J. Press Blog: Threading the Needle by Richard Press

Scrutinizing Privilege

A recent book review @nytimes of Quiet Street, chronicles Nick McDonell’s take on America’s most entrenched elite and his personal history within i...

Tempus Fugit

Perusing through the myriad of interviews I participated in over the past several years, I came across one I had forgotten about with “Jack” at the...

A Fresh Take On Ivy

No stranger to a fresh take on Ivy, I got mine 68 years ago arriving in Hanover, my freshman year at Dartmouth. J. Press currently revises its par...

Always Leave Them Laughing

Several weeks back I spent a couple of Friday afternoons having a cordial digital conversation with one of America’s top 500 Podcasters, Brian McCa...

The Sport Coat & The Blazer

Although the terms blazer and sport coat have become interchangeable, J. Press expands the horizons—how to have them fitted, suggested styles of co...

The Art Of Getting Dressed

A grab bag of columns featuring J. Press have recently been featured in the public domain. Peter Tonguette, has written about literature, film, and...

The Philosophy Of Style

All hail Christian Chensvold for the unveiling of his brilliant and all-encompassing book The Philosophy Of Style. No apologies. Christian has been...

Origin of the Odd Jacket

The eponymous J. (Jacobi Press) was largely responsible for the so-called Odd Jacket (sport coat) in America. All because of World War I and its af...

The Old Standbys

J. Press brings a long-standing staple of Ivy Style, the white buck. Made exclusively for us in the UK, the old-time favorite returns to the fore, ...

They Got Their Start At J. Press

The art of learning the business and leaving J. Press started in Cambridge in the late nineteen thirties. Mort Sill and Jonas Arnold took off to op...

Origins Of The Ivy League Look

“More than half a century after its heyday, the Ivy Look has become a historical curiosity. And it has fallen to Jacobi Press’s grandson Richard t...

Burberry Plaid

Since the first decade of the twentieth century, my grandfather, the eponymous Jacobi Press, established a longstanding relationship with Welch Mar...