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[Baron Kurtz]

As good a place as any to post this:

 

[Mario]

That looks like an incredibly long jacket.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

it was, iirc, 33-34 inches long. Very long legs and arms too. The chap was very fat, though, so no chance of it fitting you, Mario.

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[Mario]

No doubt about that. 33-34" length would have been way too long for me anyway. I was just wondering about the rather high placement of the lower button (the button spacing looks pretty wide too). But if the guy was really fat he would have needed a lot of fabric to cover his tummy.

 

[Metatron]

I was wondering if there is a possibility of dating these trousers? They are dark charcoal-black wool with side adjustment straps, and the fit is definitely nor modern: wide legs, low crotch, high waist.

Hopefully this torn label might provide a hint to those in the know, It feels to me like thin card.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

They were made by Burton (the label is unmistakeable if you've seen enough of them), and with DAKS adjustors, and the type of waistband tape, probably date to late 50s.

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[Metatron]

Well, I'm impressed! Thanks Baron.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Another one from the archives. 30s, probably. Fit is weird as far too big for my mannequin, and the buttons have been moved around strangely. There're those slightly downard-pointing lapels again …

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[Two Types]

The Well-Dressed Man (1925)

So it's May 1925, Oxford bags are at the height (and width) of fashion and who do we find writing a column on men's fashions in the Daily Mail?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I'm sure that disabled immigrant single mothers on benefits - 4 kids to 6 different fathers! - were at the root of all male fashion evils in 1925, then! And the fascists were the answer!!!

[EDIT] that probably makes much more sense to British readers. Awful, hateful newspaper.

 

[Chasseur]

I'm sure that disabled immigrant single mothers on benefits - 4 kids to 6 different fathers! - were at the root of all male fashion evils in 1925, then! And the fascists were the answer!!!

[EDIT] that probably makes much more sense to British readers. Awful, hateful newspaper.

Also the necessity to ban the import of foreign root vegetables!

[video=youtube;JYWRu8uT8z8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWRu8uT8z8[/video]

 

[Two Types]

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I'm sure that disabled immigrant single mothers on benefits - 4 kids to 6 different fathers! - were at the root of all male fashion evils in 1925, then! And the fascists were the answer!!!

[EDIT] that probably makes much more sense to British readers. Awful, hateful newspaper.

Twenty years ago I worked with an old fellow who'd been a typesetter on the Daily Mail back in the 1930s. He told me the page was supposed to go out with the headline 'Huge Blackshirt Rally!' Instead, the first edition left the presses reading 'Huge Black**** Rally!'

 

[Salieri]

I'm sure that disabled immigrant single mothers on benefits - 4 kids to 6 different fathers! - were at the root of all male fashion evils in 1925, then! And the fascists were the answer!!!

[EDIT] that probably makes much more sense to British readers. Awful, hateful newspaper.

Surely you've forgotten about 'Islamists'... And that Oxford bags probably either cure or cause cancer.

 

[Ben Stephens]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

(Warning a little bit of swearing and bad language)

 

[Mario]

Some more scans from Montague Burton:

http://www.movinghere.org.uk/search/..\deliveryfiles\WYAS\WYL1951_192_13\0\1.pdf
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/search/..\deliveryfiles\WYAS\WYL1951_192_13\0\2.pdf
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/search/..\deliveryfiles\WYAS\WYL1951_192_13\0\3.pdf

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/08/montague-burton-catalogue-1934/

Some of the fragmented PDFs TT posted some time back can be found here assembled into single PDFs (btw: I believe Andres's & Pygott is the site of FL member Salieri...):

http://andrewsandpygott.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/montague-burton-project-1-sales-brochures/

Getting measured at Burton's in 1938:

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[Baron Kurtz]

This silk one was made for a British Colonial something-or-other in China or Hong Kong. According to the original owner's family, this would have been in the late 1920s. Who knows if this is true, but that's what they said.

This is wearable thanks to a truly amazing washing job by Miss Sis. When I got it, it seemed like it had been rolled in bitumen or something similar. She managed to get the vast majority of it out, making it wearable.

 

[Two Types]

Words can't express how much I adore that jacket. That's my 'drinking, smoking, lounging around in summertime' dream.

 

[Mario]

Words can't express how much I adore that jacket. That's my 'drinking, smoking, lounging around in summertime' dream.

:arated: There's nothing I could add to that...

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Yes, Baron. The clock is still there.

That would be Charing Cross Road, heading south to the left. bet there were still some bookshops then … Does anyone remember if that clock is still there?

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[Mario]

Pete - your PM box is FULL!