Answer: Why the hell not?
This old tie came from the same Bert Pulitzer tie collection as that Rembrandt Blue Boy tie that I showed off last year. These are some weird choices to use as big, oversized motifs to apply to some then fairly expensive club ties. -Clearly, old Bert was a gentleman and a scholar.
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I used to buy my Pulitzer ties at Lord & Taylor, back when when Lord & Taylor had "The Man's Shop" and "The Alumni Shop" on the 10th Floor of their Fifth Avenue location. And Tom Risener - long deceased I am sure - would always hold one each of the new Haspel summer suits for me - in 38R. The times sure have changed. Lord & Taylor even closed my account a few years back for lack of use.
Great ties, Mr. Bean, wear them in good health.
Not sure it was a Pulitzer, but I used to have a tie with the motif of an individual putting back a bottle of something and of (apparently) the same individual vomiting into a trashcan. Man, I loved that tie.
Anon 3:29,
Ah, remember when department stores were department stores?
Anon 6:49,
It's those discreet little touches that really complete an ensemble, don't you think?
My grandfather worked for Lord & Taylor for over 43 years - from the moment he stepped foot in the US from Scotland until his death in 1974 - and he would often proudly state that "Lord & Taylor is a specialty store, and not a department store, as we peddle neither cookware nor electronics."
Anon 9:15,
I stand corrected. Thanks. Your grandfather shared a lot of wisdom hard earned in The Old Country with you, I'm sure. -What a treasure that is!
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