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Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

Flanderian

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These are February 1945's illustrations.


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The coolest garment on that stage is the nurse's navy-reverses-to-red cloak.
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He's either eight feet tall or she's four and half feet tall. He either weights 400 pounds or she weights 60. The scale between the two of them is way off.
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Interestingly, not a word about linen or silk.
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Diamond-ish pattern.
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In the WWII-era period movie, "The Way We Were," this location is exactly where a crushed, curly haired and insecure Katie Morosky, dying a bit inside, says to Hobbell Gardiner, upon seeing his uber-blonde, uber-WASP girlfriend (Katie's replacement) for the first time, "You're girl is lovely, Hubbell."
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(The camera is, effectively, shooting from the fountain looking toward the hotel)
 

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Interestingly, not a word about linen or silk.
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Diamond-ish pattern.
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In the WWII-era period movie, "The Way We Were," this location is exactly where a crushed, curly haired and insecure Katie Morosky, dying a bit inside, says to Hobbell Gardiner, upon seeing his uber-blonde, uber-WASP girlfriend (Katie's replacement) for the first time, "You're girl is lovely, Hubbell."
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(The camera is, effectively, shooting from the fountain looking toward the hotel)

Nice find! So apt and handsome a film clip.

Seems odd to see Babs and Bobby so young, now so many years ago.
 

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Since even Cary Grant can't make the "collarless" blazer look good, I'm glad it had a short life.
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Diamond-patterned Tweed
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Certainly a variety of diamond pattern tweed. Does the center dot qualify it as pheasant's eye tweed?

Were I a younger man, I might wish to research and produce an in-depth (I.e., entirely commercially non-viable.) richly illustrated history of tweed, researched (In person, of course! ;)) in Scotland where there's still some knowledge of the myriad of patterns and their proper nomenclature. Would make one heck of a coffee table book that would cost far too much, and be of interest to far too few. :(

Might fly though as a limited edition subscription based book for sartorialists blessed with very abundant lucre.

But the hipster with the collarless blazer is getting “the look”.

I recall the collarless jacket as a fashion revived for a season or two in the late '50's or very early '60's. As an unconstructed, often brightly hued jacket of inexpensive cotton, linen and sometimes even terry cloth, it actually didn't look that bad as dressier summer beach wear.
 

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