Shark skin?

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80s Models

I used to have a closetful of sharkskin, but I began to weed out some of the flashier models, keeping only the muted variety as I have on in this pic.

I still have a blue nailhead sharkskin that I used to wear in my younger days. The nailheads tend to make the suit 'glow'. My advice is to stay away from both them and the 80s models. (Yes, there was a brief sharkskin revival in the 80s, and, like everything else, they got it wrong.)

Regards,

Senator Jack

So you could get up in a court of law and claimed that you were "nowhere near that 80s' model ...yer'Onor!"????

Who then were those two louche individuals with that well-suited French gentleman???

And now back to... 77 Sunset Strip ...a Warners Brothers televison production...

 

[Lincsong]

I was at one of my cousin's wedding yesterday and my Great-Uncle Pat was wearing his early '60s sharkskin suit. I didn't bring a camera with me :eusa_doh: but I'll check around and see if anyone got a picture of him wearing it. He wore it well.

 

[Feraud]

I was at one of my cousin's wedding yesterday and my Great-Uncle Pat was wearing his early '60s sharkskin suit. I didn't bring a camera with me :eusa_doh: but I'll check around and see if anyone got a picture of him wearing it. He wore it well.

Please post a picture. I would love to see it!

 

[Feraud]

Just scored a brown sharkskin suit on my lunchbreak. Found it in a Salvation Army store.
It cost less than lunch in NYC.

 

[reetpleat]

I have bought and sold probably two hundred sharksing suits over the years. I don't wear em, but I dig em. SOme of them do indeed himmer, sometimes very brightly. I imagine sometimes they have fabric other than wool such as rayon woven in. In fact, one late sixties burgendy number was new and as I recall, the tag said it was a wool rayon blend. It shimmered very brightly.

SOme may or not qualify as sharkskin, but they had several diferent tones and shimmered. Some had subtle stripes too.

Some have contrasting colors such that they look a different color depending on the angle. Such as gold and blue.

Malcolm X, in his book says they used to wear sharkskin zoot suits back in his zoot suit days. I assumed he was referring to gaberdine and suspected he was using a modern (wrote it in the sixties) term. He did not say that is what they used to call it then specifically. Not sure what fabric he meant either.

 

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Sharkskin

The English have a different suit in the 60s called the Tonic suit. It is a wool -poly -with 10% mohair mix that gives it the glow. Maybe the same effect happens with Sharkskin.

 

[Feraud]

O.k., here are some pics of the brown sharkskin suit.
The camera does not capture how the suit shimmers in the light.

 

[Lincsong]

Anyone find any lately?