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Suits - Pre 1920

herringbonekid

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1910-14 wasn't a very flattering period for British menswear:

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Papperskatt

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I've not seen that 'v' buttoning style before.

Me neither and that's what I like about it; there's no risk of bumping in to another wearer of that style. :cool: I plan to make one for myself once I get my hands on some fabric, but that will probably take a while...

I wonder if it had a matching v-shaped waistcoat as well, like this one:

Fancy1.jpg~original
 
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The Good

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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.
 
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Two Types

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That's the one. That was a costume piece (according to Burma Schave's post on the following page) and the two are virtually identical 9making me think they might have been created for the same film).
 

HadleyH

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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.


The first picture is anonymous [huh]

The second picture.... I agree with you, the hairstyle gives a very contemporary look to Percy Grainger, he could belong to 2014...I mean it, it's quite amazing really... so different from the drawings we are used to see in fashion magazines of the time.

He reminds us that people don't change, only fashion does!:D

Here is another example of a 1910s "contemporary" hairstyle look


 

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