The 1920 JAZZ SUIT

[Orgetorix]

This picture with the guy standing there in the suit's jacket and his boxers while displaying the trousers just struck me as really funny. lol lol lol

 

[Marc Chevalier]

This picture with the guy standing there in the suit's jacket and his boxers while displaying the trousers just struck me as really funny. lol lol lol

It is funny. You'll enjoy the thread that it's from, too: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=11577&highlight=Nathan



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[Fletch]

What an era! Then in 1929 it all went pear shaped liked the 1930s did.

I think I've just found the title for my next book...
And Then Things Got All Pear-Shaped: A Sartorial History of the 1930s.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

And here's that book's cover photo:


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[Jay]

Recycled from earlier posts, here are photos of vintage early 1920s "jazz" suits. Compare their cuts and silhouettes to those in Matt Deckard's catalog page at bottom:

I wish I could find a suit that had a pattern like that. And without the skinny trousers. My legs look skinny enough as it is.

 

[cookie]

Fletch's new Book

Fletch you are a funny guy - keep 'em comin'!.

 

[Dinerman]

Do you like the double breasted on the right with the narrow, high buttoning?

 

[Charlie Noodles]

I know someone with a 1920s party coming up. I might get something like this.

 

[BellyTank]

The Suit, or the Squirting Flower..?
Good luck finding a suit like that.


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[Charlie Noodles]

The suit. The party is almost a solid year away so I figure I could have something made.

 

[Slim Portly]

Other than the wide sleeve cuffs, I kinda like it. In sort of a "so ugly only its mother could love it" way.

 

[Warbaby]

It's a truly goofy suit. I love it. I'd wear it - probably with a pair of Jolly Walkers.

 

[Feraud]

Is the fellow on the left in this picture wearing a Jazz suit?

 

[dhermann1]

That looks like a frock coat to me. From the caption, I wonder if that's Charlie Ebbetts, of OLDE Brooklyn Dodgers fame. Wonder if the shot has something to do with breaking ground on Ebbetts Field?
Yeah, that's Charlie Ebbetts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charles_H._Ebbets_Sr.,_owner_of_Brooklyn_Dodgers,_circa_1915.jpg
According to this Wikipedia article, one side of Ebbets Field was on McKeever Place, which makes me wonder if Charlie bought the property from them.
Anyhow, that's all off topic.
I think it's a frock coat. Or a cutaway. I don't really know the difference.

 

[Bird's One View]

The fellow on the left in that picture, whom dhermann1 has identified as Charlie Ebbets, is wearing a morning coat.

(The skirts of a frock coat are not cut away.)

 

[dhermann1]

Yeah, that's what I meant.

 

[Feraud]

The collar/sleeve treatment is interesting.
I have seen this on Victorian outfits and later on 60s(?) era tuxedos.
The more things change..

 

[Dayonfire]

Vintage Who?

Call me crazy, but doesn't this look like something the classic Doctor Who would have stumbled out of the TARDIS wearing?

"Doctor...what, the?"

"What? Don't you like it?" Sly smile. "I'm 730 years old and I'm wearing the shortest fashion in history."

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I have to say, I really dig it. I would wear it out to special funky dark bars where I write in the corners and people watch. Nice, ugly combination of 19th Century frock coat, mixed with Edwardian ginger.

 

[Dayonfire]

...and shaken with vodka and absinthe.

 

[Dayonfire]

I actually bought a brown, herringbone frock coat from Wahmaker, the Old West reinactment clothiers that I wear in the fall. It's too light a coat, but it actually looks pretty cool.

Okay, tired of talking to myself.