The Subdued Stripe
September, 1957
"Virtue may flourish in an old cravat," muttered Oliver Wendell Holmes – possibly an acceptable epigram to his hirsute contemporaries, whose beavers covered their own cravats and rendered newness or oldness largely academic. But for today's clean-shaven urbanites, virtue flourishes in the neckwear above, combining as it does the old and the new. These freshly-minted neckties are really old buddies done up with a clever twist: colorfully striped rep silk (English import) turned inside o...
