1920s suits

[herringbonekid]

If Im not wrong those are high Brace trousers.

not wrong:

 

[DamianM]

I have these images in my archive.

He has plenty more But hardly lists anything.

 

[herringbonekid]

Ivor Novello.

 

[Mr. Purple]

Delicious!

 

[Two Types]

I know i should be commenting on the suit fabric, but I love that tie. Dark spots on a light background - splendid.

 

[herringbonekid]

more Ivor Novello, from 'Downhill' 1927:

 

[Two Types]

Here's a selection of men's suits from the Spring/Summer 1926 Eaton's Catalogue (Eaton's was a Canadian mail order company):

These include a suit in a fancy fabric known as a 'Radio Weave' and examples of patch pocket jackets with a belt back:

They are still offering the 'novelty suits' with unusual button arrangements:

Another 'radio weave' suit:

These suits "are not suitable for a man of mature age":

 

[Two Types]

more from 1926:

The waistcoat has three pockets rather than four or two:

 

[HadleyH]

1923: Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Christy Walsh.....

Babe wearing a 1960s slim tie????? :eeek:

 

[HadleyH]

1924: George Sisler, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb

 

[Orgetorix]

Interesting how both Sisler and Cobb's jackets have dual breast pockets. And Walsh in a DB with notch lapel, proving they weren't invented in the '80s.

 

[volvomeister13]

I know this is a very amateur questions, but when did front darts first start appearing on suit jackets? Did most 1920s suits have them?

 

[herringbonekid]

I know this is a very amateur questions, but when did front darts first start appearing on suit jackets? Did most 1920s suits have them?

this is basically the transitional period between the Victorian 'sack' jacket and the more suppressed-waist 1920s jacket.
by the late teens most of the 'fashion forward' companies would have been going for the trimmer waist with front darts, but there still would have been plenty of 'conservative' suit jackets available during the first half of the 20s which still resembled the un-front-darted sack style. the change didn't happen overnight, but roughly mid to late teens, with some spill into the 20s.

 

[Two Types]

Here's my great uncle Jack in the 1920s:

(everyone called him Jack, at his funeral they discovered his real name was Frosswar!!)

 

[herringbonekid]

ah, good old Frossie ! sporting that early-mid 20s cutaway we've seen before. similar anyway, but not as extreme as this one:

 

[Two Types]

Uncle jack's trousers really are very short.

I must try to find some more photos of him from that period.

 

[Barmey]

Some interesting jackets here. Not sure of the exact date but the caption says 1920s cyclists photographed around Barming Heath, Maidstone, Kent, England

 

[Two Types]

I like the roadsign in the first picture: turn right for Chilham, turn left for 'Kent Mental Hospital'.

 

[herringbonekid]

centre partings are GO.

1920, Yale.

 

[herringbonekid]

Jack Trevor, 1928-9: