The J. Press spring-summer 2025 collection stands as a reaffirmation of American prep’s original formula—one built not on nostalgia, but on continuity. What emerges across the lineup of madras sport coats, cricket sweaters, and poplin trousers is less a throwback than a seasonal adjustment of the uniform.
From the club collar shirt pinned beneath a navy blazer to the unapologetic embrace of seersucker and plaids, J. Press plays its own long game, rooted in Ivy League DNA and New Haven brickwork.
Madras makes a strong showing, woven into jackets and shirting alike, evoking summers past without slipping into costume. A pair of crimson tartan trousers under a navy hopsack blazer reads more 1966 Princeton reunion than Brooks Brothers cosplay—especially when tempered by a striped butcher shirt and a burgundy repp tie.
Even the overshirts, cut in a hardy English cotton, play a utility role while nodding to the chore coat’s migration from factory floor to off-campus wardrobe. Loafers and mocs—mostly cordovan—ground the looks in old-world permanence.
But tradition doesn’t preclude levity. J. Press finds rhythm in contrasts: a natural cotton sweater with a sleeve stripe calls back to athletic kits of the ’50s, while a pastel plaid shirt tucked into raw denim suggests an off-duty Yale Glee Club tenor.
The fit is trim but not tight, a studied rejection of the hyper-styled. This is a collection for men who still press their shirts, still monogram their cuffs, and still believe that a tie bar belongs slightly above the sternum.
J. Press Spring/Summer 2025 Collection
