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How would you earn a living?
Going back to the 30s would probably be good for me in some ways because my job had more of a future then than it does now. More competition then, but many more customers. Speaking of female construction workers...at the weekend I was in an ice-cream shop and over the road there was a crew who...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #218
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Identifyng a DB waistcoat
The buttonholes are clearly machine-made so I wouldn't be thinking too far back; like 30s or 40s. On European pieces of that vintage the buttonholes tend to be hand-sewn even on semi- machine-made pieces. Waistcoats of many designs have been made and re-made throughout the years. They...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #8
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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1920s suits
The only apples I buy have a single core and minimalistic design. One of them a day keeps the doctor away.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #1,155
- Forum: Suits
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Camel hair jacket & cowboy boots?
Looks like a belt borrowed at the last moment.;)- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #18
- Forum: Suits
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Camel hair jacket & cowboy boots?
Yuck. I saw this very thing last Friday. Bright blue converse shoes with a "suit". I was making idle conversation with the guy while waiting at a bar. He was sitting on a bar stool and kept pulling at the crotch of the trousers and said "my pants keep riding up". And it wasn't a surprise, they...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #12
- Forum: Suits
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Camel hair jacket & cowboy boots?
That's good to know. I'm always stuck for what coat to wear over my tracksuit.:D- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #9
- Forum: Suits
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The wonderful foods of the Golden Era
Reading Lizzie's first reply on page one of this thread I'm surprised how similar the food and diet is to what I ate, right on the other side of the Atlantic. Perhaps it is a standard working-class diet of that era. I lived on a farm, but we also bought some of our food and most people today...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #116
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Vintage Tailoring Thread
I can give you the entire drafts with instructions. Ask the tailor beforehand though, because it might be insulting to insist he (or she!) should work from a particular draft if he has his own system of working. I'll send the links to the drafts to you by PM.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #548
- Forum: Suits
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Wearing white tie to a black tie event?
I don't think it's that kind of party...but who knows from this distance?- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #13
- Forum: Suits
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1920s suits
Okay, I acknowledge the points of you two fellows above me. I have no real axe to grind with SJC - and I'm sure he couldn't give a hoot what some random twit on a forum (that's me) thinks about his enterprises. It's perhaps a knee-jerk reaction to the ever-encroaching 'lifestyle' marketing...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #1,153
- Forum: Suits
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The Vintage Tailoring Thread
Okay. Well there's a couple of routes you can go. I have a draft for pleated trousers from 1938. They are essentially 'cricket flannels', but the silhouette is authentic. Just making those with the usual tweaks ought to produce more-or-less what you probably want. They have a waistband (shaped...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #546
- Forum: Suits
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The Vintage Tailoring Thread
Yes. Which style in particular?- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #544
- Forum: Suits
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1920s suits
Isn't the joy that it isn't in one cohesive, easy package? That would be like a shopping mall or getting everything in your life from Amazon. That sort of thing causes people to narrow their view by not encountering things outside their tastes. It's weird. I'm also a long-time aficionado of the...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #1,150
- Forum: Suits
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1920s suits
I see. I like some of the things on offer there, but this from the 'about' page puts me off a bit: Really? A lifestyle? I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a maker and not a retail entrepreneur that I find the whole 'lifestyle' angle unappealing and false. Having a lifestyle is one thing...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #1,148
- Forum: Suits
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What are you snacking on?
If you carry on like this you'll need a new wardrobe.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #181
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Death of the belted back
I think it's fairly accurate to say that it wasn't worn by everyone anyway and that it was a style that began its decline in the '30s rather than the '40s. I'm sure there are plenty of ads and catalogues from the '40s offering them, but the widely worn styles of the '40s (especially in America)...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #12
- Forum: Suits
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Show Us Vintage GERMAN Suits
That's the very thing that would put me off. I like a bit of belly on the lapel, though you can't get much on high buttoning coats. So many years I was a three-button man, but now I just can't wear a three-button coat and to be honest they just don't suit me. Length and belly works much better...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #781
- Forum: Suits
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Feedback Requested
Even for a country wedding I'd still opt for a white or pale blue/white collar shirt, which would imo suit the tie better. The boots are marvellous. Who is that gaunt-looking fellow with the pipe and fez?- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #7
- Forum: Suits
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The Vintage Tailoring Thread
I'm assuming that it is not the 'plain top' cut, but one with an added waistband? Plain top trousers always have enough to create a new "fishtail" because they run right into the inlays. With an added waistband that was cut to size it's not so easy. However some of the 'letting out' can be...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #542
- Forum: Suits
