Banana Republic Catalog #31, Spring 1987: Rambles & Scrambles Around the English Lakes

This catalog was the first one I picked up when I started collecting Banana Republic items in 2011, and it’s the first one I scanned into the archive.

The cover is beautifully done, of course, and it’s perfectly suited to the subject of the Ziegler’s latest trip: Walking through the misty English countryside. The cover detail of the note from PZ to MZ, “I’m going my way, see you at the top.” tells the story nicely.

To me this seems very much like Mel’s catalog, it’s so focused on the writer and poet.  The journal sketches are very good, and I’ve been told that by this time staff artists were doing most of the sketches for the travel journal as Patricia Ziegler’s duties for the company were intruding on her time for that. I can’t say for sure, there are a few sketches that seem to be in her style, and some that are clearly not.