When David Glassman blogged yesterday about the clothes he and Buddy were wearing in their class picture it got me thinking. We have not up until this time discussed the sartorial splendor that was the wardrobe of Harold Newell.
If I may, let me take a moment to describe the "Buddy Newell Summer Collection".
Buddy always had, like many of us, his own sense of style. Let us say he was his own tailor.
Case in point: we would every summer be highly amused upon the initial viewing of his closet in Fire Island or the Hamptons. The garments never changed. Standard uniform.
First you would notice the unbelievably small white, baby tank tops. They would probably have had trouble fitting the young Marc Wilk in the Na-Sho-Pa photo below yet Buddy would lube up his body like he was swimming the English Channel and squeeze right in. Then it was time to augment the look. You see Buddy shunned the traditional sport jacket favored by the normal young male. Instead Buddy chose to go with a garment he altered himself to his specs. The "Cut Off Denim Button Up". I kid you not, if you looked in his closet he had about 12 of these distinguished only by the shade of denim and the level of fray at the cut off portion of the sleeve.
For the lower half of his body he would adorn some sort of pant or short that would allow for extra expansion in case of high levels of caloric consumption.
The look was priceless. He considered himself bespoke. As did we.
(please note the lovely Ms. Shana in the photo above)
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