Baron Kurtz
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£9
Not from a thrift or charity shop, but £9 from a London vintage shop that regularly doesn't know what it's got when it comes to menswear. Tentatively dated to 1936-38, the shoulders are more padded than I would expect from earlier, and not so much as I would expect from later. No labels or union tags or anything to help with dating it.
As most of you would be able to tell from the front, it is a belted back.
Action back.
back is constructed of 2 pieces, like a normal suit jacket, but with pleats over which the belt is stitched. Different from many other belt backs i've seen where the skirt panel is a completely different panel from the rest of the rear.
Detail of the belt and pleat construction.
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Not from a thrift or charity shop, but £9 from a London vintage shop that regularly doesn't know what it's got when it comes to menswear. Tentatively dated to 1936-38, the shoulders are more padded than I would expect from earlier, and not so much as I would expect from later. No labels or union tags or anything to help with dating it.
![BeltBackJune2010-1.jpg](http://www.misskat0.madasafish.com/BeltBackJune2010-1.jpg)
As most of you would be able to tell from the front, it is a belted back.
![BeltBackJune2010-2.jpg](http://www.misskat0.madasafish.com/BeltBackJune2010-2.jpg)
Action back.
![BeltBackJune2010-3.jpg](http://www.misskat0.madasafish.com/BeltBackJune2010-3.jpg)
back is constructed of 2 pieces, like a normal suit jacket, but with pleats over which the belt is stitched. Different from many other belt backs i've seen where the skirt panel is a completely different panel from the rest of the rear.
![BeltBackJune2010-4.jpg](http://www.misskat0.madasafish.com/BeltBackJune2010-4.jpg)
Detail of the belt and pleat construction.
![BeltBackJune2010-5.jpg](http://www.misskat0.madasafish.com/BeltBackJune2010-5.jpg)
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