1930's French 3 piece brown pinstripe High Stance 3 piece SB peak lapel suit

[GoldenEraFan]

The 3rd piece isn't a vest but instead a double breasted waistcoat! A dream suit for me, but beyond my budget and not my size!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FRENCH-1930...pt=Vintage_Men_s_Clothing&hash=item485eceba2b

 

[Nick D]

The 3rd piece isn't a vest but instead a double breasted waistcoat!

It is a vest, just double breasted. Very nice, I'd love to have this suit. Too big for me, though.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Is there actually a difference between a waistcoat and a vest, other than English versus American semantics?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

no

 

[cpdv]

When I sold suits... if you could call the garbage from jos a bank suits I loved to call them waistcoats and confuse the customers who would often say "those are back in style?"

 

[PADDY]

Nice suit. Wish my waist was smaller.

 

[Nobert]

Nice suit. Wish my waist was smaller.

Wish my wallet was bigger.

 

[Guttersnipe]

no

Then I'll add that to my list British affectations by yanks that get my goat . . . (1) saying "whilst," (2) using single rather than double quotation marks, and (3) saying "waistcoat" rather than "vest"

 

[Patrick Hall]

Is it me, or did the starting bid just go up $100.00? The measurements are interesting also - How many people boast a 30 inch waist and a 42 inch chest? Mis-measured perhaps?

 

[Nick D]

A man with a trim waist and well-muscled upper torso, or perhaps a fair bit of ease in the underarms or drape in the shoulders. Or poor measurements. The joy of buying online.

 

[The Rag And Bone Man]

Is it me, or did the starting bid just go up $100.00? The measurements are interesting also - How many people boast a 30 inch waist and a 42 inch chest? Mis-measured perhaps?

Yes, not a wise thing to do just put it up by $100 dollars I noticed that, then removed it from my watch list.

Sellers that do that, don't get my vote of confidence.

 

[Two Types]

Is it me, or did the starting bid just go up $100.00? The measurements are interesting also - How many people boast a 30 inch waist and a 42 inch chest? Mis-measured perhaps?

The trousers would appear to have been taken in on the waist - that's not where I would expect the fly buttons to be.

The centre seam looks to me as if it has been taken in:

 

[Dinerman]

That seller does that kind of thing with his prices.

 

[Nick D]

The trousers would appear to have been taken in on the waist - that's not where I would expect the fly buttons to be.

The centre seam looks to me as if it has been taken in:

I didn't see those photos (my internet connection is iffy at the moment). The fly buttons have been moved, you can see the original placement for the lower two visible, and the darts are way too close to the back seam.

 

[Patrick Hall]

The trousers would appear to have been taken in on the waist -

Perhaps that also explains the lack of buttons for braces?

 

[Guttersnipe]

That seller does that kind of thing with his prices.

They also breakup suits into separate auctions for the trousers and jacket, or at least they used to ....

 

[Baron Kurtz]

The price change doesn't bother me much. That's how much he/she wants now, that's fair enough.

The chest is more like a 40. The trousers have been taken in, so probably an 8 inch drop or so originally. Not unheard of in that era, esp if one was poor or had done military service.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I will say that there most certainly is a difference between "waistcoat" and "vest" in the UK. A vest is what you would call an A-shirt. A sleeveless sweater we would call a tank top, though I have heard it called a vest by some European or other (A johnny foreigner; as a good Britisher I didn't note the part of foreign land from which he hailed).

Most people here use "whilst" wrong as well. It's a global phenomenon of poor education, I'm afraid, and not restricted to the colonies.

Single rather than double quotation marks. I don't get what you mean. Both have their uses. And yes, people quite often get that wrong, too.

Then I'll add that to my list British affectations by yanks that get my goat . . . (1) saying "whilst," (2) using single rather than double quotation marks, and (3) saying "waistcoat" rather than "vest"

 

[Tomasso]

Ithe colonies..

Finding it hard to let go, are you?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

We all know that someday you boys will come back, tail between your legs, BEGGING, pleading with us to admit you to the Commonwealth of Nations. The current dominance of the United Kingdom as not only an economic, but also policy, powerhouse renders this conclusion inevitable. Not one but TWO Houses of Parliament packed to the gunwales with such intellectual giants as the current crop mean that Britain's dominance on the world stage is ensured for the remainder of the time remaining to humanity on this planet.