Threading the Needle with Richard Press
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...
No Helmets Or Padding
Football great Joe Theismann comparing his football time to Rugby, “The players don’t wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go...
No Helmets Or Padding
Football great Joe Theismann comparing his football time to Rugby, “The players don’t wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go...
Brioni, Sinatra & J. Press
G. Bruce Boyer, pal and acknowledged menswear authority, recently queried me about J. Press and Brioni. He disclosed a recent conversation with Joe Barrato wondering if I knew him. Mr....
Brioni, Sinatra & J. Press
G. Bruce Boyer, pal and acknowledged menswear authority, recently queried me about J. Press and Brioni. He disclosed a recent conversation with Joe Barrato wondering if I knew him. Mr....
Taking the Measure of Kim Novak
J. Press customer Frank Sinatra famously warbled, “Regrets I’ve had a few.” One of my regrets to this day is that I wasn’t around to fondle a tape measure around...
Taking the Measure of Kim Novak
J. Press customer Frank Sinatra famously warbled, “Regrets I’ve had a few.” One of my regrets to this day is that I wasn’t around to fondle a tape measure around...