30's hat style

[Marc Chevalier]

Thanks for the link! Great illustrations.

I like the London Lounge at times, but often find myself annoyed by its members' obssessiveness. After reading a long and apparently serious discussion on where to place a boutonniere thread (two centimeters down? three?), I was ready to throw my laptop across the room and become a Buddhist.

Get a life, LL folks .. and that goes for the "Ask Andy" crowd too.

 

[photobyalan]

I don't know about the hat, other than it looks like the offspring of a Homburg that married a fedora. But that plaid suit in the first drawing! Yikes!

 

[jamespowers]

I don't know about the hat, other than it looks like the offspring of a Homburg that married a fedora. But that plaid suit in the first drawing! Yikes!

Even more laughable is the red socks with the white evening jacket ensemble. [huh]
Then the sap wonders if people really dressed that well back then. Duh! Yes.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Matt Deckard]

Thanks for the link! Great illustrations.

I like the London Lounge at times, but often find myself annoyed by its members' obssessiveness. After reading a long and apparently serious discussion on where to place a boutonniere thread (two centimeters down? three?), I was ready to throw my laptop across the room and become a Buddhist.

Get a life, LL folks .. and that goes for the "Ask Andy" crowd too.

Three!

 

[jamespowers]

Three!

No! Two! :cheers1:

 

[vespasian]

I quite like the London Lounge. It becomes a bit obsessed though. Red hose with a white jacket. Whoa thats like, like wearing a fedora in the 21st century?
Sure people dressed like that then, just as they wore hats then. Hmmmm.

 

[jamespowers]

Red hose with a white jacket. Whoa thats like, like wearing a fedora in the 21st century?

Much worse.

Regards to all,

J

 

[geo]

So, going back to the hat, anyone knows anything about that model? It's not an isolated occurence, but from the illustrations it seems to have been popular back then. See also "Dressing the Man", there is a hat like this shown in an illustration in the ties chapter. The illustration shows a polka dot tie with a navy pinstripe suit. The hat is brown.

 

[Victor]

How did you get a drawing of my Grandpa Joe? He is teh guy on the left in the top picture. Looks exactly like him!

 

[Matt Deckard]

Looks like a short crowned bound edge fedora with the brim up

 

[Victor]

I was referring to my grandfather, not the hat

 

[BellyTank]

It's a Homburg with a doffing pinch...

I like the LL- they're talking about specific topics in a specific forum.
What is 'obsessive' in a special interest forum..?

B
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[Marc Chevalier]

Obsessive is the exact placement of boutonniere loops.

 

[jamespowers]

Obsessive is the exact placement of boutonniere loops.

Two centimeters!

Regards to all,

J

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Perhaps a little gentle parody of the London Lounge would "help the medicine go down."

Imagine, if you will, that the following posts appear on the Fedora Lounge. (The point is, they never would.):




"NEED YOUR HELP!

Upon inspecting my most recent purchase -- a 1949 Adam fedora -- I was dismayed to find that the ribbing on the wind trolley button's grosgrain was about 1/68 cm less widely spaced than the ribbing on the hatband. I promptly went to my hatter (the one with an electron microscope) and we found that the grosgrain rib spacing was indeed inconsistently spaced: by 1/71 of a centimeter! Needless to say, I was horrified. Would anyone here know how to rectify this inexcusable irregularity? Thanks so much."


Re. NEED YOUR HELP!

Odd coincidence ... I too discovered this very outrage in my own Adam fedora. Unfortunately, my research at the Library of Congress has shown that the button fabric and hatband fabric were made in -- dare I say it? -- two different textile mills: one in Sheboygan and the other in Poughkeepsie. Tragically, both burned down in 1968. I am assembling capital to rebuild and reopen the Poughkeepsie mill, so that my wind trolley button may be re-covered with grosgrain whose ribbing is appropriately spaced. Nonetheless, there is a bit of a catch: the original machine operators have died. Any suggestions as to how they may be revived?


Re.Re. NEED YOUR HELP!

I have faced a similar quandary several times. Happily, I've found that injecting several hundred cc's of Czech absinthe and formaldehyde into a textile machine operator's corpse will do wonders. Do let us know how it turns out for you!"



And so on, and so on, and so on ...

 

[Matt Deckard]

Two centimeters!

Regards to all,

J

Three... two would make it droop!

 

[Art Fawcett]

LOL....hilarious Mark!!!!

Geo, I also collect Esquires and have used them for years as research. The one thing you need to remember is that these are illistrations, not photos. Every artist takes some license. These were meant to illistrate how to put outfits together and proper etiquette, not necessarily to try to copy exactly.
That being said, you are right, there were attempts at this style and I'm sure people wore them, but apparently not many as there very few left. The more popular the style, the more that exist today. Virtually EVERY style (last 100 yrs anyway) has been made in past times. There really isn't anything truly new in the hat trade so it wouldn't surprise me if you found more of this genre.

 

[jamespowers]

Three... two would make it droop!

That's what they all say.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Mr. Rover]

Haha- thoroughly amusing, Marc. I'm laughing out loud, but the diplomat within me says "Play nicely, children". Don't need to muddy the water between the two lounges, eh?
I will admit that some of the topics of discussion are a bit neurotic, but I do think that the Cloth Club is a good idea. Trying to revive good material and appreciating good craftsmanship is in line with what we value here, too.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I hear you, Ghos7a55assin. Giving credit where it's due, the London Lounge is a wonderful fount of information. Those chaps really know their stuff! And while I wouldn't want to be as clothes-conscious as some of them are, I do love to learn from them.