Smoking Jackets and Caps

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If you want that Sherlock Holmes style start researching Victorian dressing gowns. It should not be hard to collect the details to enable you to have one made from scratch or modified from an existing base.

I would agree, but the dressing gown in question is one Rathbone wears in the films which are set in the 1940s (although he wears the exact same dressing gown in the two films set in the proper Victorian setting). Therefore it could be a dressing gown from the 40s or a Victorian one.

And also, much as I'd like to have a dressing gown cut to the same patterns as Rathbone's, price would stop me. I've already seen that I need a real smoking jacket as well as a more classic dinner jacket (mine has notched lapels), a few classically styled suits, a few hats, shoes, ties... to round out my wardrobe.

However, what I do particularly like about Rathbone's dressing gown is the versatility - he wears it with a shirt and tie and looks just as smart as when he wears his suit.

 

[Feraud]

I would agree, but the dressing gown in question is one Rathbone wears in the films which are set in the 1940s (although he wears the exact same dressing gown in the two films set in the proper Victorian setting). Therefore it could be a dressing gown from the 40s or a Victorian one.

I hope this isn't going to become a semantic issue based on recreating a style from an old movie set in a prior period showing present period (our past) mistakes..

If you want a Victorian style then look towards real Victorian examples and not films from the 40s based in the Victorian era.

As for the price, have you priced this already? As I mentioned above, with some research and creativity you can create a very passable Victorian style smoking gown.

For the record, your notch lapel dinner jacket is classic, if not as popular as the other styles.






Somewhere out there Jovan is laughing at me.. :eusa_doh:

 

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I hope this isn't going to become a semantic issue based on recreating a style from an old movie set in a prior period showing present period (our past) mistakes..

If you want a Victorian style then look towards real Victorian examples and not films from the 40s based in the Victorian era.

As for the price, have you priced this already? As I mentioned above, with some research and creativity you can create a very passable Victorian style smoking gown.

For the record, your notch lapel dinner jacket is classic, if not as popular as the other styles.

The matter with Rathbone's dressing gown is confusing as it comes from the 40s and is used to immitate a Victorian style as well as to immitate a then contempory style. I simply like the style of his though, regardless of which period it immitates or actually comes from.

Price could well be reasonable, but I doubt I'd be able to create anything as I can't do much more than sew buttons, so I lack the skill. I could always get a tailor to make me one, but that's where price becomes a factor. That said, I won't give up and I'll carry on looking.

And people on this forum have been kind enough to prove to me that notched lapel DJ can be classic, but sadly mine is of a late 60s/early 70s cut. I'll PM a picture if you want.

 

[Tiller]

http://www.smokingjackets.co.uk/

From what I've searched these guys make the best smoking jackets (or at least what I consider to be a "real" smoking jacket). I've been saving my pennies to buy one, one of these days. Fact is though I haven't contacted them to even see if they do ship to the States, so it all maybe for not anyways lol. That said though I like the style.

 

[cptjeff]

Anybody will ship if you put up the money!

 

[Tiller]

Anybody will ship if you put up the money!

fftopic: A fellow northern New Yorker. Good to see some Potsdam students are interested in classic style.