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[Two Types]

I like the vest on Bickford in the top photo.

Who doesn't?

 

[Two Types]

More screen grabs:

Saloon Bar (1945)

Gordon Harker wearing the bold checks that mark him out as a bookie:

Alec Clunes (father of Martin Clunes) wearing a nice Donegal Tweed jacket (pleated patch pockets but no belt-back):

I'm a big fan of these 1930s belted overcoats without buttons:

Sock suspenders:

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

Front pleats. Caption says: "Hannes Stelzer. German postcard by Ross-Verlag, no. A 3134/1, 1939-1940. Photo: Haenchen / Tobis."

 

[Two Types]

I've only just learned to love jackets with two breast pockets ...

... and now you show me jackets with no breast pockets!!

Love it.

 

[Rudie]

My pleat machine has too many pleats on the chest to allow a breast pocket. The downside is, you can't carry a wallet in the inside chest pocket or you look like you have a man boob - only one. Not a good look.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Only halfway through the hormone therapy?

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

Fastuni found a 30s catalog with another "Pleatmachine". Mind if I post the picture?

 

[Rudie]

No, Flo, post ahead. I think Fastuni posted it somewhere before, didn't he?

BK, that's the look.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

I wasn't sure and couldn't find it on the first 2 pages of the suits subforum.

 

[Rudie]

Well, I haven't seen this before. Nice.

 

[Nick D]

Here's a draft from '37 with pleated front panels, back pleats, and partial belt.

 

[Fastuni]

I didn't post it here before... but just added the rest of this advertisment flyer in the 1930's German ad thread:

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?51991-German-magazine-scans-1930s/page10

Thanks Nick for the draft!

 

[Fastuni]

@Two Types

Interestingly enough German tailoring publications from 1943/44 call for omitting the ¨useless" breast pocket altogether from all suits (wartime saving measure).
One of the reasons given was that it is easier to turn the fabric of the suit and have no slit on the chest on the wrong side.

They followed the example of Danish tailors and of course tried to suggest that the pocket-less chest is more youthful.^^

 

[Two Types]

Here's selection from the mid-1930s British film Death At Broadcasting House:

 

[Two Types]

Dirk Bogarde in Hunted (1952). I rather like the weave on his sports jacket:

 

[Metatron]

Great film, but I found it hard to believe that a man on the run would let a young kid go along with him.
I like the leather jacket he wears later in the film.

 

[Two Types]

Great film, but I found it hard to believe that a man on the run would let a young kid go along with him.
I like the leather jacket he wears later in the film.

I've just posted pics of that jacket in the 'Vintage Photos of leather Jackets' thread in the outerwear section.

 

[Nick D]

Bela Lugosi, looks like sometime in the '30s. If anyone has more photos or info on this suit I'd love to know, I'd like to do a repro of it.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

Not the same as in the black cat movie, is it?

 

[Two Types]

Nick, I'm pretty sure that's the suit from The Black Cat. There are quite a few shots of that suit on the FL. I posted some pictures of the back, showing the belt back and pleats etc.