Elton John's Vintage B-Day

[Hemingway Jones]

Sounds like we need a thread on demob suits.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

it'll usually have a label with one of these on it:

However there are many suits which have the CC41 pacmen but are not demob suits. I've always found it hard to tell between the demob and other CC41 suits. As i recall you could have single breasted peak lapel, single breasted notch, DB 4x1 or DB 6x2. Each demobbed veteran was supplied with jacket, trousers, waistcoat, shirt, tie and shoes (or so my grandad told me).

check out this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/95/a5875095.shtml

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I used to find a fair number of demob suits in Santiago's used clothing stores. Before the Fedora Lounge was around, I had no idea what those "pacman" labels signified. Thanks to bulk rag merchants, vintage demob suits are still being exported to Third World countries.

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[Jovan]

Despite the sleeves, I think Daniel Craig looks great. What ever happened to James Bond wearing double breasteds? It worked for Roger Moore pretty well, and they'd be missing an opportunity since Brioni makes a good one.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I think that 'Bond-like' men of action are more associated with one-button single-breasted suits, which are less 'fussy' (with fewer buttons to fasten and unfasten) than their double-breasted cousins.

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[Jovan]

Didn't Bond always wear a two button in the novels?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Hey, aren't we talking about the movies?

You're probably right, but I doubt that Bond buttoned both buttons on such a suit.

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[Jovan]

If you button a DB 6x2 right, you leave the bottom undone anyways.

 

[Orgetorix]

My first DB suit (since I was a kid, anyway) is on its way to me. After hanging out here and seeing so many great vintage suits, the modern standard 2-piece, SB, notch-lapel suit seems so boring to me now. That's all that's in my wardrobe at the moment, but I'm working to correct that.

 

[Orgetorix]

If you button a DB 6x2 right, you leave the bottom undone anyways.

But there's that inside one that requires hand contortions to undo.

 

[Jovan]

Good choice. Single breasted peaked lapel suits are also pretty different and classic looking at the same time. I plan to get one someday.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

If you button a DB 6x2 right, you leave the bottom undone anyways.

True, but you do need to also button the DB jacket's inside button. Minimum number of buttons that must be fastened: two.

For a 'man of action,' two are too many.

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[Feraud]

Considering most of today's "bad guys" wear their pants around the butt, I think undoing 2-3 buttons is a snap.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

True men of action have velcro buttons.

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[marcello]

If you button a DB 6x2 right, you leave the bottom undone anyways.

[This Post was edited because personal attacks against members are unacceptable. -HJ]

 

[Jovan]

True, but you do need to also button the DB jacket's inside button. Minimum number of buttons that must be fastened: two.

For a 'man of action,' two are too many.

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Well, that goes without question!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Considering most of today's "bad guys" wear their pants around the butt, I think undoing 2-3 buttons is a snap.

But look here:

According to Fleming, Bond was a minimilist and didn't like fussing with unnecessary fasteners.... hence his preference to wear slip-on Chelsea boots as apposed to lacers.

I rest my case. No DBs for Bond!

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[Indy Magnoli]

Alright, Marc... you win.

Some more pics here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/galleries/index.html?in_gallery_id=10078&in_image_id=341734&in_page_id=1055

Kind regards,
Indy

 

[Jovan]

Sting looks good, except for the open collar. Paul McCartney looking very excellent in classic white tie. More no cuff showing from the both of 'em, but what can you do?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

but shurely McCartney's waistcoat is fitting all wrong? Should not extend below the the jacket, i thought . . . and rightfully so, looks terrible (as, frankly, does McCartney).

bk