Latin Jersey Blazer

Notes

Navy knit cotton jersey blazer with "swelled seam" topstitch and embroidered Latin motto "FORSAN ET HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE IUVABIT." Handmade in New York. 100% American year-round heavyweight cotton jersey. 3-roll-2 silhouette. Three patch pockets.

Details

Handmade cloisonné buttonhole badge included. Hidden rib cuff. Rib underarm gusset. “Henry” label under collar. Rowing Blazers house brass button. Unlined back. Self-lined fronts. Ventless.

Size & Fit

This jacket has a modern cut.
36 runs short; 38-40 run regular. 42-46 available regular or long.

Provenance

Our FW19 collection is inspired by the desire to cling to youth and the inevitability of "growing up," whatever that means: early adulthood’s mix of melancholy and excitement in all its nostalgic forms - Yuppie culture, identity crises, and a longing to go “back to school.” Films like St. Elmo's Fire - which takes place at RB founder Jack Carlson's alma mater, Georgetown - and series like Friends (shout out to "The One With All The Rugby") capture this spirit, as well as the zeitgeist of a seemingly simpler time, when the stakes were low and the world was young.

The collection - drawing on these '80s and '90s cultural moments in both attitude and style - is not just post-Ivy in the sense that it reflects a post-collegiate or post-graduation ethos, however. Post Ivy is also a play on Take Ivy - the (contrived, idealized) Japanese anthropological study of American campus culture in the late ‘50s that many since then have taken as a style bible. But in 2019, we believe that classic American collegiate style transcends narrow, and in any case artificial, categorizations like "Ivy style," and beyond the baggage that comes with these constructs and labels. Collegiate, by definition, is the intersection of traditional and youthful - and youth culture - a youthful sense of irony and irreverence - is as important an inspiration to this collection as the staged photos in books like Take Ivy.