Show us your suits

[Veronica Parra]

Any Art Deco pipes in your future, jamespowers?

 

[Veronica Parra]

Any chance you'll be bringing things to sell at the QM instead of EBAY?

I'd love to, but I can't. I have two papers due for school the Monday after the QM, and next weekend is our first wedding anniversary! I'm still not sure how I'll juggle the two.

-- Marc

 

[jamespowers]

Any Art Deco pipes in your future, jamespowers?

I just bought about a dozen of them not too long ago and still haven't sorted them out yet. That Jet Pipe is interesting though. It looks like one I used to have of course there were probably quite a few made.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Matt Deckard]

Hey... take it to General attire and accoutrements.

 

[Wild Root]

Yes, please lest see Suits!

=WR=

 

[Matt Deckard]

Let me make it a little easier. 21 pages is a little much, and I think it is making it easier to veer off topic.

Please take your suits to...

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=5034

 

[Matt Deckard]

Show us your suits the Second

If you want to check out the old thread click here. http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=53

The first one was getting unweildly.

Show us your suits!

 

[Mr. Rover]

We should start a thread called "Show us your stripes"! Afterall, they'll always be popular!
This is my new Hart, Schaffner, Marx jacket (no pants). Tell me if you think its more on the blue or green side.
It's a bit big in the shoulders, so I'm going to get it taken in.

ray

 

[The real Henry]

I'd say it's more blue, but I think we would have to see it in person! Any way cool one!

@ Matt: I like that look, espacially the paper between ribbon and hat. Great look!

 

[jamespowers]

Mild mannered reporter by day and Superman when needed.

Looks very 40s now. I hope you don't mind the switch.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Matt Deckard]

Very nice jacket ghos. In that you can take on the world.

JP... I think i like the color better, though thanks for taking it out.

 

[DanielJones]

I'd have to agree Matt. The color picture has a feel of the older film with the magenta hue to it.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Daniel Riser]

Queen Mary pics coming soon ;-) Finally I'll get to show off my collegiate look.. oh and by the way Mr. Deckard...

Thanks for starting part II. Part I was getting out of hand.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Some excellent suits, gentlemen. We do need some pics of ghostassassin wearing his jacket, however

I'll get around to posting some of mine soon. It'll be a nice day here for outdoor photgraphs tomorrow. I had quite a run of luck on ebay recently so have some new purchases to show. And a recent trip to San Francisco, though mostly disappointing due to absurdly high prices, yielded one excellent mid-50s english glen urquhart plaid three piece from a thrift store. It's slightly large so it'll have to go to the tailor (my wife's seamstress, the only competent person in town) before i model it.

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

It was indeed a nice day for outdoor photography, though our digital camera is a total piece of crap :rage: These were the best we could do. Not too bad ...

An early-mid 50s DB that i picked up on ebay about a month ago for $18.50. I think noone else bid because the seller had somehow managed to measure the trousers waist at 26 inches. I took a gamble and the waist turns out to be 30-31 inches. Perfect! The first i've bought that needed no alteration at all ... what a steal. I apologise for the number of images. I tried to reduce their file sizes as much as possible:

Full length

Full Length w/ Zombie face

Jacket close-up

High waist pants - 12 inch rise

Dropped belt loops close-up

And it Passes the Deckard test

A couple of details:

Excellent buttons & cool wavy stitching behind the collar

 

[Veronica Parra]

Very cool suit! You took a gamble and won. Feels great, doesn't it?

 

[BellyTank]

The trousers are KooL!

Looks maybe a little earlier in style than you mentioned...?

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[Baron Kurtz]

Looks maybe a little earlier in style than you mentioned...?

I've been trying to decide on the dating of this suit. I assumed early-mid 50s because of the dropped belt loops, but now i see that dropped belt loops were around earlier - since the 30s apparently.

There is very little to go on for era, but hopefully some one here can help me. What is everyones opinion? I'll tell you all i can ...

There are no union tags or makers tags of any kind. The handwritten name Gonzalez appears two times - once on the inside trousers, and once on the lining of the right arm. Also handwritten are:

Inside right arm: (at cuff) 3/5/4-6 followed by someones initials and 6466-3
(at shoulder) 100 Gonzalez

Inside right front pocket lining:

Gonzalez
3/5/4-6 and initials
L (or 6) 4663
7440

The inside 'waistband' of the trousers is lined with cotton ticking, the arms are lined with striped silk. The trousers are button fly - 5 buttons including the top one.

This has been driving me nuts. The 3/5/4-6 initially made me believe it was made in 1946, but the trousers are cuffed and i thought that rationing laws would still be in effect in March '46.

Is there anything really obvious that could lead me to a date? How rare is it to find something without union tags?

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Very cool suit! You took a gamble and won. Feels great, doesn't it?

Yes, yes it does!

 

[BellyTank]

Maybe it wasn't made in the US... maybe south..?

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