Hey, check out the Rosster's new old suit!

[Rooster]

I'm not sure how old it is, but it doesn't fit like a modern suit! The jacket and pants are kind of a checked brown wool with a red stripe running thru. High arm holes!:eusa_clap Boy does that feel GREAT! Has the old Union label and the brand is "Clipper craft" tailored for Peterson Harned Von Maur , Davenport, Iowa. (Right here in town)
The pants have a metal Talon zipper, and suspender buttons. The back suspender bottons are missing as the waist has been taken in. They also have drop style belt loops. Also a nearly hidden watch pocket.

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Needless to say, I'm fairly excited about this!lol The side shot displays the suit's acuall colr the closest. Please excuse the lowness of the pants, I didn't have a belt handy, and I ain't got enough butt to over ride my gut and keep my pants up.....They have a 32" inseam which is what I normally wear.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

From the 1940s. Very early '50s at the latest. Fantastic weave and colors!!! :eusa_clap

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[Rooster]

Do you suppose this is the date of manufactor?:eusa_doh: Never thought to look in the pocket.....
Loooking at the pants I think they may have been a "V" back before they were altered.

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[Marc Chevalier]

At left is the style or manufacturing number. At right is the suit's size: 44 R.

By the way, Clipper Craft was a very good brand.

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[Rooster]

At left is the style or manufacturing number. At right is the suit's size: 44 R.

By the way, Clipper Craft was a very good brand.

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Well, that makes sense as I wear a 44R.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Excellent suit. I love the material. It's not difficult sewing in some buttons for the braces. It's more difficult finding the buttons than sewing them in.

It's a great find and you wear it well.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Cool for sure. I also like the fabric a lot! The zipper fly I think would date it to some time after 1944-5?
Is there a visible date on the union label?

 

[Benny Holiday]

What a suit! Great find, Rooster. Thanks for the close-up of the fabric, it makes me appreciate the suit even more!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

1949 type union label puts t probably in the early 50s.

Please describe/show the lining.

That fabric is excellent.

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[Fletch]

That is a swell suit, and more elegant than most early 50s browns.

I remember a PHVM in Des Moines (in one of the malls), but it didn't catch on. I think it became just Von Maur, then another chain.

I bought an eBay lot of ties from Portland and one was labeled Younkers. I'm still getting used to the idea of Younkers becoming Macy*s. "The world's largest store." Bleh.