Suits - Pre 1920

[herringbonekid]

triple Wow !!! which country ebay ?

 

[Papperskatt]

Here's the listing where you can see more pictures: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Edwardian-1...Ca78zILWGi9hLFQETJgSE%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

There are several moth holes in the jacket but I should be able to repair them pretty much invisibly. The trousers are unfortunately in pretty poor condition.

 

[herringbonekid]

don't know how i missed that... i check the U.S. pre-30s newly listed stuff everyday !

shame about the condition.


p.s. the jacket is quite short compared to the arm length.

 

[Papperskatt]

Well, it had only been out for two hours before I pressed the Buy It Now-button.

 

[herringbonekid]

Well, it had only been out for two hours before I pressed the Buy It Now-button.

ah, that explains it.
could have gone pretty high if they hadn't included the buy-it-now.

 

[Papperskatt]

I had a suit dated May 28th 1911 it was a bit small for me and I sold it to a friend of mine. It was definitely a forward thinking young mans design as it was fitted and had 2 high stance buttons. I love that this thread was started I'm a huge fan of the teens.

Do you have any pictures of that suit?

 

[Dostioffsky]

Wow indeed! Congratulations! And it even comes with two pairs of suspenders and a really nice tie!

 

[Papperskatt]

Thank you. Yes, the tie looks very nice. Anyone more knowledgable than me care to take a guess to how old it might be?

 

[herringbonekid]

this is dated 1921, but the waist seam suit on the left looks earlier:

 

[Papperskatt]

Interesting button arrangement on that waist seam suit.

 

[simonc]

What a great pic HBK

 

[DamianM]

It appears that it may be a DB seam suit

 

[herringbonekid]

Kuppenheimer, 1913:

 

[The Good]

I noticed that the man on the upper right appears to be wearing a casual hat. Is it a pith helmet? On the two above suits, the sleeve buttons look to be spaced further away than they would most commonly be later. I like these suits, but I'd prefer to wear one with slightly longer trousers.

I just bought this waist seam suit off of eBay.

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I am SO excited; I'm literally jumping up and down right now. Never thought that I'd find a original.

It looks black from the pictures but apparently it's blue. I assume navy.

This is a very nice looking suit, congratulations!

 

[herringbonekid]

On the two above suits, the sleeve buttons look to be spaced further away than they would most commonly be later.

yes, it was common on teens - 20s suits to have just one cuff button, or two spaced an inch and a bit apart.
i've never seen any as far apart as the first picture in real life.

 

[Rudie]

Some serious anorexia going on here. Almost cartoonish.

 

[The Good]

Some serious anorexia going on here. Almost cartoonish.

The illustrations do look exaggeratedly disproportionate. The legs and the feet all look long, and the waists are very slim. They still look a bit better than many of the fashion models for suits in recent times, though!

 

[herringbonekid]

more illustration by Leyendecker, 1919-20. the DB suit on the right has some jazz-suit style piped / bound edges:

 

[Papperskatt]

It appears that it may be a DB seam suit

That was my first thought too but there's something that doesn't make sense about it for me. I would love to see a pic of that jacket closed.

 

[herringbonekid]

That was my first thought too but there's something that doesn't make sense about it for me. I would love to see a pic of that jacket closed.

looks like a very-narrow-wrap DB. the button nearest the front edge would be the internal button. closed, it would look similar to this:

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edit: ok, i've worked it out. it would look like this:

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no ... forget that, it doesn't work. internal buttons are on the other side.
that's why this suit is confusing.

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other solution: the button nearest the edge is a link-button... the buttons above are non-functionals.


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like this:

but (with photoshop) like this: