deadstock 1960s Bass Weejuns N734 Boxed (and the REAL Definitive History of Bass Weejuns!)
These amazing shoes actually don't fit me so in the interests of freeing up wardrobe space these Deadstock 1960s Bass Weejuns are for sale. Email your bids here: Worldwide shipping at cost plus insurance... Hot on the heels (so to speak) of my last lucky deadstock find, the Ivy League donegal …
The Cakes and Ale Dress Shirt
Interesting advert showing the late 60s crossover between old world and new world use of Ivy...Great name too. Wren's of Fifth Avenue. Some background info here on the excellent Ivy League Style blog …