SET 1! 10 WONDERFUL Summer Sports Jackets! Sz. 38 - 50. Vintage, Seersucker, GORGEOUS Hilton, more!

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1) Vintage Summer Plaid Jacket from PBM!

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PMB (Pincus Bros Maxwell) was founded in 1911, and is one of the great traditional American clothiers, making most of their items in Philadelphia--hence the Liberty Bell on their labels!

This wonderful jacket was certainly made in Philadelphia, hailing as it does from the late 1960s to early 1970s. The lighter-weight wool cloth that it is cut from is a lovely rare summer check that's versatile enough to take you through the early Fall, to be resumed in the Spring--the lighter colours aren't really suitable for Winter, unless you live in a warm climate.

Cut as a contemporary two button jacket with subtle darts, this was made for Jack Donnelly's of Trenton, back when Donnelly's was (a) open, (b) Trenton was the place to be in NJ, and (c) Donnelly's was a great high-end men's store serving local politicos and visiting Princetonians. This is half-canvassed and half-lined, and has a single center vent. It features crested brass buttons. And, best of all, not only are the lower exterior pockets flapped--the exterior breast pocket is flapped, too!

Union made in the USA, this is in excellent condition apart from a tiny brown spot on the right shoulder which will come off with the first dry-cleaning.

Asking just $35, or offer, shipped in the USA.

Measurements:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 26 (+2)
Shoulder: 19 3/4
Length: 31 1/2

2) ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS Nick Hilton Summer Jacket



This jacket is absolutely BEAUTIFUL--my pictures don't do it justice at all!​

Made for Nick Hilton, the Princeton clothing store that is owned by the son of Norman Hilton, the man who was largely responsible for the Ivy Style of the Golden Age, this jacket is cut from a summer blend of wool, silk, and linen, which gives it a wonderful hand and drape. The patterning and colourway of the fabric do full justice to the summery quality of the cloth; the checking is a wonderful medley of sky blue, lavender, light black and bracken--a mixture that is so subtle that try as I might the horizontal lavender stripes kept showing as the same colour as the vertical blue stripes in my pictures!

The Summer colouring of the jacket is continued in the interior, with sky blue facings on the leading edges of the interior pockets.

The jacket is cut as Hilton's "Gibson" model--a contemporary two button jacket with subtle darts and dual center vent. It features pick stitching in the lining. It is half-canvassed and fully lined, and features four buttons cuffs. It was made in Canada, and is in is in absolutely excellent condition.

Asking just $49, or offer.

Tagged 50L, this measures:

Chest: 24 1/2
Sleeve: 27 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 20 3/4
Length: 32 1/2

 

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3) Summer Glen Plaid jacket!

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Union made in the USA for Neiman Marcus, this is a lovely versatile Summer jacket. Although there is no fabric content listed this appears to be a lightweight blend of wool and silk with a lovely hand and drape. The patterning and colourway are wonderfully summery; a lovely Glen Plaid in creams, slate grey, and taupe.

Cut as a contemporary two button jacket with subtle darts this is fully lined and half-canvassed with a single center vent. It is in absolutely excellent condition, except for a two stitch repair in the lining at the shoulders.

Asking just $29, or offer.

Tagged 42R. This measures:
Chest: 21
Sleeve: 24 3/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 18 1/2
Length: 30 1/4

4) CLASSIC SEERSUCKER JACKET, from Haspel!

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Joseph Haspel founded Haspel in New Orleans in 1909 with the express aim of creating clothing that could be worn comfortably in the sub-tropical humidity of the Deep South. Recognizing that the British used seersucker widely in their tropical colonies, he created seersucker suits and jackets. These were immediately successful, and were imported into the Ivy League look by way of Princeton, long the traditional Ivy for men from the South. (And long only *men* from the South... True to the conservatism of ts student population Princeton , shockingly, didn't fully admit women until 1969.)

This is a lovely example of a contemporary Haspel seersucker jacket! Pure cotton, this is cut as a contemporary two-button jacket with subtle darts. It is quarter-lined, has a single center vent, and three button cuffs. It does have some minor discoloration at the collar turn, as shown--I only saw this when photographing in bright sunlight! Otherwise, it's in absolutely excellent condition, and is a steal at

just $29, or offer, boxed and shipped in the USA.

Tagged 48R. Measurements:

Chest: 25
Sleeve: 26 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder:21
Length: 30 5/8

 

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5) Made in Italy Summer-weight 3/2 Blazer from Zegna!

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This is lovely! Cut from lightweight wool that makes this perfect for summer wear this lovely jacket from Ermenegildo Zegna is cut as a 3/2 jacket with a lovely fluid lapel roll. The patterning and colourway are lovely--a lighter navy blue with a broken-line overchecking in cream and slate grey.

The jacket has subtle darts for the proper Continental silhouette, four button cuffs, and is unvented. It is fully lined and half-canvassed, and was Made in Italy.

It is in absolutely excellent condition, and is formal enough for office wear.

Asking just $45, or offer.

Tagged (EU) 54 (US 44), this measures:

Chest: 22 1/4
Sleeve: 23 3/4 (+2 1/2)
Shoulder: 20
Length: 32 1/4

6) VINTAGE Langrock 3/2 sack Summer Blazer

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Langrock was THE Ivy Store in Princeton, and, with Norman Hilton, was largely responsible for the TNSIL ("The Natural Shoulder Ivy League") look of the Golden Age of Ivy Style. While the rumor that Langrock refused to sell darted jackets is appealing but false, it is certainly true that Langrock focused almost obsessively on the Anglophilic Ivy look, with Harris tweeds, shetland sweaters, and 3/2 sacks galore in its store. Its claim to have been the "defender of the Ivy league Look" is well-justified!

