Show us their suits

[sergejvandervreede]

Overdressing is such a dumb word. I would rather wear look handsome wearing a suit, hat, and overcoat than be fashionable wearing an "OCBD", loafers, and chinos.

I wish people would go to the trouble of wearing an OCBD, loafers and chinos. I'm Always amazed to see people out and about in clothing I would wear when working on my car or in the garden. Here in The Netherlands an OCBD with chinos and loafers would easily propel you into the top 5% of best dressed men.

 

[APP Adrian]

I wish people would go to the trouble of wearing an OCBD, loafers and chinos. I'm Always amazed to see people out and about in clothing I would wear when working on my car or in the garden. Here in The Netherlands an OCBD with chinos and loafers would easily propel you into the top 5% of best dressed men.

I agree.

However, I was making fun of the people on Ask Andy, Style Forum, and Male Fashion Advice.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Wow, amazing pictures!!:eusa_clap

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Carlos Gardel (left) and friends in 1928

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ fantastic picture.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Whitechapel Lad, London, circa 1910

 

[HadleyH1]

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. a classic name in the Fedora Lounge......



with Joan 1930s






in the 1920s

 

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. a classic name in the Fedora Lounge......



with Joan 1930s






in the 1920s

Super styling in the first pick: The angle of the hat, the snap of the brim plus the full-on pinstripe of the double-breasted suit - damn - and, hard to tell from the pick, but, possibly, those are suede wingtips. That outfit didn't just happen by chance. Her incredible outfit wasn't happenstance either.

Second pick - somehow the rumpled drape looks elegant on him (on me it would just look rumpled - it pays to be Douglas Fairbanks Jr.).

Third pick - great tab collar

 

[HadleyH1]

Father and son





Charlie Chaplin, dressed as The Tramp, standing outdoors with Fairbanks Jr, bandleader Paul Whiteman, and with Fairbanks Sr third from the right.

 

[HadleyH1]

Fairbanks Jr with Joan Crawford in Chantilly in 1932.

 

[Mean Eyed Matt]

Super styling in the first pick: The angle of the hat, the snap of the brim plus the full-on pinstripe of the double-breasted suit - damn - and, hard to tell from the pick, but, possibly, those are suede wingtips.

That's what I thougt, too: nice suede wingtips!

 

[Slobo]

When would we estimate that photo with Charlie Chaplin was taken?

 

[HadleyH1]

When would we estimate that photo with Charlie Chaplin was taken?

That photo was taken in 1928, during the production of the"The Circus".

 

[HadleyH1]

1940. Stewart and Grant

 

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⇧ Two men who liked clothes a lot in their personal lives - they didn't just dress well on screen.

 

[HadleyH1]

Actor Robert Montgomery wearing a classic double breasted suit...very late 1930s or perhaps early 1940s??

 

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Actor Robert Montgomery wearing a classic double breasted suit...very late 1930s or perhaps early 1940s??

I wore suits for over two decades in my career (now, infrequently, as even Wall Street has gone "business casual" or, even, outright casual), but I never, ever looked that sharp (or even close ).

 

[HadleyH1]

Stanley Tucci is an American actor and film director.

 

[HadleyH1]

it's always Gable isn't it....

Clark Gable wearing a wide peaked lapel tweed suit




Gable in It Happened One Night 1934

 

[HadleyH1]

is that a suit Gable is wearing there 1930s of course....whatever it is looks good