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#1 2006-05-05 00:30:25
- Horace
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Natural-Shouldered Trad images from the 50's and 60's.
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#2 2006-05-05 00:49:01
- Miles Away
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Re: Natural-Shouldered Trad images from the 50's and 60's.
Words fail me!
THIS IS THE STUFF !!!
Wonderful images, Horace, thank you very much.
That Chester Laurie suit will haunt me!
Nothing "Fogey" about this TNSIL style -
Ivy as it should be!
Miles
" ... Ubi bene, ibi patria, which being roughly translated means, 'Wherever there's a handout, that's for me, man.' "
Alistair Cooke. 1968.
#3 2006-05-05 05:37:10
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Regards.
Ed
#4 2006-05-05 16:06:51
- oldog/oldtrix
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Re: Natural-Shouldered Trad images from the 50's and 60's.
Love the Botany 500 ads. Botany 500 (by Daroff) was the top line at my grandfather/father’s store in the 1950s. I clearly remember getting a Botany 500 from the store’s stock as my first adult sized suit; a 38 regular when I was 12 (before that it was all sport coats and slacks). It was a hard finished charcoal olive twill, probably about 12 oz., three button, center vent, plain front trousers. That would have been late 1958 or early 1959, and there was some debate as to whether I should have such an “expensive” suit when I was growing very quickly. The combination I best remember wearing with the suit was a light green hairline stripe tab collar shirt, a rep tie in even stripes of dark and light olive, and a white cotton handkerchief in a TV fold. Try as I might, I can’t remember the shoes. I still have and use several wishbone suit hangers bearing the Botany 500 label with the long gone store’s name embossed on it.
#5 2006-05-05 16:41:30
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Love the proportions of that 2-button Botany suit. Note the perfect sleeve set.
#6 2006-05-05 16:48:17
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As long as we're traveling down Memory Lane, does anyone from the New Jersey area remember one of the all-time wonderful clothing stores, MacHugh's, in Ridgewood? A haven of Ivy League style. I get warm all over just thinking of the store, which, sadly, has been replaced by a bank.
Marc
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#8 2006-05-06 05:46:30
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""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#9 2006-05-06 05:54:02
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#10 2006-05-06 08:33:45
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"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#11 2006-05-07 04:46:20
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#12 2006-05-07 04:52:42
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#13 2006-05-07 08:58:39
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Re: Natural-Shouldered Trad images from the 50's and 60's.
I own a 'Botany' 500 Tailored by Daroff jacket in grey herringbone wool. Undarted with natural shouders, swelled seams and single vent, it is a true 3-button with 2.5" lapels. The lapel notch outer 'corners' are rounded which gives them a cloverleaf look. The jacket seems to be a mixture of ivy and continental styles. I would say it dates from the early 1960s.
As a teenager in the UK I remember watching the 'Andy Williams Show' one of the credits was something like 'Mr Williams wardrobe supplied by 'Botany' 500.
Thanks for these lovely images Horace, please keep them coming.
Chris
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#14 2006-05-07 09:16:44
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Superlative posts, Horace!
Yours in gratitude,
Miles
" ... Ubi bene, ibi patria, which being roughly translated means, 'Wherever there's a handout, that's for me, man.' "
Alistair Cooke. 1968.
#15 2006-05-07 18:34:23
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Those are great. It all brings back fond memories of Madison Avenue during the sixties.
Keep them coming.
#16 2006-05-09 09:56:12
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#17 2006-05-17 12:27:51
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#18 2006-05-17 12:59:48
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#19 2006-05-17 13:35:24
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I like the lapels on the Altman jacket. These days I have 3" lapels on my jackets. Is it possible to vary the width of the lapels on the Southwick MTN range. Some of the jackets in the Andover Shop catalogue look to have narrowish lapels.
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#20 2006-05-17 13:46:11
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#21 2006-05-18 04:46:58
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#22 2006-05-18 04:52:50
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#23 2006-05-18 04:58:16
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#24 2006-05-18 05:02:07
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#25 2006-05-18 05:05:59
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