Since Langrock was so wedded to traditional, classic clothing and fabrics such as Harris tweed and shetland wool it might come as a surprise to realize that it occasionally carried clothing that included polyester. Yet this isn't as surprising as it might sound--for the polyester of the 1960s was NOT the polyester of today.... It was far better, and could often feel just like the fabric that it was being used to mimic of reinforce. (I've handled 1960s polyester ties that could pass easily for silk, and 1960s polyester jackets that felt just like wool.) To be sure, while the vintage polyester could mimic the feel of natural fibers it simply couldn't perform like them... and so by the mid-1960s stores such as Langrock were only willing to have polyester as part of mixed-fiber clothing. The clothing still felt the same as natural fiber, but it was sturdier, and more durable owing to the polyester content--and the performance wasn't significantly compromised as the majority of the fibers were still natural.

That's the case here, with this classic 3/2 sack summer blazer from Langrock. Cut from a lightweight poly-wool hopsack cloth that's excellent for summer, this 3/2 sack has a single center vent and a half-lining. It is half-canvassed, and features the classic two button cuffs. It has subtle contrast stitching on the lapels and the placket, and contrasting cream buttons on the cuffs and on the front--these are original to the jacket. It features patch pockets!

It was, of course, Union made in the USA.

It does have some minor issues. There is some fraying in the lining at the shoulder and by the interior pockets, as shown; these are easy fixes or could simply be ignored. It has a smudge on the underside of the left-hand cuff, and could do with a dry clean to freshen it up. It is, however, fully wearable, and would make a perfect casual--and VERY Trad!--blazer for summer.

Asking just $25, or offer.

Tagged 48, this measures:

Chest: 23 1/4
Sleeve: 22 1/2 (+2 1/2)
Shoulder: 19 3/4
Length: 30 1/4

 

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7) Lovely Red Summer "Resort Blazer"!

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The "Summer Resort Blazer" is a preppy classic. A very casual blazer designed for wearing at resorts--where else?--the classic "RB" comes in a solid color (preferably fairly bright!), has patch pockets to indicate clearly that it's a casual item, and crested brass buttons. It should also be either very lightweight wool or hopsack, and Made in the USA.

This lovely example meets all of these desiderata! A lovely shade of Tropical Red, this has patch pockets, crested brass buttons, a full lining, and a single center vent. And it was, of course, Made in the USA from lightweight wool in a hopsack weave!

A lovely fun item to round out a classic summer wardrobe!

Asking just $29, or offer, boxed and shipped in the USA.

Chest: 21 1/4
Sleeve: 26 (+ 1 3/4)
Shoulder: 19 1/4
length: 32 1/4

8) CLASSIC Vintage Two-Button Sack Summer Blazer in Cotton

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Mark, Fore, & Strike are something of a "sleeper" company. Founded on Cape Cod in 1951, they stayed small and continued to focus on what they did best--making classic clothing for (in their words!) "a select group of people who had a good deal of money and plenty of leisure time -- and the desire to dress nicely for it".

Every piece of clothing I've seen from them has been excellent! At first, I thought they were a company that made high-end reproductions of classic American clothing from the Golden Age, but then I realized that they were simply making clothing the way that they'd always made it. Their jackets weren't reproductions of 1960s clothing--they either were 1960s clothing, or else they were made to precisely the same specifications as the company had used in the 1960s!

This jacket is no exception. A classic two-button sack jacket, this is cut from sturdy yet breathable cotton in a lovely shade of deep summer blue. This features contrasting cream buttons, a single center hook vent, a half-lining, and half-canvassing. It was, of course, Union Made in the USA.... and although its excellent condition indicates that it was made very recently it actually dates from the mid-1960s!

This is a wonderful opportunity to acquire a lovely original vintage summer sack jacket at the bargain price of just $35!

Chest: 20
Sleeve: 25 1/4 (+2)
Shoulder: 18 3/4
Length: 31 1/2

 

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9) GORGEOUS Bespoke Summer Jacket!

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This is beautiful! Custom made for the New York titan of industry Peter Riguardi (the President of Jones Lang LaSalle, the major commercial real estate broker firm of New York) by the highly exclusive New York custom tailor Mark Thiesfeld this is a Continental-style jacket with a high three button front closure. It features subtle darts, which not only provide it with a neat silhouette but allow Thiesfeld to demonstrate his superb pattern-matching skills. It also features extensive handwork, including some superb pick-stitching in the lining.

Since this is bespoke there is no indication of the cloth used, but it appears to be a lovely lightweight summer worsted wool. The colouring and patterning are beautiful--a light lichen green base with overchecking in cream and baby blue.

The jacket is fully canvassed and fully lined, and features American four button cuffs. It is twin vented, and was, of course, Made in the USA!

It is in absolutely excellent condition!

Asking just $45, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 23
Sleeve: 24 1/4 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 19 1/2
Length: 30 1/4

10) Recent Brooks Brothers Summer jacket in wool and silk.



Tags and spare buttons included!​

A recent--and very beautiful--offering from Brooks Brothers, this lovely summer jacket is cut from cloth that's a blend of 65% wool and 35% silk, providing it with a wonderful hand and interesting texture. The base of this jacket is an unusual birdseye weave in dull lichen green and cream, with a wonderfully subtle overcheck in berry red, sky blue, summer green and burnt umber.

The jacket is cut as a contemporary two button jacket with subtle darts. It is fully lined and half-canvassed and has a single center vent. It features three button cuffs.

It comes complete with its original sleeve tag and packet of spare buttons. It is in absolutely excellent condition.

Made in the USA.

Asking just $45, or offer.

Tagged 43L, this measures:

Chest: 22 3/8
Sleeve: 26 1/2 (+2)
Shoulder: 20
Length: 33

 

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