Show us your suits

[Marc Chevalier]

Here's that 1930s Fashion Park suit I posted about earlier in this thread.

Brilliant! Compares very well to this: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=180017#post180017

 

[thunderw21]

Brilliant! Compares very well to this: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=180017#post180017

Ha! You're right. Thanks Marc.

 

[thunderw21]

That suit looks MTM and has the total vintage authentic vibe...congrats!

Thanks. It is perhaps the best fitting vintage suit I have, really feels like MTM as you said. Everything, vest, trousers, jacket are perfect width: comfortably snug but not too tight.

Length was another story. lol

 

[Fu Manchu]

Oddly compelling 3 piece?

Hello all,

I am now the proud owner of this suit.

It's everything that I usually don't like - skinny "to the max!" But what about that vest? Has anyone ever seen anything like it? That strangely compelling scoop action was enough to make me "pull the trigger." Of course I'll post pictures when it comes, but does anyone have any preliminary thoughts? Does this suit, in fact, date from the 90's?

Weird.

(but cool?)

Dan

 

[Nick D]

Hello all,

I am now the proud owner of this suit.

It's everything that I usually don't like - skinny "to the max!" But what about that vest? Has anyone ever seen anything like it? That strangely compelling scoop action was enough to make me "pull the trigger." Of course I'll post pictures when it comes, but does anyone have any preliminary thoughts? Does this suit, in fact, date from the 90's?

Weird.

(but cool?)

Dan

It looks like a hybrid of a three piece suit and a dinner suit. I've seen that type of waistcoat with a suit a couple times, but only a couple.

 

[jcw122]

Why does everyone never smile in their pictures? You guys look like your not having fun, or like your zombies or something.

 

[Howard Hughes]

SUIT AGE

Hello all,

I am now the proud owner of this suit.

It's everything that I usually don't like - skinny "to the max!" But what about that vest? Has anyone ever seen anything like it? That strangely compelling scoop action was enough to make me "pull the trigger." Of course I'll post pictures when it comes, but does anyone have any preliminary thoughts? Does this suit, in fact, date from the 90's?

Weird.

(but cool?)



Dan

Hello Sir,
The suit looks classic late 60's/early 70's, British, to my untrained eye.

Toodleoo
HH

 

[Fu Manchu]

It looks like a hybrid of a three piece suit and a dinner suit. I've seen that type of waistcoat with a suit a couple times, but only a couple.

Interesting. How would you suggest that I finish the outfit? Skinny tie or bow tie? Stingy brim fedora or homburg?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

... or like you're zombies or something.

Not zombies: ghouls. We exhume old corpses, toss 'em out of their caskets and strip off their clothes. Didn't you know?

.

 

[jamespowers]

Not zombies: ghouls. We exhume old corpses, toss 'em out of their caskets and strip off their clothes. Didn't you know?

.

That's where you get all that stuff! Makes sense now.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

That's where you get all that stuff! Makes sense now.

I have an excellent dry cleaner.

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[jamespowers]

I have an excellent dry cleaner.

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I can just hear his remarks.
"Where did you get this? Out of a grave?"
"Why yes, how did you know?"lol

 

[davestlouis]

Oh, the stories I could tell...I work in the funeral trade, and was a cemeterian for several years too.

 

[jamespowers]

Oh, the stories I could tell...I work in the funeral trade, and was a cemeterian for several years too.

So you must have a decent watch and ring collection.

 

[davestlouis]

Stealing from the families we serve is absolutely verboten, but I have to share a funny story...

I was working at a funeral home when I was in college in the 1980s. Our removal guys rolled into the garage, with a recently-deceased gentleman on the cot. He had dropped dead while working in his garden. He had on brand new black Reebok sneakers. Several of us put our feet up to his, to see if his shoes would fit, because he was going to be cremated, shoes and all. Alas, they were too small. It was disrespectful but seemed amusing to me at the time.

I never cease to be amazed at how many men own one suit, or no suits at all. We sell suits, shirts, ties, and whatnot, because so many people don't own appropriate burial clothing.

 

[jamespowers]

Stealing from the families we serve is absolutely verboten, but I have to share a funny story...

I was working at a funeral home when I was in college in the 1980s. Our removal guys rolled into the garage, with a recently-deceased gentleman on the cot. He had dropped dead while working in his garden. He had on brand new black Reebok sneakers. Several of us put our feet up to his, to see if his shoes would fit, because he was going to be cremated, shoes and all. Alas, they were too small. It was disrespectful but seemed amusing to me at the time.

I never cease to be amazed at how many men own one suit, or no suits at all. We sell suits, shirts, ties, and whatnot, because so many people don't own appropriate burial clothing.

Gives new meaning to Dead Man's Clothing.
I wasn't implying you might pilfer something from the dead. Just joshing.

 

[davestlouis]

jamespowers, no offense taken.

People do ask if the burial suits are slit up the back for ease of dressing. Ours are not, but they are available either way, if anyone is curious.

 

[jamespowers]

jamespowers, no offense taken.

People do ask if the burial suits are slit up the back for ease of dressing. Ours are not, but they are available either way, if anyone is curious.

The dead tell no tales so split up the back wouldn't make much difference.
I'll have to tell my children to leave mine unslit.

 

[reetpleat]

Brilliant! Compares very well to this: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=180017#post180017

To a point, yes. But I would suggest that the suit from the magazine is quite unique and remarkable because of the length and fullness of the skirt compared to the upper body. We see it instinctively as very vintage, even though few suits we have ever seen look like it. The suit on the lounger is spectacular, but it is more the common balanced proportion.

Perhaps the magazine guy had his suit nipped at the waist a little higher by a tailor, but I don't think so. it is a fantastic vintage style.

 

[reetpleat]

jamespowers, no offense taken.

People do ask if the burial suits are slit up the back for ease of dressing. Ours are not, but they are available either way, if anyone is curious.

Like a dead atheist. All dressed up and nowhere to go.

Many of us dream about walking into an estate sale of a well dressed gentleman who kept all his old stuff. Others of us dream of finding that warehouse of stock from a shop that closed down in the 30s or 40s.

I am now going to begin dreaming of coming across a funeral home in a small town in which the unscrupulous owner kept all the good suits, stuffed the pockets with mothballs, and placed them all in a backroom from floor to ceiling.