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...answer to that question. First, I meet with friends at a sushi restaurant. We are seated in a back room where large parties are sequestered from the intimate parties in the restaurant’s front. At a table next to mine, a young man wearing a tweed jacket arrives from the Porcellian; his friends exhort him to shotgun a Busch, and he eagerly does so, deftly managing to avoid spillage on his clothing. His performance is followed by a blonde’s chugging of her umpteenth beer. Five minutes later, her head lolling, she faintly murmurs...
...Black said of J. Press’s business. “People have always come in for advice on what is good taste, what is appropriate, and what is not. They come for the tradition.” Tradition at J. Press comes in the form of tweed suits, wool scarves, and the pièce de résistance: silk ties, in every color. After all, there’s nothing like neckwear embroidered with tiny baseball players, cocker spaniels, or clowns to encourage people to take you seriously. All patterns, even the hipster-approved skull and crossbones...
...bottom line." The pressure to create something new, however, is intensified by the pressure to move the huge corporate machine. Even John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier, both radical creative catalysts, have had to conform to the corporate spirit of our times. In Galliano's show for Dior, streamlined tweed suits and pared-down chiffon evening dresses in pale shades of gray and pink replaced his signature theatrics...
...looks from kids' clothing companies: Britain's Mini Boden bodenusa.com and crewcuts jcrew.com from the designers of J. Crew. Mini Boden's Big Print T shirts, left, come in three different styles for boys ($22). And crewcuts' ballet flats ($68), right, come in metallic gold or pink tweed...
STATE DEPARTMENT A man in a tweed jacket walked into a heavily guarded office in 1998 and, in full view of two secretaries, looked through a pouch full of classified documents, put many of them in his briefcase and left...