tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316333665923204856.post6927831970137834091..comments2024-03-15T07:38:55.151-04:00Comments on The Ivy League Look: Wigtown Plaids, Brooks Brothers, 1935katonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756054798234191175noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316333665923204856.post-69687519042664123952009-05-06T13:53:00.000-04:002009-05-06T13:53:00.000-04:00No doubt about that. Jos. A. Bank was also very t...No doubt about that. Jos. A. Bank was also very traditional for a number of years. I'll see what I can find.The Lookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05666240889261504666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316333665923204856.post-60313097907797730192009-05-06T13:46:00.000-04:002009-05-06T13:46:00.000-04:00Huntington may not exactly fit your time frame, bu...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.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316333665923204856.post-48491100878385516872009-05-06T11:23:00.000-04:002009-05-06T11:23:00.000-04:00Anon,
Huntington Clothiers (est. 1977) doesn't qu...Anon,<br /><br />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).<br /><br />From a 2000 article on directmag.com:<br /><br />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."<br /><br />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!"The Lookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05666240889261504666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316333665923204856.post-4473171618511491732009-05-06T01:56:00.000-04:002009-05-06T01:56:00.000-04:00Now, if you're able to find and scan an old Huntin...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.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com