Burton dinner jacket and pants
Vladimir, is the outfit still available for purchase? And is there enough material to let out the coat by an inch, maybe two? My email address is:
bradbunnin@comcast.net
Many thanks,
Brad
Vanity Fair 1922
My source was an on-line copy of the magazine, not the book. Granted, it's just one source—and it seems abundantly clear that various sources have historically taken a variety of positions on proper attire. My point simply was that a source to which people who wore formal dress...
White tie and cane
Vanity Fair reporting on the London scene in 1922: the crooked malacca cane appears both in daytime use and with white tie and tails. Fashions change, of course; but I'd say Vanity Fair is authoritative for its era.
This picture gives new meaning (sadly, one altogether too common these days) to the concept of "semi-formal": Wear whatever you like, because it really doesn't matter.
Shirt front
Even in the fifties (when I attended my senior prom in a dinner jacket), fly front dress shirts weren't worn. Nor would you want a heavily starched shirt, suitable for earlier eras. A pleated front, studded, turn-down collared shirt, with cummerbund, would be appropriate with a...
The BlackTie Guide has at least one photo of a black dinner jacket with a notch lapel, in the Vintage section. As I recall, the jacket dates from the teens. And I've seen several other pre-WWII images of similar dinner jackets. They're not common, but they existed and they were worn. So it's...
Black and White
I have seen a picture, in an Esquire magazine from the mid-thirties, of the black tuxedo jacket/white trousers combination. It's clearly intended for summer wear, and it has a certain charm. And utility.
An odd formal shirt
I acquired a Manhattan shirt, most likely from the 1930s, and it's a bit different from many. It's a tone-on-tone, foldover collar, French-cuffed, four-pleat shirt, with a proper trouser button tab. The oddity: it's off-white. There's no indication that the color is the...
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