1920s suits

[Eddie Derbyshire]

They sound like good finds! Yes I can imagine caps were less precious than the more expensive felt hats. One for best and your old one for wearing for work (probably down the pit around here, so they wouldn't be worth saving!). Or alternatively you would JUST wear your cap for work, and have a felt hat for best.

 

[esteban68]

I tend to see cheesecutter caps a plenty sold as vi tags they are not proper flat caps though they were around around as far back as the fifties, Terry Thomas wears a good examples in one of the St Trinians films along with sports jacket and cravat IIRC!
I have a reproduced vintage German cap pattern and a few suitable old tweed coats etc I just need a decent seamstress!

 

[dh66]

........I just need a decent seamstress!

Brother, don't we all!

 

[Dostioffsky]

What an impeccable dresser mr. DW Griffith seems to have been!

 

[herringbonekid]

that is some serious fleck in 2 and 3 !

 

[Patrick Hall]

And some persistent collar gappage. Reassuring to know men-in-jackets have been fighting the same fit demons for decades.

 

[Eddie Derbyshire]

Not a fan of Griffiths personally (for the obvious reasons) but he did have great personal style. Nice shots Dostioffsky. I also enjoy that type of stuff from early Hollywood(land) so keep them coming!

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[Dostioffsky]

Not a fan of Griffiths personally (for the obvious reasons) but he did have great personal style. Nice shots Dostioffsky. I also enjoy that type of stuff from early Hollywood(land) so keep them coming!

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Oh, I don't really know a thing about him. The clothes just caught my eye. I do agree about pictures of filmmaking/hollywood!

 

[Eddie Derbyshire]

He made 'Birth of a Nation', which, although heralded as one of the best pieces of early cinema ever, is also infamously one of the worst examples of racist propaganda. Includes men in blackface and the Ku Klux Klan as knights in shining armour, to point to milder examples. Don't want to stray into politics here, and also understanding that racism among white people was viewed very very differently back then (in an era still stinging from the blows of the Civil War), it's just that his work stands as one of the viler examples of racist popular culture from that time.
The thing is you can't look back at that time without taking into account this film and Griffith's impact on cinema.

Back to clothes though, I think the clothes of the great Rudolph Valentino and Harold Lloyd (despite him being a comic character) really epitomize that early-Hollywood look. Everything narrow and detailed, 'Brilliantined' to the gills!

 

[herringbonekid]

... I think the clothes of the great Rudolph Valentino and Harold Lloyd (despite him being a comic character) really epitomize that early-Hollywood look. Everything narrow and detailed, 'Brilliantined' to the gills!

as you probably know Eddie, it was Harold Lloyd's early 20s films that got me started on the 20s a few years ago.
if only i could go back in time and raid the wardrobe of a film like 'Girl Shy':

 

[Dostioffsky]

He made 'Birth of a Nation', which, although heralded as one of the best pieces of early cinema ever, is also infamously one of the worst examples of racist propaganda. Includes men in blackface and the Ku Klux Klan as knights in shining armour, to point to milder examples. Don't want to stray into politics here, and also understanding that racism among white people was viewed very very differently back then (in an era still stinging from the blows of the Civil War), it's just that his work stands as one of the viler examples of racist popular culture from that time.
The thing is you can't look back at that time without taking into account this film and Griffith's impact on cinema.

Back to clothes though, I think the clothes of the great Rudolph Valentino and Harold Lloyd (despite him being a comic character) really epitomize that early-Hollywood look. Everything narrow and detailed, 'Brilliantined' to the gills!

Yes, I just read a little on him. Seems his aesthetics are more worthy of remembrance than his ethics!

Yes, Rudolph Valentino and especially Harold Lloyd's clothes are fantastic I think. I think in the case of Harold Lloyd is wasn't even so much of a (comedic) costume (he did try that before as the Lonesome Luke character) but just a 'hip and fashionable' - or 'snappy' as they might have said then - outfit. Buster Keaton in films where he wears 'normal' clothes, has some great looks too - and just as narrow:

 

[Dostioffsky]

And just some more Harold Lloyd pictures - that I believe haven't been posted in this thread yet

(those shirt cuffs are so strange on the above pictures, super narrow sleeves too!)

 

[Eddie Derbyshire]

Great pictures gents! D'you know, I think specs suited Lloyd more than not! I'm on the hunt for a pair just like his (I have to wear specs all the time now really) but I've really struggled

Even where he's a little disheveled, it is still and endearing look!

 

[Giben]

Not a suit per se but I stumbled upon this while searching through CIA conspiracy blog (dont ask)

 

[herringbonekid]

early 20s Brits:

 

[Dostioffsky]

Some fellows from Etsy

 

[herringbonekid]

i've been combing ebay uk recently for photos of men in early 20s British suits, and think i may have found a British narrow-wrap DB (a Brit version of the 1918-23 U.S. type we've seen much evidence of in this thread).

if this is British (and i can't prove it although, the postcard back looks like other British postcards) then this is the first British example of this style i've found:

 

[Two Types]

Well spotted!

 

[Eddie Derbyshire]

i've been combing ebay uk recently for photos of men in early 20s British suits, and think i may have found a British narrow-wrap DB (a Brit version of the 1918-23 U.S. type we've seen much evidence of in this thread).

if this is British (and i can't prove it although, the postcard back looks like other British postcards) then this is the first British example of this style i've found:

There's an example of that style in that 'Vintage Menswear' postcard book. A fellow wearing a blazer in just that style. I don't have the book to hand, so sorry for only the description. Have you replicated the look yourself HBK?

 

[Eddie Derbyshire]

Those caps are brilliant. Hell so are the suits. And the boots. And the ties. So all of it basically Although that scenic backdrop is pretty rubbish