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#1 2009-03-15 14:25:12
- Tim
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Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
I'll be posting these up over the next few days, they're all in PDF format. First batch is 1954 (one article) & 1955.
February 1954: "That Brooks Brothers Look"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D4XQNJ28
January 1955: "The Well Dressed Playboy"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S2GN91OH
May 1955: "Well-Groomed Featherweights for Spring"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EWI5P4OQ
July 1955: "The Shorts Story"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N6UYTQKP - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y8REG3H8 - Part 2
September 1955: "The Basic Wardrobe"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OA2GDX8K - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0J6YVEHJ - Part 2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=991SIVFR - Part 3
October 1955: "Summa Cum Style"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HYW2AUX6 - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AX4FBC5N - Part 2
November 1955: "Playboy's Christmas Stocking"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AZTJZ8X5 - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6B2ZISY7 - Part 2
Thanks to D&F for pointing me in the direction of file storage, hope it works ok!
#2 2009-03-15 15:18:32
- Decline & Fall
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Tim, huge thanks for posting! These articles are really great. The artwork is really something!
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#3 2009-03-16 01:52:16
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Fantastic!
Many thanks, Tim.
#4 2009-03-16 02:10:03
- TheWeejun
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Brilliant, thanks Tim
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#5 2009-03-16 02:25:05
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
And THIS is what I mean about Tim having a good eye!
#6 2009-03-16 03:21:03
- Tim
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Here's the second batch, 1956:
January:
"Formal Wear"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KLSKK8NT
February:
"At Ease"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CUQWJBAZ - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4DXQ1Z21 - Part 2
"On The Cuff"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=915KEN3J
March:
"Dry and Dapper"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E6YHCEAW - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OT4Y995T - Part 2
"Fit To Be Tied"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MENSU63C
April:
"Sun Fun"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WCI5K5WZ - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GYHJXL9N - Part 2
"The Shirts On Your Back"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AQXN6M4D
May:
"The Executive Suit"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TLNISM23 - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AK8QIWSO - Part 2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GTFZ5B4B - Part 3
"Heads You Win"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ICHOQ9I8
June:
"In The Swim"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MEHLETTK
July:
"Best Foot Forward"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YXPE72AS
"Good Sports!"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LJ5JKWP0
August:
"Selected Short Subjects"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5L1W4AIB - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BNMWJRB8 - Part 2
"Dial For Style"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TZZNCL14
September:
"Shirt Tale"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XIEHFYJ4 - Part 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ODYWXXC3 - Part 2
"Suit Yourself"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GF5TQ898
October:
"King's Cord"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HAF8SGNI
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MZ3CZWMB
"A Tightly Knit Yarn"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IP2OOIG9
#7 2009-03-16 03:30:42
- Klook
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Thanks for posting these fantastic articles. Do they come from one of the electronic versions of Playboy? I've sometimes wondered about buying those but haven't heard any reports.
#8 2011-12-12 13:43:10
- Chiltern Street
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
We don't seem to hear from Tim nowadays.
It must be twenty odd years since I bought a top shelf magazine, but the very thought of Hugh Hefner fills me with loathing. And yet, having seen a 1960s edition relatively recently, there was more in it of middlebrow literature than curvaceous bunnies. Sartre, Fleming and Roald Dahl (from memory). Wasn't John Simons' early projected customer at The Ivy Shop a Playboy reader? It was supposed to go with his 'Modernist', gadget-filled, 60s lifestyle: all 007 and John Steed perhaps.
#9 2011-12-13 02:06:27
- Oo Bop Sh'bam
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Thanks for bumping, Andy.
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#10 2011-12-13 02:12:22
- Chiltern Street
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Yes, I thought it was worthwhile. Tim had a good eye for this kind of thing.
#11 2011-12-13 04:07:40
- Velux
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Id just like to say how good this stuff us. This is an amazing find and well done to the boy who stuck it all on here. Me old mate Johnny has got a great stash of old playboy mags he saud they had good clothes in them. we used to joak with him like saying that the oages were all stiuck togerher and akl that and go on Johnny boy go and have a hand shandy. Now i know he was not lying to us he was telling the truth.
#12 2011-12-13 04:09:17
- Chiltern Street
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Vulgarity we won't stand for.
#13 2011-12-13 05:52:00
- Drink
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
These look great. Er, I actually had something to say about clothes but I've forgotten it now. Anyway, I missed these. Thanks so much for the bump.
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#15 2011-12-13 11:27:31
- steve mcqueen fan
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
"McQueen's message was signaled through subtraction... in a tweed or herringbone jacket and a ribbed swearer he had an electric austerity".
#16 2012-06-27 02:16:27
- Hard Bop Hank
- Ivy Soul Brother
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
February 1954
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#17 2012-07-11 09:22:50
- fxh
- Big Down Under.
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
mega upload has been shut down - no articles
#18 2012-07-11 09:25:07
- Hard Bop Hank
- Ivy Soul Brother
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Damn! That fat Kim...
Someone should upload them again!
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#19 2012-07-11 19:58:50
- fxh
- Big Down Under.
- From: Melbourne
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Re: Playboy Fashion Articles - 1954-1959.
Does anybody have the files?
I was searching because I'd just been reading about Playboy/Hefner in regard to clothes and there is mention of him dressing IVY and the clothing writer Kessie? generally influencing Hef to wear IVY and promote it. And references to Hef previously wearing Zoot suits etc before he settled down to his version of IVY.
Playboy Ivy Jimbo? or Bunny Ivy?
I can look up and type a few quotes if anyone is interested.