With less than 3 weeks remaining until Derby Day (May 4) gentlemen tired of traditional seersucker yet seeking to leave their sartorial mark on the festivities could do worse than visit J Peterman.
Each spring and summer Peterman's catalog includes an entry "The man in the linen suit". Generally, I prefer my clothing without a backstory, but J's write ups are clever and more importantly the story makes you spend more time reading the catalog than you would otherwise. The man in the linen suit has been a Peterman catalog staple for years however for this year they've changed the color, this season it's Ivory.
Ivory linen is the perfect for Derby Day accompanied by mint juleps, pretty girls and fast horses, or...
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They have been sending me catalogues again lately and I'm always tempted. Maybe I will succumb, just as an experiment.
I do love his stuff. Stuff you will never find anywhere else.
I recently watched "The Man in the White Suit" for the first time. It came in a six-pack of Alec Guiness Ealing Studio films that I bought years ago, but I had never got 'round to watching it. Most enjoyable, highly implausible, and frankly unbelievable. But so what? It is a charming film with marvelous actors doing what they do best. Personally, I've never been able to carry off such a thing as a white suit. I once (in college) had a seersucker suit and I felt as if I were in a costume when I wore it (a handfull of times only), back in the 1970s. I do adore my JPress gray and white seersucker jacket, though, which I wear in the summer with tropical weight gray flannels (?) and white bucks, and feel like a million bucks (pun sort of intended) when I do. Reggie
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