Threading the Needle with Richard Press

Clinching The Pennant

Clinching The Pennant

The World Series might be hovering around the corner, but J. Press has already clinched the pennant with its Fall/Winter 2024 Pennant label collection featuring the base paths of American...

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Clinching The Pennant

The World Series might be hovering around the corner, but J. Press has already clinched the pennant with its Fall/Winter 2024 Pennant label collection featuring the base paths of American...

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Living Well Is The Best Revenge

Living Well Is The Best Revenge

My recent column commemorating the mind-blowing time best friend Gene Mercy and I spent in Pamplona in 1959 with Ernest Hemingway rekindled my early lust for the literary and cultural...

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Living Well Is The Best Revenge

My recent column commemorating the mind-blowing time best friend Gene Mercy and I spent in Pamplona in 1959 with Ernest Hemingway rekindled my early lust for the literary and cultural...

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Confessions of An Influencer

Confessions of An Influencer

During the recent J. Press Summer Bash one of the partygoers offered a supposed compliment telling me I am his favorite Influencer. I don’t know from being an Influencer. I...

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Confessions of An Influencer

During the recent J. Press Summer Bash one of the partygoers offered a supposed compliment telling me I am his favorite Influencer. I don’t know from being an Influencer. I...

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Goodbye To All That

Goodbye To All That

The above is a snapshot of me with my recently deceased and beloved Loomis Chaffee ‘55 roomie, best man, and best friend Gene Mercy. Enclosed is an earlier column and...

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Goodbye To All That

The above is a snapshot of me with my recently deceased and beloved Loomis Chaffee ‘55 roomie, best man, and best friend Gene Mercy. Enclosed is an earlier column and...

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Press Family Legacy

Press Family Legacy

The J. Press Look has indeed evolved since the eponymous founder, my grandfather, opened the door adjacent to the Yale campus taking over the former civil war custom tailor shop...

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Press Family Legacy

The J. Press Look has indeed evolved since the eponymous founder, my grandfather, opened the door adjacent to the Yale campus taking over the former civil war custom tailor shop...

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Summer Bash

Summer Bash

Much jocose persiflage at the recent Seersucker/Madras bash at the J. Press NYC headquarters on 44th Street with fumes of St. Johns Bay Rum and new Madras scent wafting into...

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Summer Bash

Much jocose persiflage at the recent Seersucker/Madras bash at the J. Press NYC headquarters on 44th Street with fumes of St. Johns Bay Rum and new Madras scent wafting into...

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