Threading the Needle with Richard Press
Road Trip To Smith
Rahar’s was the 1950s home away from home for me and my pals. The watering hole served as the Northampton, Massachusetts headquarters for visiting collegians pursuing female companionship at Smith...
Road Trip To Smith
Rahar’s was the 1950s home away from home for me and my pals. The watering hole served as the Northampton, Massachusetts headquarters for visiting collegians pursuing female companionship at Smith...
Golden Days In New Haven
In 1954 LIFE Magazine declared New Haven home of the Ivy League Look proclaiming, “Sometimes regarded as more of a club than a clothes shop, J. Press is delighted rather...
Golden Days In New Haven
In 1954 LIFE Magazine declared New Haven home of the Ivy League Look proclaiming, “Sometimes regarded as more of a club than a clothes shop, J. Press is delighted rather...
Apologist For Tradition
How did personal taste and idiosyncrasy fit within J. Press offerings and customer consultations when the business was family owned? Here is a digest of three generations of Presses who...
Apologist For Tradition
How did personal taste and idiosyncrasy fit within J. Press offerings and customer consultations when the business was family owned? Here is a digest of three generations of Presses who...
My Seven Year Ivy Itch
Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand did The Way We Were as a movie. I performed it in real life seven years ago at the Ivy Style Exhibit at the Museum of the...
My Seven Year Ivy Itch
Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand did The Way We Were as a movie. I performed it in real life seven years ago at the Ivy Style Exhibit at the Museum of the...
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 attended Dartmouth in the 1950s, my alma...
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 attended Dartmouth in the 1950s, my alma...
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 covered shopping arcade offering luxury goods. His brother...
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 covered shopping arcade offering luxury goods. His brother...