Pre-1950s British/European sportswear and leisurewear

[Two Types]

Great stuff - someone should replicate these. Jumpers that you wear with a tie!

I'd be interested to see a full shot of the collar worn by the chap in the boater - it looks to be a very pointed soft collar.

 

[herringbonekid]

Great stuff - someone should replicate these. Jumpers that you wear with a tie!

Old Town have done a version called the Hemsby which has a dark stripe across the chest.
it resembles the thicker ones, though the collar isn't as deep.

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[Two Types]

It's hard to tell, but do you think that's a buttonhole on the collar?

 

[herringbonekid]

i think it is.

 

[Fastuni]

Faux-Suede/Moleskin zipper jacket with RIES zippers. Elasticated sides.

Zipped cardigan... a conversion I made myself:

 

[Two Types]

What date is the brown jacket? Any labels etc?

 

[Fastuni]

No labels at all - it is also entirely unlined. The cut is 1930s, the zippers may hint more towards 40-50's.
Possibly home-sewn - as there is a lot of wonk with the seams.
I added the knit cuffs to extend the sleeves.

 

[Fastuni]

1941 - French POWs in Germany. Quite a variety of sweaters. But I like the zipped jacket best, as one might have guessed.

http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/80138410/df_hauptkatalog_0357952

 

[Fastuni]

1929, police at a communist rally in Leipzig.

Source and original image: http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/71229505

 

[Two Types]

That really is one for the knitwear fans!

 

[herringbonekid]

shawl collar and a jazzy design ! holy grail sweater.

 

[Fastuni]

Modern ladies sweater vest "vintagefied" with 1930's DICO zipper.

 

[DAJE]

1941 - French POWs in Germany. Quite a variety of sweaters. But I like the zipped jacket best, as one might have guessed.

Interesting (to me) that a couple of them are wearing knee-length puttees; by the 40s most armies had switched to gaiters and those still wearing puttees had mostly switched to ankle-length short puttees.

Perhaps they are wearing leftover WW1 gear - it was only 20-25 years old at that stage and might have been sitting in French warehouses, and been supplied to French PoWs. The trousers look much more like WW1 than WW2 uniforms to me, too, though some officers were still wearing breeches in the 40s.

 

[Two Types]

Interesting (to me) that a couple of them are wearing knee-length puttees; by the 40s most armies had switched to gaiters and those still wearing puttees had mostly switched to ankle-length short puttees.

Perhaps they are wearing leftover WW1 gear - it was only 20-25 years old at that stage and might have been sitting in French warehouses, and been supplied to French PoWs. The trousers look much more like WW1 than WW2 uniforms to me, too, though some officers were still wearing breeches in the 40s.

In the earl stages of WW2 the Germans issued all manner of uniforms to prisoners of war. Such as these British POWs wearing French kepis (at Stalag 8b):

and these Brits are wearing a mix of uniforms:

It appears the Germans simply emptied enemy barracks of whatever clothing they found and issued it to POWs regardless of nationality. The chap seated on the left of the picture above spent the winter of 1940 wearing a floor length Polish cavalryman's greatcoat.

 

[Fastuni]

French corduroy jacket by famous workwear maker "Adolphe Lafont".
Zippers of course by Eclair.

 

[herringbonekid]

nice !

the shoulders look very thickly padded... or does your dummy have very square shoulders ?

 

[Fastuni]

Both! They are quite padded, but the mannequin slightly exaggerates the actual effect.

 

[Two Types]

From 'The Silver Fleet' (1943). John Longden wearing an interesting belt-back leisure jacket:

Also a corduroy jacket:

 

[tropicalbob]

I see so many beautiful jackets on this forum, but every now and then one shows up that really tugs at your heart. That LaFont corduroy does it for me: a true "grail" jacket.

 

[herringbonekid]

more of those British cream deep collared jumpers: