Show us their suits

[herringbonekid]

I figure that this kind of lapel existed already in the tens and twenties and may have gotten the name after the fact.

yes.
i do something similar on my own jackets, but with the lapel edge nearer horizontal.

 

[herringbonekid]

that striped suit with a taped edge is quite something !

 

[amoulet69]

Cannot go through without mentioning James Bond once again. I love vests.

 

[cookie]

Carlos Gardel

The great man himself...an Argentine immortal...Argentinazo....

 

[Fastuni]

Polish poet Tadeusz Gajcy (who died during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising) wearing a nice striped patch-pocket suit.

Source: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia/113/

 

[Nick D]

Cary Grant in The Woman Accused. Tweed suit with patch pockets and it looks like a double breasted waistcoat. I want to find this movie so that 1) I can see a Cary Grant film I haven't yet and 2) to get the details of this suit.

 

[DamianM]

Cary Grant in The Woman Accused. Tweed suit with patch pockets and it looks like a double breasted waistcoat. I want to find this movie so that 1) I can see a Cary Grant film I haven't yet and 2) to get the details of this suit.

That is Blasphemy!

But i all seriousness
Watch "Bringing up baby" and "Mr Lucky"

Great films really. Love them.

 

[Nick D]

I've seen Bringing Up Baby, but not Mr Lucky yet.

The suit I would wear in a heartbeat (and it will probably go on my to-do list when I've perfected my db waistcoat pattern).

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

Not a suit but a rather rad sport coat / leisure jacket thingy. With zipper pockets.

Caption says: Marlene Dietrich photographed aboard the SS Normandie with her husband Rudolf Sieber (1937).

 

[Fastuni]

Fantastic - thank you. A zipper-pocket sportcoat/suit/leisure jacket is something I badly need.

Searching images of Rudolf Sieber yields more nice results:

In France 1933 (also something for the gals in guys garb thread) - great suit and coat combos:

source: http://encyclopediagforpollogica.blogspot.de/2011/12/marlene-dietrich.html

Also a great zigzag patterned coat:

source: tumblr

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

something I badly need.

This made me laugh. I know what you mean. Do you have time to sew at the moment?

 

[Fastuni]

This made me laugh. I know what you mean.

We understand each other. Of course I don't really "need" it. Rather "want" it (along with many other things).

Do you have time to sew at the moment?

Not really - at least not for more ambitious projects. I try to continue a number of projects then and now when I have the time. Mostly I do alterations on newly bought stuff, in other words letting out legs, sleeves and waistbands. Otherwise I'm piling up fabrics and ingredients until I find enough time (and energy) to pull through a project (and do it right). High-up on my to do list would be first a bunch of solid trousers to wear with odd jackets. But a zipper-pocket sport-coat with fancy back is also a must have (I have the fabric and zippers at least).

 

[Two Types]

Bela Lugosi has a nice three piece belted back tweed suit with patch pockets for the first half of Black Cat

Sorry I could not find a photo of the back of the jacket...

So here are a couple of screen grabs:

Quite an arched yoke:

and the back in action:

He also wears a stunning art-deco styled robe:

Bela is rather more sedately dressed in the second half of the film:

Also in the film is David Manners. I like the very high pin on his collar:

Interestingly, he wears this suit for most of the film:

Note the peak-lapels.

In one scene he enters the bedroom wearing that suit, only to sit on the bed wearing a suit with rather unusual lapels (it's not a style I've seen before):

Seconds later he reappears in the corridor wearing the peak lapels!!!

 

[Metatron]

I love the zipper sports coat thingy.

Here's a cool jacket from La Jour Se Leve


Very dandyfied outfit, though he pulls it off so casually (or is it that the black and white tones the whole thing down?):
Patterned, pleated peak lapeled jacket, patterned vest, patterned shirt. At least he isn't wearing a patterned tie too!

 

[Two Types]

Is that a pleated jacket front or pleated breast pockets?

 

[herringbonekid]

TT, it looks like ye olde triple pleat pocket:

 

[Two Types]

Also, I can't tell from the resolution on this monitor, but is it a single button jacket?

It is very, very nice.

 

[Metatron]

Yes, it looks like a one button jacket. You can see buttons on the breast pockets too here.

 

[Two Types]

The jacket also looks very short.

 

[Tomasso]

The jacket also looks very short.

Yes and the front quarters look uneven.