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J. Press to Reopen Store in New Haven
The Ivy League retailer was founded in the Connecticut
city in 1902.
By
JEAN E.
PALMIERI
JANUARY 28,
2022, 2:16PM
https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/j-press-to-reopen-store-in-new-haven-1235056934/
The preppy
retailer, which was founded in New Haven, Conn., in the shadows of Yale
University in 1902, is reopening a store in that city this spring.
J. Press
operated a store at 262 York Street in New Haven for over a century until 2013
when it was severely damaged by a storm. It has been operating in temporary
spaces since then, but the company, which is owned by Onward Kashiyama in
Japan, has secured a new permanent location adjacent to the old one at 262 Elm
Street. The 1,780-square-foot location is scheduled to open in May.
The
two-level store is designed with a classic yet modern aesthetic intended to
bridge the gap between a traditional haberdashery and a contemporary clothier.
Over the years, J. Press has defined Ivy League style with its Shaggy Dog Shetland
sweaters, oxford button-down shirts and blue blazers. The new store will house
the Heritage and Pennant collections along with sportswear on the first floor
while tailored clothing, the made-to-measure department, custom shirts and a
tailor shop will be upstairs. The building will also house the J. Press
e-commerce distribution center and administrative offices.
“J. Press
has a long history in New Haven and we are thrilled to find a permanent home
for our store in the city of our founding,” said Jun Murakami, president of J.
Press USA. “We look forward to continuing the rich tradition of classic
American style for years to come.”
J. Press
was founded by Jacobi Press, a Latvian immigrant, who opened a store on the
campus of Yale University, and has been owned by Onward Kashiyama since 1986.
It currently operates units on 44th Street in Manhattan as well as on L Street
NW in Washington, D.C. There is also a freestanding store in Tokyo and 83
shop-in-shops in Japan.
J. Press is
a traditional men's clothier founded in 1902 on Yale University's campus in New
Haven, Connecticut by Jacobi Press. The brand also has stores in New York City
and Washington, D.C.. In 1974, the Press family sold the rights to license J.
Press for the Japanese market, making it the first American brand to be
licensed in Japan. In 1986, J. Press was acquired by the Japanese apparel
company Onward Kashiyama, who had previously been his licensee for 14 years.
Japanese licensed distribution is roughly six times larger than the
American-made J. Press. J. Press is currently part of the Onward Group (Onward
Holdings, Ltd.).
Founder
Jacobi Press in New Haven, CT.
Jacobi
Press immigrated to the US from Latvia in 1896 and founded the company six
years later.
Since its
founding, J. Press' clothing has remained much the same. For example, the
company produces the vast majority of its off-the-rack jackets in the traditional
"three-button sack" style rarely found today in America, and for the
most part, only produces plain-front trousers, for which the company suggests a
traditional 13⁄4" cuff. Fabrics are generally subdued, except for
traditionally bright-colored items such as casual trousers and sweaters. Its
neckties bear traditional repp stripe, foulard, and paisley motifs. They also
carry scarves and ties featuring motifs and colors for Ivy League schools,
including Yale's Skull and Bones Society. J. Press dress overcoats are of
lambswool, cashmere, or camel hair, or of herringbone tweed with a velvet
collar in the Chesterfield style.
New Haven
Store
Ties from
the J. Press spring/summer 1962 catalog
J. Press is
said to carry on a traditional Ivy League style of men's clothing.J. Press
caters most to an old-fashioned preppy subculture that eschews popular culture
trends. The company makes an effort not to outsource the production of its
clothing to developing countries or to use synthetic materials in its line.
Stores
The New
Haven store was originally built in 1863 in the French Second Empire style as a
residence for Cornelius Pierpont, a prominent local grocer. It was irreparably
damaged by Winter Storm Nemo in February 2013; the company is temporarily renting
a store at 260 College St., across from the Shubert Theatre.
In 1912,
the company opened a store in New York “appropriately equidistant from the Yale
and Harvard Clubs.”
In May
2007, J. Press moved to 380 Madison Avenue in New York City,[1] which closed
indefinitely in 2014.
J. Press
opened another store in New York on March 1, 2013, located at 304 Bleecker
Street, which carries a younger subset of its line initially named “York
Street,” called by the New York Times “a faint outline of the original,” and
later renamed “J. Press Blue.”
In October
2017, J. Press closed the York Street store and opened a new store in midtown
Manhattan, in the same building as the Yale Club. The store was expected to
generate 25% of U.S. sales. J Press has been constructing a new larger four
story retail storefront at the original 260 York St., New Haven location.
J. Press
formerly had branches in Cambridge, Massachusetts (closed in August 2018 after
86 years),San Francisco, California and Princeton, New Jersey.
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