Under Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, looks every inch the statesman in September 1945 while wearing a grey glen plaid suit with an old school button down collar oxford and a great bandana-esque silk tie. Worsted glen plaid is a very versatile fabric for woolen suiting as the fall season moves into cooler mornings and shorter days.
Shown here, leaving the White House in 1950, with Ambassador Philip Jessup and Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Acheson again exudes quiet calm in grey glen plaid.
I have long been fond of glen plaid in medium grey - it is a pattern that is both formal and relaxed at the same time. Fortunately, however, this type of suit is not something confined solely to the past century. It is still available today at J. Press made with fabric from the Lanificio Comero mills in Biella, Italy.
That J. Press still offers this sort of suit in a medium grey glen plaid with a blue windowpane, is extremely commendable. As the days begin to get a bit cooler, such a suit is the perfect foreign policy to adopt as one goes about the business of one's own matters of state.
Images: Google LIFE Archive; Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation. (Norton, 1969) ; J. Press.
