Threading the Needle with Richard Press

Origin of the Odd Jacket

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 aftermath.  J.Press was among the...

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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 aftermath.  J.Press was among the...

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The Old Standbys

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, the best white suede...

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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, the best white suede...

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They Got Their Start At J. 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...

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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...

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Origins Of The Ivy League Look

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...

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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...

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Burberry Plaid

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...

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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...

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Pennant Label Co-Op

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...

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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...

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