Hunting season is here.
Related posts:
– Small Game Hunting in the Old Days
– Illustrations from Works by William Bruce Leffingwell
Category: Culture (page 11 of 27)
A recent piece in the WSJ profiled the use of Twitter by several companies in the fashion world, that I think highlights a transformation in customer/business relationships:
Ms. Bearman is one of several executives who tweet on behalf of luxury fashion brands, masking their marketing in a Carrie-Bradshaw-esque life-stream. Dozens of labels now have a presence on Twitter, the benefits of which are seen most clearly during New York Fashion Week. Tweets come fast and furious during the shows, providing designers with instantaneous feedback from attendees and giving the events a much bigger marketing stage, albeit a virtual one.
When starting a new company or store, opening accounts on Twitter/Facebook/etc should be on the top of the to-do list.
Some things that you might have missed if you’re not following me on twitter:
– Have you heard of Grahame Fowler? Take a look inside his store in NYC. Earlier coverage on The Trad.
– Monocle has a great article in this month’s issue on the business and ethics of the “Made In” labels. (subscription required)
– There is a restock of trousers for fall/winter at Howard Yount, many are already selling out fast.
– Noteworthy blogs to follow: Riveted and welldressed.
– Here’s another Ivy Look interview, in both French and English.
– Slashstroke Magazine makes a visit Nigel Cabourn. Also, did you know his Army Gym flagship store in Japan has a blog?
Ballard Honey is locally produced under unique arrangements: because the city limits the number of bee hives that a person can keep on a single lot, the Ballard Bee Company finds neighbors who are willing to host them in their backyards (or in the case of the Bastille restaurant, their rooftops). It is very clean tasting honey, and comes in a jar with an awesome label. Read more about it on Seattlest.
Made by a local food truck crew, bacon jam is a delicious concoction of meat and is also a great conversation starter. What is it, exactly?
we take a big bunch of really really good bacon, and render it down…add a bunch of spices..onions, etc..and let it simmer for about 6 hours…give it a quick puree, blast chill it…and you have bacon jam…
New jars are now labeled as “bacon spread” – it turns out that in order for these guys to sell it in stores, they cannot use the word “jam” to describe it (by law and in the eyes of the FDA, jam is very specific). Read more about bacon jam in T-Magazine.
Operation Pacific
The Enemy Below
Destination Tokyo
Hellcats of the Navy
Run Silent Run Deep
From a picture taken during his stop in Nome, Alaska after completing a three year long journey through the Northwest Passage. His ship, Gjøa, was the first to do so successfully.
He would later be the first to reach the South Pole.
Related Post: Shackleton, Peary, and Amundsen in Meeting
From the Naval History and Heritage Command: “The Navy Art Collection has over 15,000 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture. It contains depictions of naval ships, personnel, and action from all eras of U.S. naval history, but due to the operation of the Combat Art Program, the eras of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Desert Shield/Storm are particularly well represented.”
Military artists were just recently featured in the NYTimes as well: With Sketchpads and Guns, Semper Fi
Some gems on martinis and family life from an old ad for Beefeater Gin:
Martini men know that the martini can be an ideal introduction to rational discourse among family and friends. Sophisticated diners claim it is the one drink that whets the appetite and prepares the palate for great things to follow…
The great martini, experts agree, is drunk quietly, among friends…
Let the head of the house assume the responsibility for the martini. You can, of course, get someone else to do it – a paid hand on a yacht, a butler if you possess one…
Summon the children just before you mix the martini. Announce to them that it is now grownup’s hour – and they are to pursue their play elsewhere. The martini hour is for those who are going to drink martinis.
It somehow seems appropriate for 1965. Click the image below to see the large version.
The Arrow Collar Man… an early advertising concept and model that preceded the Marlboro Man. From Wikipedia:
The Arrow Collar Man was the name given to the various male models who appeared in advertisements for shirts and detachable shirt collars manufactured by Cluett Peabody & Company of Troy, New York. The original campaign ran from 1905-31 though the company continued to refer to men in its ads and its consumers as “Arrow men” much later.
The Arrow Collar ads were a collaborative production of New York ad agency Calkins and Holden; Cluett, Peabody advertising director Charles Connolly; and commercial illustrator J. C. Leyendecker… President Theodore Roosevelt referred to him as a “superb portrait of the common man”.
He was what American men aspired to be, and most importantly, he always had on the right shirt.
Starring in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best known films, Cary Grant can be seen wearing a grey suit in North By Northwest throughout most of the movie. If you watch closely though, you can notice in some close ups that the fabric is actually a very subtle Prince of Wales pattern in a grey/blue mix.
