Threading the Needle with Richard Press
White Ducks Are Still Quacking
You don’t have to be a Kennedy to wear white ducks these days. Former Brown University football teammates Reiley Higgins and Alex Quoyesar continued bonding @latimes in white ducks en...
White Ducks Are Still Quacking
You don’t have to be a Kennedy to wear white ducks these days. Former Brown University football teammates Reiley Higgins and Alex Quoyesar continued bonding @latimes in white ducks en...
Salty Vibes
The preppy 1980s are gone with the wind. Preppy Handbook author, speaker and humorist Lisa Birnbach memorably offered the era’s final beach wear lesson in her preppy Bible: “Madras swim...
Salty Vibes
The preppy 1980s are gone with the wind. Preppy Handbook author, speaker and humorist Lisa Birnbach memorably offered the era’s final beach wear lesson in her preppy Bible: “Madras swim...
Cynosure of American Style
Since 1915 the Brooks Brothers headquarters stood entrenched on 346 Madison Avenue, the Rock of Gibraltar, warp and woof of establishment power.  Brooks Brothers even motivated my grandfather, the eponymous J. Press to...
Cynosure of American Style
Since 1915 the Brooks Brothers headquarters stood entrenched on 346 Madison Avenue, the Rock of Gibraltar, warp and woof of establishment power.  Brooks Brothers even motivated my grandfather, the eponymous J. Press to...
Fade In Fade Out With Nantucket Reds
When J. Press was a family business it was calumny for anyone close to Irving and Paul Press to dare wear an outside brand. Irving Press broke his own rule...
Fade In Fade Out With Nantucket Reds
When J. Press was a family business it was calumny for anyone close to Irving and Paul Press to dare wear an outside brand. Irving Press broke his own rule...
Zing Went The Strings of My Heart
 Vintage signifies enduring, lasting, long-lived. My once upon a time idea for a J. Press vintage shop never happened in the family business, but finally came true with the...
Zing Went The Strings of My Heart
 Vintage signifies enduring, lasting, long-lived. My once upon a time idea for a J. Press vintage shop never happened in the family business, but finally came true with the...
The Beatles, Pinkerton and J. Press
Madison and 44th Street wasn’t strictly Camelot during the early 1960s. The thriving menswear retail neighborhood attracted swaths of shoplifters. A daytime nightmare occurred on an otherwise uneventful early spring...
The Beatles, Pinkerton and J. Press
Madison and 44th Street wasn’t strictly Camelot during the early 1960s. The thriving menswear retail neighborhood attracted swaths of shoplifters. A daytime nightmare occurred on an otherwise uneventful early spring...