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I found these trophies during my last visit to London.

 

I found these trophies during my last visit to London.

These were all found in second hand shops.

Cuff links, From Top:

• Ireland
• St Andrews Scotland
• Kings College Cambridge

Christ's College was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House, on land which was soon after sold to enable the enlargement of King's College. Byngham obtained the first royal licence for God's House in July 1439. The college was founded to provide for the lack of grammar-school masters in England at the time, and the college has been described as "the first secondary-school training college on record".The original site of Godshouse was surrendered in 1443 to King's College, and currently about three-quarters of King's College Chapel stands on the original site of God's House.

 

After the original royal licence of 1439, three more licences, two in 1442 and one in 1446, were granted before in 1448 God's House received the charter upon which the college was in fact founded. In this charter, King Henry VI was named as the founder, and in the same year the college moved to its current site.

 

In 1505, the college was endowed by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, and was given the name Christ's College, perhaps at the suggestion of her confessor, the Bishop John Fisher. The expansion in the population of the college in the seventeenth century led to the building, in the 1640s, of the Fellows' Building in what is now Second Court.

Harvard Club of Boston

The Harvard Club of Boston is a private social club located in Boston, Massachusetts. Its membership is open to alumni and associates of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.The Back Bay Clubhouse is located in Boston's historic Back Bay neighborhood, at 374 Commonwealth Avenue.

The Harvard Club was founded by a group of 22 Harvard University alumni in 1908. The original dues were $5.00 per year, and by the end of the year, more than 1,200 members had joined. The first president, Henry Lee Higginson, was also the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1909, the Club established its first scholarships, awarding grants of $200 to local high school students who would be attending Harvard. One of the first recipients of these scholarships, James Bryant Conant, went on to become the 23rd president of Harvard. In 1912–1913, the Club decided to construct a clubhouse, the Back Bay Clubhouse at 374 Commonwealth Avenue. In 1925, eight squash courts were built. During the Great Depression the Club acted as an employment agency, posting a list of positions needed by members who were out of a job. During World War II, cots were placed in these courts and lodging was offered to military officers at the cost of $1.50 per night.

 

In 1971, women, once limited to dining in the women's annex while the men dined in Harvard Hall, were welcomed as full and active members for the first time in the Club's history. In 1976, the Downtown Clubhouse was purchased at One Federal Street, providing a location more convenient to most of Boston's offices.

 

21st century

In 2003, the Downtown Clubhouse underwent a $2.5 million renovation.In 2015, a $16 million renovation of the Back Bay Clubhouse was completed, providing members with new dining spaces, a wine room, enhanced function and member spaces, renovated overnight rooms, a new elevator, and upgraded athletics center.

 

In 2016, after 108 years, the Club elected its first female President, Karen Van Winkle, a Harvard College alumnus and native of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ms. Van Winkle's three-year term, ushered in a new era for the organization as it grows and diversifies its membership and enhances its presence in Greater Boston.

 

In 2016, the Club was named a Platinum Club of America, an award given to only the top 4% of private clubs nationwide. In 2017, Harvard Hall at the Back Bay Clubhouse was named "Best Ballroom" in the city by Boston magazine. And, in 2018 the Club was named a Platinum Club of the World – the only private city club in New England to achieve this distinction. The Club presently includes approximately 5,000 members living in 40 countries around the globe.

Sartoria italiana. Uno sguardo nel mondo dei grandi sarti italiani.

 

Sartoria italiana. Uno sguardo nel mondo dei grandi sarti italiani. Ediz. illustrata Copertina rigida – Illustrato, 14 giugno 2018

di Yoshimi Hasegawa (Autore), Luke Carby (Fotografo), Maria Valeria Caredda (Traduttore), Flora Bonetti (Traduttore)

Italian haute couture and its major protagonists. Haute couture is a tradition of excellence in our country. The clothes, especially those of men's tailoring, are in fact real works of art, which hide the secrets and history of the city in which they are produced and are the result of a long sartorial tradition made of elegance and taste, where even the smallest detail is executed with the utmost care and attention. In fact, tailor-made clothes and shoes involve the meticulous execution of measurements on the customer and the transformation of those measurements into a perfect garment, thanks to the skilful craftsmanship of the tailors and the refinement of the fabrics. A long and masterful work for a unique style that is recognizable at first glance. Introduced by the chapter dedicated to Vitale Barberis Canonico (the famous Made in Italy company that has been producing fabrics since 1663) and divided into four sections (northern Italy, central Italy, southern Italy Naples and southern Italy Bari and Palermo), the book presents 27 historic tailors in Italy and their major protagonists (from Donnadio to Musella Dembech,  from Liverano&Liverano to Rubinacci and Attolini, from A. Caraceni to Ciardi and Pirozzi) in a complete guide through Italy, from north to south, to discover haute couture and tailors who have shaped the Italian style known all over the world.

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REMEMBERING 10 Years Ago: Ralph Lauren launch party for Rowing Blazers

IMAGES BY http://www.preposity.com/2014/06/rowing-blazers-book-launch-at-ralph-lauren/

Rowing Blazer Clubhouse 8 Rivington Street New York, NY

 

https://rowingblazers.com/pages/about-us

 

Rowing Blazers is a brand and design studio created by archaeologist, author, and U.S. national rowing team alum Jack Carlson. Based in New York, the brand is known for its colorful, slightly subversive take on the classics, as well as its cult following and limited-edition collaborations.

