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Lloyd Johnson, Sea Cruise Jacket, 1971

#la rocka #lloyd johnson #rockabilly #retro #vintage #menswear

Hardy & Johnson Olive Cord Ivy League style Sack Jacket - 6 only being made. Sublime tailoring.

Also this cotton gaberdine suite from them.

Contact them at Facebook via: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hardyandjohnson/

#ivy look #british menswear #chris hardy #lloyd johnson #modernist

New limited edition Ivy League 3/2 roll wool sack jackets designed to carry on the tradition by Hardy & Johnson. Two dedicated stylists with a heritage that stretches back to the earliest days of UK modernism.

The jackets have all the important aspects - sack jackets without darts, rolled lapels, natural shoulders, flapped patch pockets, the right herringbone, Donegal & Prince of Wales patters, raised seams, swelled edges and hooked vents. These are jackets made with care and knowledge for the details that matter to those who appreciate this style.

They do not have a shop and operate via direct contact, on-line or with ability to visit them in London. Their prices are very reasonable and compare well to recent herringbone wool jackets from Barbour and J.Keydge (and are much less than premium fashion brands).

This final jacket in the new range may look familiar from the cover of ‘Hollywood & the Ivy Look’ book as they have recreated this signature item.

Read more and see further pictures: http://forums.filmnoirbuff.com/viewtopic.php?id=10627&p=13

and make contact: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hardyandjohnson

I am pleased to celebrate their true craft carrying on tradition and quality in this era.

#ivy look #mod #john simons #hardy & johnson #lloyd johnson #modernist #hollywood and the ivy look

Tides of Trends - Don't blame the Hipster

I just read this great article on the Guardian online all about end of the ‘hipster’ trend. It talks about how the original concept of the hipster - a subculture of men and women that value independent thinking and counter culture - initially used in the 40s in reference youths that fought the norm - listened to jazz music, followed their own path wherever it took them. It now has become a general description of anyone who wants to look, think and behave in a certain way, key areas being for men; sporting a large beard, turned up jeans, tattoos etc and for women; stripes, oversize denim jackets AND jeans, thick rimmed glasses, hat perched on the back of ones head, big sweatshirts. It also touches on the now negative connotations of being a certain type of hipster (the apparently fake one…) - trying too hard, going through the motions, living on mummy and daddy’s bank roll etc etc.

It got me thinking back to the Lloyd Johnson exhibition I worked on at CHELSEA space - based all on the rocker clothing designs of Lloyd Johnson - a clear mod. The rockers and the mods both followed these trends to break away from the post war government and society they were brought up in.It was such a new concept that to actually commit to the movement in any way meant you could only go whole heartedly fourth into breaking cultural rules and you were making your own clothes and searching for elusive literature and music and events you needed for the ride.

This got me thinking, are we viewing these new trends and the people who follow them in the same way as older trends have been viewed - as forward thinking avant garde styles and people who are trying to view the world in a new radical way. When really maybe we should be viewing them differently… For me a lot of the newer trends I see, hipster, normcore etc etc have been born during the internet culture, where more and more information has been available to anyone who wants to find it - Google current fashion trends and you get 54,600,000 results. Specifying to hipster trends still results in 7,640,000 hits, that’s a pretty confusing place to try and find your voice.

We’re overloaded with magazines, social media and the internet which all depict what is the most cool and avant guarde ways to dress, think and be seen and we now have everything possible available to us at the drop of your hat. I think it’s this overload that has changed the way we find our styles. No longer are people trying to push the boundaries of their lifestyle and using a trend to define what they believe in and explore new ways of thinking. Instead these new trends provide a way for people to find a place and a community to define themselves by.

Yes this seems less rock and roll and for a while I’ll admit I was saddened that my generation looked unlikely to make any leaps forward in culture. But instead we’ve hit this technological revolution and we’re all fighting to acclimatise and find a place within a world that is much smaller.

So my new perspective on trends - hipsters or others. Is that this is my generation’s way of coping with a quickly changing world, finding a sense of community when we don’t talk to each other anymore and when someone on the other side of the world can be as close as your mates on the other side of a city. So we don the clothes, the accent, the interests and exist as a part of something until we know ourselves better in this overloaded world….

Don’t blame the hipster, they’re just trying to fit in…!

Here is the article that prompted this rather heavy Monday action.

#hipster #guardiamonline #chelseaspace #lloyd johnson #CaitlinSmyth #trending now