What year is this???

[Art Fawcett]

I collect everthing I can get my hands on to further my knowledge about hats et al. Here is a link to an advertisement that was issued in ???
Any guesses out there?

http://www.vintagesilhouettes.com/hatscan1.htm

I'm not sure I posted this correctly, but here goes

 

[Andykev]

My guess

It is 1931. No inside info. I am guessing by the overall compilation of the gentlemen. But the crowns look short. But I will stick with my guess.

 

[Brad Bowers]

I'm going to go the other direction and guess 1950. Just the look of some of the styles leads me thataway.

Brad Bowers

 

[Andykev]

Guess again

I may be a tad over....notice the man in the bottom with the monicle...those were a bit earlier...and the gaunt look of the faces.....I DON't Get another guess, but if I did it would be .......NOT FAIR I'll shut up!

 

[Dalexs]

Based on the drawing style I'd have to say probably 1948.
It just kinda has that "leave it to beaver" look. But not quite that recent.

 

[Imahomer]

Neat. My guess? I'm way too weak in this area to throw one out there, but I'll tip my hat to Art for providing this. Good luck to those who are guessing.

 

[Fedora]

Doesn't the chap in the lower left corner look remarkably like FDR? My guess is late 40's. regards, Fedora

 

[Sergei]

I agree with Andykeyv. This style is definitely in the 30's. No, I didn't grow up in the 30's. However, I had a next door neighbor when I was kid growing up on a farm, that gifted me old magazines. Most of the magazines were like Life, Popular Mechanics, Look, Popular Science, etc. They were all pre-WWII up to like 1942. I remember spending a lot of boring summer afternoons reading through all those magazines. The one thing that amazed me were all the ads that were hand drawn. So that picture that Art posted immediately made me remember those summer afternoons.

Also, I got a lot of old board games from this neighbor. I remember the monopoly set was also using that kind of style of drawing.

Below is sample of an art ad from the fifties. Now, see how different the style changed from the thirties to the 50's.

30's!

 

[Kwebs]

I'm going to through my 2 cents in and guess 1940's.

Dave

 

[Art Fawcett]

Gentlemen..ALL good guesses but Andy, you were within spitting distance and Sergei you were right there also. The answer is on the link on the first post. Thanks guys, this was fun and i hope informative

 

[Andykev]

Wow!

I got within one year on my guess. I really was stumped with the man with the monicle...that was tricky. I think this kind of history/trivia/game stuff is real fun.

I know you have literally 100's if not 1000's of books on vintage things. Art, why not show your book on how men used to order a suit, in the Suit section. Those big full size things I saw when you were up in Crockett.

You could even post a pic of an actual item (gee whats in your vault?)!!!

Hey guys, did you know Art has a vault?