Rebel Without A Suit
The corona virus recession together with changing workplace fashion trends has brought Chapter 11 to several standbys that have lost their way. J. ...
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1960s advertising
Heyday Of The Ivy League Suit
The high watermark of the Ivy League Suit in America coincided with the Kennedy years. J. Press opened its first street level New York store on 16...
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1960s advertising
Sharing the Bloodline
The bloodline that courses through the Press family veins was encapsulated in the presentation of my father, Paul Press’s sport coats front stage i...
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1960s advertising
When Mad Men Ruled The Roost
The party’s over. Madison Avenue sidewalks, bare of shoppers, remain a ghostlike remnant of the celebrated Mad Men era when teeming shoppers and cl...
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American Menswear
Puttin’ On The Ritz
Summertime is when living should be easy. Despite being embattled in face masks and protective gloves, hopefully things may be made a trifle easie...
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American Menswear
When Print Advertising Was King
During the Heyday of Ivy, J. Press featured a resolute advertising program of print ads that regularly adorned the top of Page Two or Three in the ...
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American Menswear
Time Marches On
America’s romance with Yale first blossomed in 1901 when senior Alan Hirsch copyrighted his rousing football song Boola Boola, selling more sheet m...
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Heyday Fraternity House on 44th Street
The 1970s were so uncertain that President Ford told New York to “drop dead.” J. Press at 16 East 44th Street refused to surrender. In 1981, the Ja...
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Yale Hit Parade
Quarantine indolence has jogged my memory as I pored through New Haven newspaper archives coming across an ad promoting Macy’s showroom on York Str...
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To The Tables Down At Mory’s
J. Press New York Headquarters stands tall, shoulder to shoulder with the Yale Club on Vanderbilt and 44th Street. The Whiffenpoofs Song still cast...
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American Menswear
Not Nostrums, But Normalcy
There comes a time to take off the mask and remove quarantine drag for a return to those more privileged times when the living was easy. Following ...
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Growing Up in New Haven
The title of Philip Roth’s 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus refers to a disc recording awarded to graduating Ohio State seniors evoking songs, cheers...
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