A number of menswear illustrations by Robert Goodman, every bit as wonderful as those by Fellows and Saalburg. I've only meant to organize and share these for two or three years! Better late than never I suppose.
-- Heinz-Ulrich
F resh out of the UPS box, three examples of J. Press goodness on a Friday morning. These shirts are replacements for three recently worn-through, more than 20-year old OCBDs from Land's End (two) and L.L. Bean (one). They were purchased shortly after I took my first teaching position at a now defunct local college outside of Minneapolis, immediately following graduate school, as the fall semester kicked off in September 2003. While some professional gear hung in my closet already, a few additional items were needed at that point to round out the weekly rotation. Said shirts all finally fell prey to small rips showing up in the now very thin, but incredibly comfortable, fabric within six weeks of each other this winter and early spring. So, time for a few replacements. The old friends will find new life as summertime lawncare shirts. Of the three new items above, my favorite shirt is on the right, but one cannot go wrong with a light blue OCBD either, so we're in good
I think I prefer these, with the accentuated profiles of Fellowes.
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful. I had seen some of these before and thought they were by Fellowes. Thanks for setting me straight. What a wonderful, lost world. Aspirational, of course as with any commercial advertising and fashion art, but just look at what people were aspiring to, rather than the slovenly, vacant-eyed, pouters in contemporary fashion ads. Many thanks, Heinz-Ulrich.
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