Baron Kurtz
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Yep, that is an awesome suit.
Yep, that is an awesome suit.
Any fans of Loden or Alpine style here?
Best Regards
Also it seems to have a rather large gap between the top fly button and the waistband.
It's difficult to tell from the photos but the fabric looks similar to Keepers Tweed.
Here's the other one:
http://spijkerstof.blogspot.com/2012/03/another-german-beltback-suit.html
More photos of the "C&A - Formtreu" 30's suit (now for sale in the classifieds). German "off-the-rack" clothing is quite an interesting field, particularly "big names" like C&A... tailor manufacturing was at that time still very strong here compared to the US... in 1931 50% of German menswear was made by "small tailors". It is very interesting to read about the anger, frustration and contempt expressed in German tailor publications of the 1920-40's over the expanding industrial "confection" production of clothing.
As a sidenote, "C&A" had for years among many Germans the reputation of helping Catholic causes.