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    30s-50s British Suit Trouser photo resource

    The trousers illustrated by Sir RBH were certainly not mess waiter's trousers. the label suggests that the user was a "motor driver" from"Smithfield station". Probably a fire man.
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    30s-50s British Suit Trouser photo resource

    Compton Sons and Webb are/were uniform suppliers in the UK of some note even if their quality was far from wonderful at times.
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    • Post #150
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    examples of black suits in the golden age

    This does help to lay the silly notion that some subscribe to that black suits are somehow wrong and should never be worn by ordinary people going about their ordinary lives!
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    Show us your suits

    Can you not present this with some punctuation - IE paragraphs - it is unreadable.
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    What Shoes with a DB Yachting Blazer and White Trousers?

    Do you actually own a yacht?
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    Jacket too small?

    it still looks hideously short at the front - is there some discrepancy front to rear?
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    Am I wearing a Nazi suit?

    I doubt it has the implied overtones you suggest. However can you post some more pictures of its features - or at least describe them. For example inside the jacket - what pockets (and style) does it have, full lining I assume. Rear - vented? Trousers again pockets front/side rear...
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    Team USA's Olympic Parade Suit

    In the humidity of Beijing hats and ties were simply a stupid idea especially given the amount of standing around for the athletes. the UK contingent looked smart, modern without being extreme and above all practical.
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    • Post #36
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    Team USA's Olympic Parade Suit

    Nothing kind. Pretty cheap stuff justified because PRL was 'donating' some huge sponsorship fee. Like all these things burn them as quickly as possible after. Like so many things the USA knows how to do it badly.
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    Welcome to suits

    Matt As it has been revived, what is the definition of a "Valentino Pocket" please?
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    Jacket Pockets Sewn Shut?

    Just cut the baste threads. It is a so called security measure.
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    Is there such a thing as a left-handed suit?

    This is the inside pocket though - were US suits cut with only one in-breast pocket on the left normally?
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    Is there such a thing as a left-handed suit?

    Surely the inside pocket is always be on the right hand side if there was only one?
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    Getting a tailor-made suit, part 2

    Oscar - profile, side view. D
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    Getting a tailor-made suit, part 2

    Oscar looking good. When you have chance to put up some more pictures I'll gather my thoughts for what they are worth: Can you do the rear view of each without the coat, a profile with and without coat and the inside of each coat please. This is fantastic project so well...
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    Getting a tailor-made suit, part 2

    It depends where your trousers came from. American ones tended to have two but UK very frequently did not much of the time. After the war some had one but a gentlemen having them made would have none - still the case for some today. In the photgraphs the grey suit did not appear to have them...
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    • Post #25
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    Matt Deckard Apparel

    Can we have pictures of the inside of the jackets as well as the front of the trousers please?
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    • Post #23
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    Getting a tailor-made suit, part 2

    Hi Oscar Both suits are coming togther well. You seem to have a reasonable rise in the troursers - do you intend to wear them with braces (suspenders)? You could certainly have had them slightly higher or had a fishtail back but they will still look good. I think your judgement is...
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    • Post #19
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    Getting a tailor-made suit, part 2

    Pity she did not get pictures without the jacket from front and rear - the fit of the trousers is so often neglected. I think you are right about the sleeve length so stand firm. Your view on the arm holes was also correct. Maybe you parents will simply pay the bill....
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    • Post #10
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    Show us your suits

    Apart from the very small photographs which do very little to help your posts - this looks quite new - certainly thirty years north of your aspiration for it Sorry.
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