From Gentry Magazine's Winter issue of 1951. A good example of how Trad borrowed from the Brits, made it their own and started screwing up a good thing. Today cheap horn toggles replace the wood toggle and leather strips replace the hemp. The original patch pocket gets a flap and it's usually lined in some ersatz tartan. Some designers have the chutzpah to throw a $1,200 price tag on it.
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Great post! You're right, in your photo the duffle looks very dapper. Today it just reminds me of badly-made school uniforms. Not good. I need to remember how it was in its original form!!
i have that jacket! though I bought it at marshall fields a small while ago, and only dropped "half" of the price you mentioned...but its delicious.
i really love this post!
xo,
WDL
I found a blue one with hemp rope and wood toggles but the pockets have flaps. It was made by that anti-christ, Ralph Lauren. I bought it for 10% of my mentioned price at a Macys somewhere in Delaware.
Shame about Fields on State.
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