J. Press Blog: Threading the Needle by Richard Press

J. Squeeze Football

Once upon a time we dressed up for Ivy League football when J. Press was tagged J. Squeeze by elitist campus cognoscenti. Unfortunately, when I att...

Windows On 44th Street

During the 1930s Irving Press made frequent buying trips to England. One of his favorite venues was the Burlington Arcade, London’s earliest covere...

Paying Homage To The J. Press Brochure

The saga of The J. Press Brochure brings to mind a winter afternoon in the early 1960s when my boss (and Uncle), Irving Press, was busy studying th...

American Menswear

Ivy League Rock Star in Japan

It was the best of times achieving rock-star status during my three trips to Japan in the late ’80s for the annual J. Press convention in Tokyo, a ...

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Sinatra, Sally’s Apizza and J. Press

My introduction to Sally’s Apizza occurred when my Grandfather Jacobi brought my cousins and me to the J. Press Christmas party around 1949. The st...

Mr. Cavett's Clothes

Until the 1960s retailers respected the privacy of their celebrity clientele, the producers of The Dick Cavett Show, however, encouraged me ...Read...

Running the Bulls with Papa Hemingway

J. Press ingratiated me during my early years with a mind-blowing array of celebrities, including a brief sojourn with Ernest Hemingway. It seems l...

A Frosty Reception

The recent cocktail blast celebrated at the J.Press flagship store on 44th Street prompted a query from MC fashion influencer, journalist, and man-...

Milk and Sugar

There was no air conditioning post-World War I when Jacobi Press opened the door of his Yale shop for Dixie favorite 100% cotton seersucke...

Sayonara To Old Nassau

Jacobi Press opened his Princeton branch on Nassau Street in the mid-1930s and assigned my father regular checkups on the store. To read th...

From GI Khaki To Classic Poplin

Captain Irving Press drowned in khaki during World War II running the PX (Post Exchange) store at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Upon his discharge he con...

My Fair J. Press Lady

A trip down Memory Lane; 1959 marked the premiere of the J. Press Ladies’ Department. The initial enthusiasm that spurred the genesis began years p...