Suits - Pre 1920

[Mathematicus]

Great jacket! And very well put outfit too!

 

[The Good]

Very nice, Papperskatt!

 

[Dostioffsky]

Otto Dix

 

[Papperskatt]

That is a really cool jacket. Do you have any idea what year it might be?

 

[herringbonekid]

i've got a book on Otto Dix and that photo is labelled 'around 1923' (which could be wrong of course).

 

[Dostioffsky]

The button stance and cutaway front remind me a lot of that trimmed jacket of mine. But I just looked up his year of birth, which is 1891, so it's probably a bit later. He looks about the same age on this picture, which apparently is from 1925-26:

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What's quite interesting is that in his paintings suit jackets are often depicted with the buttons equally close together. These below are actually all from 1922-23, so the date in the book might well be right!

 

[Papperskatt]

I didn't get much work done today after I realised that the museum that I've just started working in have a large digital photographic archive.



I wonder if we have any actual suits stored somewhere... shhhhhhhh

 

[herringbonekid]

good luck with the new job P.:eusa_clap

those 1900-1914 jackets are just not flattering though, (IMO).

 

[Patrick Hall]

Ditto. long and baggy not a good look. Especially with pegged trousers.

 

[Papperskatt]

good luck with the new job P.:eusa_clap

those 1900-1914 jackets are just not flattering though, (IMO).

Thanks!

Yes, I tend to agree. However, when it's done well it can be really good! But most of the time it's quite ugly. Interesting, but ugly.

 

[herringbonekid]

definitely interesting.

i do like these shorter jackets though, with the round front:

 

[Papperskatt]

 

[Two Types]

Elsewhere on the FL we have discussed the failure of film makers to accurately costume male characters for the period of the film. Here's a good example from the 1945 film 'They Were Sisters'. The film opens in 1919 however the men simply wear 1940s suits with straw boaters and stiff collars to give it a period feel:

nowhere is the 1940s cut more obvious than in the shoulders of this suit:

 

[Papperskatt]

 

[herringbonekid]

now that is a high belt on the first one.

 

[Papperskatt]

 

[HadleyH]

 

[Dostioffsky]

Look at those tucks around the waist of his jacket!

I love everything about the outfit on the left.

 

[Papperskatt]

Nice jazz suit in the first pic! And I agree, the outfit on the left in the second picture is just about perfect.

 

[Papperskatt]

Ca 1919.