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Rooster ‘Gothic Blackletter' Black Cotton Tie EUC VTG Trad Ivy Prep 1960s Hess’s

$ 21.11

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Style: Neck Tie
  • Modified Item: No
  • Material: 100% Cotton
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Brand: Rooster
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Look: Ivy League
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • MPN: Does Not Apply
  • Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Occasion: Summer/Beach
  • Decade: 1960s

    Description

    Length: 52.25”
    Width: 1.75”
    A square-end Rooster tie decorated with an excerpt from a religious text in gothic blackletter, c.1960s. The attached newspaper ad showing this exact print is from 1965. 100% cotton, made in the USA by Rooster using hand-printed cloth from Sun Fabrics. Excellent vintage condition.
    Hess Brothers was a department store founded in Allentown, PA in 1897 by Charles and Max Hess; by the 1980s it had grown into a regional chain consisting of nearly 80 stores. By the 1990s the business was gone, its stores either closed or sold off to conglomerates.