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Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

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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.....

I'd buy a copy for myself and one or two as gifts.

And good point about diamond weave vis-a-vis pheasant's eye. We need somebody with more knowledge than I to answer that one though.
 
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$5K a copy, to be paid in Plaid Stamps!? :D

Okay, then, maybe not. Kidding aside, I have grumbled but bought a few hundred-plus dollar "special edition" books, but $5k is way out of my league.

I bought this book for $75 (and grumbled about the price) when it came out in 2011:
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But I have seen in-top-condition ones sell for several hundred dollars on eBay in the past year. I have no intention of selling it, but it's fun, once in awhile, to feel like you "won" one.
 

Flanderian

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Okay, then, maybe not. Kidding aside, I have grumbled but bought a few hundred-plus dollar "special edition" books, but $5k is way out of my league.

I bought this book for $75 (and grumbled about the price) when it came out in 2011:
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But I have seen in-top-condition ones sell for several hundred dollars on eBay in the past year. I have no intention of selling it, but it's fun, once in awhile, to feel like you "won" one.

Ahh . . . , but subscription based books are much better! (For the seller, me! :D) You front the big $$$, and sometime (Maybe!) later you receive your pig in a poke! :D :D :D
 

Michael A

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Do I notice the overcoats gaining a little length in '45? And did Lord Calvert move down market? Or is he just relaxing in the brown tweed after wars end?

Michael
 

Fastuni

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The herringbone sportcoat in the last Lord Calvert ad is lovely, but the shirt and tie are a horrid combination with it.
 

Fastuni

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I find it quite interesting how dominant single breasted overcoats were in late 30's and 40's US fashion as compared to Europe, where the double breasted Ulsters and Paletots reigned well into the 50's.
Climatic differences certainly were a factor.
 

Tiki Tom

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As has been noted before, the people in the drawings look so much better than the people in the photographs. So, folks, dress as though you are in an Esquire illustration.

I always thought it was a truism that the preference/style was for curvier women’s figures in the golden era. Apparently not in Esquire. All these dames got the tall, skinny look that highfalutin fashion still seems to demand today.
 

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Astonishing to me that this publication didn’t refuse to print Lord Calvert ads.
Watching the small printing it’s already been those old days a pretty cheap booze and still is today. Just found a Walmart ad for 1.75l of that defroster for under 16,- bucks...:D
 

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