Esquire's Encyclopedia of 20th cent. men's fashion

[Baron Kurtz]

:cheers1:

I get free copying at the university library. So all i paid was $10 to have the pages bound after i'd copied them ...

I've just ordered volumes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 (1931) of Apparel Arts through interlibrary loan. I can get all the 30s/40s ones. I'll scan, print and have them bound one year at a time. I'd been thinking of buying them, but then i saw what Marc's copies sold for

Theft is so much cheaper ...

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Baron Kurtz, may I suggest (no, demand ) that when you receive those APPAREL ARTS editions, scan or take good digital photos of relevant pages. That's what I did with my editions before selling them, and I ended up posting most of those scans here on the Lounge. Could you post yours, too?


I think we'd all be grateful to see APPAREL ARTS:

-- Men's fashion illustrations

-- Colorful/illustrative advertisements for menswear, especially hats, suits, coats, ties, shoes, scarves, socks and suspenders

-- Selected articles on menswear


Many thanks!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Certainly. I will be taking high quality scans of the interesting stuff - including the good ads etc. I'll post these here, but they will necessarily be small file size - dial up connection at home makes it very irritating to wait for huge images to appear.

My loan request has been processed and sent out to the relevant libraries. I know U. Illinois has some of them, so it shouldn't take very long to receive them.

If anyone would like to receive them, i'll begin a mailing list to whom i'll send all the scans in all their large file size glory. PM if interested.

bk

p.s. whatever happened to the resource section that was being set up for just this kind of thing? Any progress?

 

[miss1934]

While you all have found fabulous ways to cope with this inavailibilty, I am a costume designer going off to college next year who will be quite distraught without her favorite reference book. I have read almost entirely through my favorite years, simply scanning the others, and I find it quite tempting to rob my poor library of this book. It costs 15 cents a copy, and at 700 pages that is $105.00. I sincerely believe that I am the only one to ever check this book out multiple times, and much less read it. Advice?

~Anne

 

[Baron Kurtz]

If you steal it from the library they'll charge you to replace it - $500 at the current market value! Scan it, print it and bind it. It'll cost no more than $20 to bind ...

bk

 

[scotrace]

My library rustled up a copy for me - it's absolutley amazing.

But I really wish they'd just left out the 70's stuff. It's just so hideous. And not from a snobbish "only the golden era got it right" standpoint. I mean that stuff - suits, socks, shoes, jackets, all of it - was just ugly, mismatched and foolish looking!

The book teaches a lot. Those long pointed shirt collars? "Barrymore" or "California" collars.

 

[OldSkoolFrat]

The book teaches a lot. Those long pointed shirt collars? "Barrymore" or "California" collars.

You mean the collars sported by the gangsters in Goodfellas and Casino?

 

[Jay]

But I really wish they'd just left out the 70's stuff. It's just so hideous. And not from a snobbish "only the golden era got it right" standpoint. I mean that stuff - suits, socks, shoes, jackets, all of it - was just ugly, mismatched and foolish looking!

I agree. The worst thing I remember was the tuxedo that had a one piece vest/pants combination along with a big dumb looking bowtie and of course, the ruffled shirt. Who would wear that?

 

[Fletch]

You mean the collars sported by the gangsters in Goodfellas and Casino?

Yes, only with tie space.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

and smaller (that is, thinner) collars.

The only one that looks even remotely correct is De Niro's.

bk

 

[Feraud]

What do you all think of these?

 

[Fletch]

Ai yi yi. Isn't one collar button enough?

 

[Feraud]

I own an ex-library copy. It's a great read.
When I find the time I will post portions of interest.

 

[Brian Sheridan]

I also own a copy that I found at a library sale for $10!!!!! I nearly passed out when I came across it.

If anyone has a particular section they would like to see, I can scan and post it.

 

[Edward_Lindey]

US Amazon has em for under $300,

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...F8&qid=1269014641&sr=8-1-fkmr0&condition=used

Edward

 

[skyvue]

I just won a copy of this book on Ebay. I didn't get it for ten bucks, alas, but I paid well under what appears to be the market price, so I'm happy.