Around his tiny shop in various stages of completion hang hunting jackets in corduroy and moleskin, a tweedsportcoat or two, and at least one sleek pair of knickerbockers with deer-bone cuff buttons.
In "Ivy Style: Radical Conformists, " out last month from Yale University Press, fashion scholar Patricia Mears traces the history of the modern sportcoat to the interwar years, when Princetonians liberated tweed jackets from their matching bottoms.