Color photos Suits 1938 to 1946

[Marc Chevalier]

Charles Cushman took these during his travels around the U.S.A. between 1938 and 1946.
Suits of all kinds. Each link has a photo.


http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02647.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02301.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P03438

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P02686

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P02303

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P02300

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P02306

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P01546.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P01688.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02521.jpg


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[Marc Chevalier]

See first post.

 

[jake_fink]

Is that Joe E Brown in pic #2 or a lookalike?

Great pics btw. I snuck into the powder room to have shifty at the Cushman photos of swimsuits and playsuits. Where are these pictures coming from?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Hey, you weren't supposed to sneak in there! I asked my wife to post those photos, since I (a m-a-n ) wasn't allowed to go there.

And yes, that fella is Joe E. Brown, visiting a traveling circus in 1946.


I dug all these photos out of a great link posted by CharlieH. Here it is: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp


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[jake_fink]

Very cool and very interesting stuff. Thanks.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

I like the one of the "Bum." He's better dressed that 90% of guys nowadays.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I wonder what that Battery bum would say if we went back in time and offered him, let's say, $50 for his belted back coat? and $25 for his newsboy?

Note, gents, how short they wear their ties! Particularly the guy at the grand ca?±on.

Very nice photos indeed. IU certainly has an interesting history documentation project going on ...

bk

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Wow! I can never get enough of this stuff.

It is one thing to see an old film and another to see how normal people lived, what their environments looked like, and how they dressed.

It's absolutely amazing to see this and imagine the stories that go along with the images.

 

[jake_fink]

Oh never mind... Pic problems.

 

[Martina]

1938-1946 suits

It seems like everytime I start to look up some specific information about vintage clothing I get side-tracked, sometimes for hours, while enjoying someone else's old family photos.

I especially loved the photo of the two men in blue suits, with a partial third man on the right. Just look at the soles of the shoes on the man with the crossed legs! A stark difference to today's population where anything that starts to show wear is tossed aside, although my guess is that he was wearing those worn shoes out of necessity; those look like some thick woolen socks he has on also.

Thanks Marc for posting these great pictures!
Martina