Chipp for J. Press

Made-in-USA D.B. Cooper Club Tie

$145
Quantity:
  • 100% Silk
  • 3 1/4" width
  • Made in USA

The Mystery of D.B. Cooper:

On November 24, 1971, a man using the fake name Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 traveling from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. After telling the crew he had a bomb, he demanded four parachutes and a $200,000 ransom (worth about $1.6 million today) once they landed.

In Seattle, Cooper released the passengers and ordered the plane refueled for a flight to Mexico City, planning a stop in Reno, Nevada. Shortly after takeoff, he opened the plane's tail door, lowered the stairs, and jumped into a dense forest in southwest Washington. Due to a journalist's mistake, he became widely known as D.B. Cooper, but his real identity and ultimate fate remain a mystery to this day.

We’re excited to carry this collection of ties from legendary Ivy outfitter, Chipp.  Founded in 1947 by J. Press veterans Sidney Winston and Lou Praeger, Chipp is credited with creating what Tom Wolfe dubbed “Go to Hell” Ivy style.  Today, Sidney's son, Paul, carries on the Chipp tradition through this legacy line of ties that features some of Chipp’s most famous (or, in some cases, infamous) motifs: cheeky, coded symbols sneakily set against sober, conservative –and wearable– backgrounds.  Go to Hell?  We prefer to think of it as “camouflaged subversion.”

 

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