You can learn all about Mr. Hozumi’s extensive career illustrating the elements of Ivy Style here. In September Mr. Hozumi’s Illustrated Ivy will be released. From the publisher – Since...
http://www.ivy-style.com/kazuo-hozumis-illustrated-ivy-in-english.html
My favorite story about presidential valets (grammar note before you get your blood pressure up, “presidential” is only capitalized when it is part of a formal title, like the name of an even...
In Bedford today, it is supposed to reach 56 degrees. We started out at 27 this morning, but by 11… … blue blazer. My first exposure to the respect – that’s not the word. Esteem? Th...
Book reviews are so predictable. They start in one of two ways – either with the author’s take on the subject and then a segue into the book (if you want my take on the subject read WASPS b...
In our last post we mentioned a 1954 LIFE Magazine article entitled “The Ivy Look Heads Across US.” It’s been referenced several times here, including in a few of Richard Press’ columns, ...
http://www.ivy-style.com/dateline-1954-the-ivy-league-look-heads-across-the-us.html
The following is an excerpt from Alison Lurie‘s 1981 book “The Language of Clothes,” a fascinating study of the semiotics of clothing. Lurie taught English for many years at Cornell. The ...
http://www.ivy-style.com/preppy-week-alison-lurie-on-being-rich-and-dull.html
Years ago Tradsville personality “AldenPyle” started a thread at Ask Andy that included the above ad, which ran in the Yale Daily News in 1941. The ad touches on several themes we explored i...
Over the past dozen years, Ivy Style has been honored to digitize for the Internet the work of legendary menswear historian G. Bruce Boyer, thereby making it available to a new generation of read...
http://www.ivy-style.com/the-aristocrat-of-outerwear-boyer-on-the-polo-coat.html