The 1920 JAZZ SUIT

[Fidena]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Rare-19...&otn=3&po=LVI&ps=63&clkid=3801289466954577490

Here's a good example on Ebay.

 

[Dinerman]

Going through some family photos from the '20s.

On the right on my great grandfather, Herman Strobel. Dig the loud shirt on his friend to the left.

Detail of what looks to be the same suit.

On the far right. A wedding in rural Ohio.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

I think I shared this picture before but it seems fitting:

1922

 

[Dinerman]

A lot of jazz suits in here. A lot of other things too. Check out all the pocket arrangements and fancy backs.

1919-1921.

 

[Feraud]

The choices are near endless! Compare this with walking into any men's shop today..

 

[herringbonekid]

interesting stuff Dinerman. do you have any actual old copies of the 'The Clothier and Furnisher' ?
i've never heard of it before.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Not really jazzy, but Dinerman's pics feature something similar. This is Clothcraft by Joseph & Feiss. Undated and very much more conservative than many of the illustrations. I do have another one hanging around somewhere, it's a Hart Schaffner Marx, probably middle 1920s. I'll need to dig it out sometime …

Extreme angle and low position on the breast pocket:

 

[Dinerman]

The choices are near endless! Compare this with walking into any men's shop today..

A good number of issues are digitized on google books. Lots of pattern diagrams and discussions of minute details of design and tailoring, what's in for the year and how it compares to what was in last year. You'd love it.

 

[Qirrel]

A good number of issues are digitized on google books. Lots of pattern diagrams and discussions of minute details of design and tailoring, what's in for the year and how it compares to what was in last year. You'd love it.

They are also available on the Hathi Trust Digital Library (many of the older issues, too).

 

[herringbonekid]

the same 'Toggery' ?

 

[scotrace]

I am re-linking all these photos against future breakage.