Suited For City Squiring

September, 1969

For this fall, two leading men's-clothing designers, Bill Blass and Ralph Lauren, have leaped fashionably forward by way of the past—and resurrected the landed-gentry look in suits; tweedy, well-tailored styles that are eminently more at home in an urban high-rise than they ever were at the country estate. The gentlemen of leisure seen above sporting squire attire pause at midday to discuss grape expectations with their dates. Rugged chap at left has donned a two-button herringbone Shetland wool...