Editor’s Note: Welcome to the third and final piece in a series from G. Bruce Boyer, to whom we are grateful for allowing us to share. The accompanying playlist can be found by clicking here. P...
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Editor’s Note: We are very pleased to present the second in a series of columns by G. Bruce Boyer on music (jazz mostly) and fashion. We have also put together another playlist for you to corre...
http://www.ivy-style.com/jazz-goes-to-college-jazz-and-ivy-style-at-mid-century.html
On the Ivy Style Facebook group, we started a playlist of songs that were Ivy for one reason or another. Click here for the playlist as currently constituted. The reasons varied. The artist d...
J. Press is Ivy’s North Star, and the catalog, which you can see if you click here, strikes the perfect balance between letting us know North is still North and inviting a new audience. W...
http://www.ivy-style.com/j-press-fw-catalog-2021-an-ivy-syllabus.html
Commenting on our article “Is Ivy Cool?” reader “Camford” asked, “Are cigarettes and jazz cool?” I cannot say whether they are cool. Well, I could, but I won’t, as my physician, in...
http://www.ivy-style.com/the-marketing-man-who-made-jazz-and-ivy-cool.html
For those of you new to Tradsville, this website was born from a summer 2008 story I did for Ralph Lauren Magazine about Miles Davis getting outfitted by Charlie Davidson of The Andover Shop in 1...
After a run of posts devoted to IBM and its ultra-stern dress policy — in which a faux pas in tassel loafers could ruin your chance of becoming a middle manager — we are bringing back a celeb...
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On our recent post on jazz albums from the Ivy heyday, someone commented saying he was at college in the ’50s and that jazz was only for beatniks. Sure beatniks dug jazz, but so did the guys ab...