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...guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Harvard, with its ivy-covered buildings and portrait-covered walls, is the epitome of New England pomp (or charm; call it what you will). But button-down shirts tucked into khakis, wool sweaters worn over collared shirts, and tweed jackets with suede elbow patches? Such spruce style goes against every notion I have of what it means to be male and in college. After some digging through The Crimson’s archives, I realized that varsity sweaters and schoolboy blazers are just as central to the pretense...
...eye” onto the man who created the world’s first national park system. The project brought him to campus, home to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection in the Harvard College Library, which is now holding an exhibit in Pusey Library through Dec. 23. Tweed Roosevelt ’64, Vice-Chair of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, says that the association was more than happy to facilitate Burn’s work. “Books reach many Americans. But films reach many, many more,” he said. Burns is famous for bringing history to life...
Sherlock Holmes became a tweed icon at the turn of the last century after sporting nubby wool capes while on the trail of London's miscreants. Ralph Lauren's first collection in 1968 made the tweed suit a menswear staple. And now Lower East Side hipsters can't seem to get enough of the classic suiting fabric, signaling that tweed is staging a comeback. For his fall collection, Junya Watanabe spun the storied fabric into schoolboy blazers nostalgic for jaunts across Cambridge's Bridge of Sighs. And with the recent sartorial resurgence, it's no surprise that tweed is migrating...
...Junya Watanabe Man brown tweed jacket ($1,595), red-and-white gingham shirt ($380) and brown corduroy pants with leather patch pockets ($465; Comme des Garons N.Y., 212-604-9200) 2 Loro Piana baby cashmere scarf ($775; loropiana.com 3 Alfredo Hberli for Alias Taormina chair in Kvadrat fabric ($940; aliasusa.com 4 J. Crew tweed fedora hat ($68; jcrew.com 5 Etro nylon and tweed men's bag ($1,400; etro.it) 6 Alexander Olch blue and gray herringbone tie ($160; Bergdorf Goodman Men's, 212-753-7300) 7 Harrys of London Mansion slippers ($650; San Giorgio Shoes...
...Ken’s greatest accomplishments has been to solve the puzzle of how to bring a subject to film which is documented almost entirely by photographs,” Tweed Roosevelt ’64, Theodore’s great-grandson, said before the screening...