Show us your British suits

[avedwards]

I've done a search and found that there's no thread specifically for vintage British suits, which is only natural considering that this forum is mostly dominated by Americans. Out of my three suits which I would consider vintage two are from the UK and one from Australia. I will be posting pictures of them soon.

It would be interesting to see how British suits differ from American ones. My guess (based on my observations) is that British suits are almost always fully lined and almost always made of heavy weight wool. I haven't yet seen a light weight British suit or let alone a linen suit. It appears that Brits were just incredibly tolerant to the heat back in the Golden Era.

So show us your British suits. By British I mean anything made in the British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland) or the Brish Empire.

EDIT: As well as suits, feel free to post sports coats as well as long as they are British.

[Chasseur]

A man after my own heart. All my vintage suits are British actually.
1954 Austin Reed, DB three piece
Charcoal pinstripes


1950s W Evans and Sons (I think label partially cut away), wideboy/bold look suit


Late 1950s or early 1960s Continental style Burton


1960s Hector Powe three piece
Heavy wool, charcoal with silver and red pinstripes

[avedwards]

A man after my own heart. All my vintage suits are British actually.

Thank you very much for your large contribution. Could you possibly post the labels of some of those? Particularly that Austin Reed 3pc DB. As for the Hector Powe suit, is there a date on it? I would have thought the lapels were too wide to be 60s, though I could be mistaken.

Also, could you tell us what the weights are? I'm trying to see if my hypothesis that nearly all British suits were made from heavy weight wool is correct.

[Lexybeast]

Does "British made but sold in Beverly Hills" count? (Cross posted from the sports coat thread, lot more pictures there.)

[Tomasso]

Does "British made but sold in Beverly Hills" count?

I would think so.....And BTW, Savile Row would probably be out of business if not for sales at their US trunk shows.

[avedwards]

Does "British made but sold in Beverly Hills" count?

Of course. I'm mainly trying to see how different British suits were from American ones.

[scotrace]

Actually there are a couple if excellent threads on Brit suits. I'll try and dig them up when I'm not mobile.

[avedwards]

Actually there are a couple if excellent threads on Brit suits. I'll try and dig them up when I'm not mobile.

Sorry if yet again I've started a thread which already exists. I did first do a search for all threads which included "British suits" in their titles.

[Cobden]

Oddly enough, I have three more American suits (both vintage and modern) than British, despite being British

[dragonaxe]

beautiful suits chasseur! I LOVE the hector powe 3 piece!! I'd die for a classy suit..how much money are we talking for a vintage 3 piece?