herringbonekid
I'll Lock Up
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1910-14 wasn't a very flattering period for British menswear:
I love the speckled thornproof HBK
I've not seen that 'v' buttoning style before.
I take it no one offers anything like it, nowadays?
interesting 1915-16 jacket from an Edesco catalogue (on ebay now):
First picture: Pretty nice suit, hat, and boots with the spats. Any idea who he was, or is it an anonymous picture?
Second picture: Those are interesting clothes, all right, but so is the hair. I think it's interesting to see photographs of those who kept their hair longer/bigger than most of their contemporaries. After looking at more pictures of him, Percy Grainger seems to have done a bit like Albert Einstein in maintaining bigger, somewhat long hair most of his life. Those pictures reminded me of those hairstyles many men had during most of the 19th century until hair got shorter by the 1880s, more close to the standards of 1910.