Threading the Needle with Richard Press
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 open up Chipp on...
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 open up Chipp on...
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 to recount its rise and...
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 to recount its rise and...
Burberry Plaid
Since the first decade of the twentieth century, my grandfather, the eponymous Jacobi Press, established a longstanding relationship with Welch Margetson, British exporters providing him merchandise resources including woolens, worsteds...
Burberry Plaid
Since the first decade of the twentieth century, my grandfather, the eponymous Jacobi Press, established a longstanding relationship with Welch Margetson, British exporters providing him merchandise resources including woolens, worsteds...
Pennant Label Co-Op
Growing up in New Haven, the Yale Co-Op was an Ivy Heyday version of Target or H & M. Besides books and Yale paraphernalia the “Koop” offered lower price menswear...
Pennant Label Co-Op
Growing up in New Haven, the Yale Co-Op was an Ivy Heyday version of Target or H & M. Besides books and Yale paraphernalia the “Koop” offered lower price menswear...
J. Press Goes Hollywood
Sporting his grandfather Paul Press’ 1969 custom J. Press tuxedo, my son Ben, Head of Film and TV for Coldplay star Chris Martin’s Outlyer Entertainment, attends the circuit of Oscar...
J. Press Goes Hollywood
Sporting his grandfather Paul Press’ 1969 custom J. Press tuxedo, my son Ben, Head of Film and TV for Coldplay star Chris Martin’s Outlyer Entertainment, attends the circuit of Oscar...
Back Where I Belong
My farewell at J. Press five years after the sale of the family business in 1986 was orchestrated by Norbert Ford. Norbert was a charismatic entrepreneur who began his career...
Back Where I Belong
My farewell at J. Press five years after the sale of the family business in 1986 was orchestrated by Norbert Ford. Norbert was a charismatic entrepreneur who began his career...