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tjtevlin:

I attended my daughters’ Holiday Show at their School, today. Very damp and chilly in Jersey. Barbour Bedale, BB Cashmere V-Neck, BB OCBD. A big thank you to @a-trad-confused for gifting me these great items. He sizes down and I benefit.

Looking good pal! I was scrolling and thought that was me for a moment!! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

heavytweedjacket:(HTJ Archives) Tartan Fun Shirts. Brooks...

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:10:32 -0500

heavytweedjacket:

(HTJ Archives) Tartan Fun Shirts. Brooks Brothers began to offer tartan fun shirts around 1987 or so, made from Buchanan, Black Watch, Gordon, MacDonald, and Royal Stewart tartans. The construction of this version of the fun shirt was pretty much the same as the bold stripe version. This means that the linings of the collar, neck band, shoulder yoke, cuff plackets, and cuffs were all made with a contrasting tartan. A lot of work would have gone into these shirts and they remain the best of the lot. The four shirt photo (bottom to top) contains these: c.1987, c.1990, c.1993, and a Huntington version c.1990s. The first version (c.1987) of this shirt was probably made in the old Paterson, NJ factory, before it was closed and manufacturing contracted to outside vendors. On all of the Brooks Brothers versions, the collar and the front placket were made from the same tartan. Like a lot of good things, these aren’t available anymore, but they were perfect with a sweater, quiet herringbone tweed, or a blue flannel blazer.

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Santa arrived early this year!

Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:08:30 -0500

Santa arrived early this year!

1971 Toyota Land Cruiser

Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:01:27 -0500

1971 Toyota Land Cruiser

http://www.saltwaternewengland.com/2016/09/single-image-schooner-dinner-prep.html

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http://www.saltwaternewengland.com/2016/09/single-image-schooner-dinner-prep.html

(via Penny Moc - Brown CXL)

Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:53:21 -0400

(via Penny Moc - Brown CXL)

80-g-2: Bill Cunningham had a great run. I think it should be...

Sun, 03 Jul 2016 07:37:24 -0400

80-g-2:

Bill Cunningham had a great run. I think it should be mandatory for everyone to watch the Cunningham documentary so that you can get a sense of who this reluctant mensch really was.

Anna Wintour said that Bill had been photographing her since she was a kid. And “it is death (at an event) for Bill not to photograph you”.

To say that Bill Cunningham lived a spartan life is inadequate. And they’ll never be another one like him. One could argue that once any one of us is gone, the exactness of our worldly visit will never be duplicated.

But most of us aren’t really unique enough to be considered irreplaceable. Cunningham was.

He cries twice in the documentary. Once during his acceptance talk (Cunningham wasn’t wired to give speeches) in Paris when he received the Legion of Honor. And again during the most intimate discussion that Bill would allow about his personal life.

He then cries when asked about his faith (went to Mass every week. Unfailingly.) and the nature of his deliberate choice to be a loner. I won’t spoil it for you. Watch it.

This man literally lived in what was essentially a storage space in the apartments above Carnegie Hall. A thrifty, plucky Yankee to the end.

But I can assure you this. If the funeral isn’t a small, close friends/family only thing, the legions of New York Society, fashion industry titans, Warhol era publishing operatives and artists, and other world stage biggies attending will be epic. Limousines arriving with people who loved Bill. Bill, the man who always arrived on a bicycle.

And this, for a man who begged to not be a part of it all–just an observer from the fringes.

I’m not sure anyone could leave a kinder, more pure and principled footprint on this temporal world than Bill Cunningham.