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Although not strictly "Ivy," this advertisement is notable for the illustration by Paul Desmond Brown.
Source:
Newsweek - 11/9/35, via The Retro Press blog
May 6, 2009
Wigtown Plaids, Brooks Brothers, 1935
Although not strictly "Ivy," this advertisement is notable for the illustration by Paul Desmond Brown.
Source:
Newsweek - 11/9/35, via The Retro Press blog
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Now, if you're able to find and scan an old Huntington Clothiers ad (I believe they appeared in the New Yorker) or a catalog from the same firm, you'll deserve a Nobel Prize, at the very least.
Anon,
Huntington Clothiers (est. 1977) doesn't quite fit into the time period that I've chosen for this blog (although I, too, would like to see scans of old HC catalogs).
From a 2000 article on directmag.com:
Michael Stern, CEO, Huntington Clothiers and Shirtmakers - In 1977, Mike says, "It looked like polyester was going to take over the world. I couldn't find a cotton shirt in all of Columbus, Ohio, a city of over a million people." So he and his wife started a catalog at the kitchen table. "I was a refugee from the advertising business," Mike says, with design and marketing savvy. Hiring out the manufacturing, they ran the operation from home "complete with dogs barking in the background and kids answering the phones."
Mike says he never wanted to be a shopkeeper and knew they would look more substantial if they had a catalog rather than a store "not unlike the Internet business today." Sure it was a risk, he remembers, but "I was average in size, 15-to-16-1/2, and I figured the downside was a lifetime of blue oxford-cloth shirts!"
Huntington may not exactly fit your time frame, but, if I remember correctly, they were even more purist, in many ways, than the Brothers Brooks or Jacobi Press, e.g., they never sold garishly striped ties like both BB and JP did and still do.
No doubt about that. Jos. A. Bank was also very traditional for a number of years. I'll see what I can find.
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