Show us their suits

[RobStC]

May just be a coincidence, but the fact that 4 of the 5 photos are of people with bicycles perhaps indicates that the cut-away jackets were a cycling related item? Very practical if so.....

 

[Qirrel]

Back then the common jacket was literally a lounge jacket/sports jacket. It had not yet replaced the frock coat and morning coat as daytime business wear.

 

[Mario]

May just be a coincidence, but the fact that 4 of the 5 photos are of people with bicycles perhaps indicates that the cut-away jackets were a cycling related item? Very practical if so.....

It's the bee's knees to have your knees free for cycling. So to speak.

 

[Two Types]

this needs to be discussed at a later date:

Is that Adrian - 1930s film costume designer?

 

[herringbonekid]

Is that Adrian - 1930s film costume designer?

it certainly looks like him, but the photo wasn't titled as such.
the photo was illustrating 'drape' on a thread on a tailoring forum, and that is some serious drape in the chest area.
also some serious peaks.

 

[GoldenEraFan]

Interesting belted hollywood jacket circa 1946.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simpson2011/6809993484/sizes/o/in/pool-36236446@N00/

 

[thunderw21]

^Two tone Norfolk jacket.

 

[herringbonekid]

Norfolk styled Hollywood jacket.

 

[Mario]

Love it. I think Matt has a similar one:

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[herringbonekid]

HS&M, 1915:

Luchino Visconti, 1935:

 

[Baron Kurtz]

does that mean that whatever height you are, you're getting a 30" long jacket?

 

[Qirrel]

does that mean that whatever height you are, you're getting a 30" long jacket?

30" is likely for the 36" or 38" breast proportionate figure. They probably had long and short sizes, too.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I was imagining a very strange system in which even if you were 6 foot 6, or 4 foot 9, you had to put up with a 30" jacket …

 

[Tomasso]

I was imagining a very strange system in which even if you were 6 foot 6, or 4 foot 9, you had to put up with a 30" jacket …

That was the case with Pendleton's iconic '49er' jacket.

 

[Barmey]

This has probably been discussed at length already, but did the Kuppenheimer and Hart Schaffner Marx tailoring of the 10s and 20s really look as good as their advertising?

 

[Qirrel]

This has probably been discussed at length already, but did the Kuppenheimer and Hart Schaffner Marx tailoring of the 10s and 20s really look as good as their advertising?

If you were exactly like the proportionate figure to begin with, yes. Many of the fashion advertisments from those years are very stylized and exaggerated though.

 

[herringbonekid]

... also we don't have much (if any) fashion photography of those outfits to back it up, unlike today when you can easily find photos of any big menswear brand.


p.s. Barmey, leave a couple more comments on the Lounge (you need 15 posts before you can send or receive private messages); i have something to PM you about.

 

[Barmey]

Sure thing!

 

[Dinerman]

then the opposite extreme happened around 1910 to the mid teens; jackets that were very long with flared skirts.

you can see this style on its way to becoming the 'jazz suit' of the late teens-early 20s.
i find these jackets to be something of a fashion disaster and wonder how men were ever persuaded they looked good in them.





(streaky looking) scans are from this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Menswear-Vi...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351432222&sr=1-2

I just got a suit from that era in. Very odd cut.

 

[herringbonekid]

Vera Lynn in a BBC studio circa 1940: