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Cheers: I just press 'print screen' then paste into photoshop. That allows me to correct the images when necessary.
For years, did the small knot. Now, depending on the tie, prefer larger knots. Agree about double-breasted suit jackets, though do like and own double-breasted top coats. EarlGood shots. Those are some tiny tie knots. They look far more elegant than large knots in my opinion.
Can't seem to get into double breasted suits though... [huh]
I guess you just forgot to type DB. This "rule" only pertains to DB dinner jackets. According to German fashion sage "Baron von Eelking" it was in 1936, in Garmisch, Bavaria during the Winter Olympics, that the DB Tux was first worn with marcella lay-down collar, which has become the "norm" for DB tux. But German illustrations from 1938 still show wing collar with DB tux. Later on it is the lay-down collar.Remember the 'rule' about never wear a wing collar with a dinner jacket? Well, these chaps don't:
That was indeed the practice of laundries in the UK until the 1960s at least.Also from 'Death Drives Through':
There is a scene in a laundry in which a missing man is located when the woman in the laundry recognises the number of the shirt in the back of the collar as being the number from his shirt...I'm assuming the number was put into a shirt and collar by the laundry so that they could be reunited after being laundered?
That was indeed the practice of laundries in the UK until the 1960s at least.
Thanks - as far as I can tell these sportcoats with no lapels entered Europe in 1938. I wonder what the earliest US example for this fashion would be.