Show us their suits

[Mario]

Looks like the guy on the right has only the lower button fastened on his jacket.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

They didn't have as many menswear blogs and Alan Flusser books back then...

 

[Mario]

Poor sods.

 

[Tomasso]

They didn't have as many menswear blogs and Alan Flusser books back then...

Yes, how could they possibly know that they were breaking a Rule while simutainiously displaying Sprezzatura..........

 

[Chowderhouse]

Don't know who this bloke is, or whether this is his own suit. The photo was taken recently. No, it's not Denzel Washington.

 

[flat-top]

That is RRL^

 

[Chowderhouse]

That is RRL^

Thank God for RRL.

 

[Chasseur]

Damn fine looking tweed there.

 

[DamianM]

A great looking suit

 

[Feraud]

I was at an RRL store recently and a few of their selections were simply gorgeous.

 

[flat-top]

I was at an RRL store recently and a few of their selections were simply gorgeous.

Yes, it's just amazing stuff. And I can't afford any of it, but it's inspiring just the same.

 

[Mario]

Why Ralph Lauren continues to be godlike. Check out the belted back:


http://www.ebay.com/itm/RALPH-LAURE...SA_MC_Blazers_Sport_Coats&hash=item2ec2ed2e91

Nice one - even though this doesn't really belong here. Better put it in the Vintage Finds and Deals section.

 

[Rudie]

I don't like the low button stance. He should have dropped the bottom button. It would be a very nice 2-button coat then.

 

[herringbonekid]

around 1900 there was a trend for short jackets with very curved cutaway front quarters.

i rather like this style.

 

[herringbonekid]

then the opposite extreme happened around 1910 to the mid teens; jackets that were very long with flared skirts.

you can see this style on its way to becoming the 'jazz suit' of the late teens-early 20s.
i find these jackets to be something of a fashion disaster and wonder how men were ever persuaded they looked good in them.





(streaky looking) scans are from this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Menswear-Vi...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351432222&sr=1-2

 

[thunderw21]

They look like pears. Reminds me of current trends.

 

[Tomasso]

I don't particularly like either of those cuts.

 

[Two Types]

Here is Leslie Philipps in 'The Pool of London' (1950). He is wearing a jacket with three flapped pockets, all of which have a large rounded button to close them.

The same year Dirk Bogarde appeared to wear the same jacket in 'The Blue Lamp' (the films were released six weeks apart and were both made by Ealing Studios):

And here is Bogarde again wearing that jacket, in 'The Woman in Question' with the wonderful Jean Kent:

 

[Mario]

Rakish Django. I really like this.

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[LoveMyHats2]

around 1900 there was a trend for short jackets with very curved cutaway front quarters.

i rather like this style.

Those are some great pictures! I have to say, I'd be very interested to own the bicycles that are pictured as well!