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‘The short, rather baffling book Drake’s 1, described by its printer as a brochure for Drake’s, attempts to show a variety of Drake’s’ different offerings for a worshipful public of readers who don’t need to know how to read – the preferred audience of fashion writers.’

~ Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

Olden lore: Time magazine’s June issue turned its gaze to glen urquhart plaid and presidential style in 1982. On this year, Ronald Reagan toured Europe in a blue-and-gray glen plaid suit, much to the dismay of retinas and camera lenses on both sides of the Atlantic. White House aides decreed that the jacket and trousers, tailored by Frank Mariani from fabric woven by Illingworth, Morris & Co. Ltd., had a whiff of riffraff, political dignitaries had certainly presumed somber tones, GQ — back when it still held the smart title Gentleman’s Quarterly — came to Reagan’s defence. The president remembered the old adage, Don’t panic, and simply stated ‘I like that suit’ — and that was it.

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‘Given that, there is, in fact, no good, functional, technical reason to choose the Goodyear method. It does not make a better shoe. Make no mistake, even the most altruistic manufacturer does not choose a construction method solely because it will allow the masses to better afford a pair of shoes. They choose it because it maximizes some part of the profit stream and sometimes affords access to a market niche that they would otherwise miss.’

~ D.W. Frommer II, bootmaker