 

Combining elements from the worlds of tailoring, sportswear, and streetwear, Rowing Blazers combines a reverence for quality and tradition with an irreverence for the rules.

 

Rowing Blazers began as a tailoring house dedicated to crafting club blazers (the world’s first sporting uniforms). Today the brand continues this tradition, making blazers for many of the world’s most storied rowing clubs. But the brand also draws inspiration from the world of sport more broadly, as well as from literature, pop culture, and the American “preppy” canon.

 

Beyond tailoring, Rowing Blazers is also known for its rugby and polo shirts, outerwear, knits, leisurewear, accessories, and fast-selling collaborations with the likes of Gucci, Seiko, Barbour, Umbro, FILA, Sperry, Noah, Tudor, J. Press, Lands’ End, Zodiac, Eric Emanuel, Tracksmith, ’47, J. Crew, Beams Plus, and the NBA.

 

Rowing Blazers has developed a cult following that includes Oscar winners and royalty, Apollo astronauts and Olympic gold medalists, Wimbledon and NBA champions, and other luminaries in art, sport, academia, film, music, and exploration.

 

Rowing Blazers works with some of the best fabric mills, artisans, and workshops in the world to create pieces that will last.

 

Community has always been at the center of the Rowing Blazers brand, and we are proud to partner regularly with a wide range of philanthropic organizations. These have included Row New York, Play Rugby USA, Social Change Fund United, Save the Children, the NAACP, Stop AAPI Hate, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Bee Conservancy, and more.

 

We are a small, young, New York-based brand, as well as a diverse, global community. We invite you to discover our world, and to join us.

Rowing Blazer Clubhouse

8 Rivington Street

New York, NY

Interview with Jack Carlson of Rowing Blazers

 

September 19, 2014 by Ville Raivio

https://www.keikari.com/english/interview-with-jack-carlson-of-rowing-blazers/

 

VR: Your age and occupation?

JC: I’m 27 years old. I’m an author, an archaeologist, and a member of the US national rowing team.

 

VR: Your educational background?

JC: I’m a doctoral student in archaeology currently; I did my undergraduate degree at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown in Washington, DC.

 

VR: Have you any children or spouse (and how do they relate to your style enthusiasm)?

JC: Neither at the moment. But my girlfriend Victoria has her own collection of rowing blazers (and her own equestrian flair when it comes to style).

 

VR: How have you gathered your knowledge of this area — from books, in-house training, workshops or somewhere else?

JC: I first became interested in clothing when I picked up Alan Flusser’s book in high school. In researching for Rowing Blazers specifically, the project has involved a lot of traditional library-based research, mostly in Oxford and Cambridge. It’s also involved many on-site interviews to find out about the more obscure traditions and anecdotes and individual rowing clubs.

 

VR: How would you describe your own dress? Have you any particular style or cut philosophy?

JC: A mix of classic American and British style.

VR: Which tailors or RTW makers do you favour today?

 

JC: The Andover Shop (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thom Sweeney (London); Walter’s (Oxford, England); Ralph Lauren (New York).

 

VR: Please describe how you came up with the idea for Rowing Blazers, and what goals did you set for yourself in the beginning.

JC: I first raced at the Henley Royal Regatta in 2004, and I was captivated by all of the brightly colored blazers and accoutrements. I talked to some of the British and Dutch rowers about the stories behind their blazers, and I thought, “Someone should write a book about this.” Eight years later, I was living in Oxford, the birthplace of the boating jacket, and I realized I was ideally situated to be that someone. I set out to create a book that is beautiful, well-researched, entertaining (for rowers and non-rowers alike) and expansive (though not exhaustive) in its scope. The stories are as important as the images, and in many cases the stories are as colorful as the blazers themselves.

 

VR: How has the project been received so far?

JC: It’s been overwhelming. I’m thrilled that so many people outside the rowing community are discovering the book and enjoying it so much.

 

VR: What was your criteria for the content of the book?

 

JC: I wanted the book to be highly authentic: none of the “models” in Rowing Blazers are models; they are all rowers who have earned their blazers, and they are all photographed entirely in their own clothes. I didn’t want to try to include every rowing club in the world, but I wanted to hit the high points and to cover clubs not only in the U.S. and U.K., but also in the Netherlands, Norway, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Australia, Ireland and South Africa. I wanted to cover blazers that were visually cool, and that had great stories behind them.

VR: Finally, what makes a great rowing blazer?

JC: The greatest rowing blazers in the book are the ones that are highly distinctive — after all, the rowing blazer’s original purpose was to help distant spectators tell which crew was which during races. From a tailoring perspective, the most traditional jackets are made from heavy flannel (though paradoxically they are usually worn during hot summer regattas nowadays); they are three-button jackets with fabric or metal buttons; no back vent; and a soft shoulder.

 

Photos: Jack Carlson

 

http://www.rowingblazers.com