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Matt, Both of those guys have their lapel boutonnieres on the right side. May have been a local hollywood tailor's style or some fashionable, cliquish thing. Or maybe someone just goofed. Scotrace, An actual suit from the 40s is not just the surface look, its also the guts and the...

Ok, mat, Ill take these to Nino and see if he can help us out for a source of pattern.

Yes Matt, its the Hollywood look, though that and the "Zoot Suit" are generally what I think of when I think of USA in the forties. Post a pic here of the type of suit silhouette you mean and Ill see if Nino knows where to find a pattern for it.

I used to do a lot of business with beckenstein. They moved and current management is not one Id do business with. They are rude and very money minded, even for merchants. Also, I rarely saw anything that was actually vintage there. If you want either actual vintage fabrics or wonderful...

devil and the deep Coop wears some nice clothes in this movie he made with Tellulah bankhead

The so called 1940s suit in america is basically the garrick anderson look. You might want to save yourself the trouble though. A 1940s suit would have large sleeves, heavily padded shoulders a short jacket and wide lapels. The british drape style of the period is much nicer. You might try...

Itd be a Yankees cap A med grey fedora or a dark green trillby like that guy in Foyles war wears.

U-571 jacket fan here. Interesting. I loved that jacket too. I had a replica made by sickafus sheepskins in PA with a different fur color (Snowcap vs. that golden fleece on the jacket in the movie.) The jacket is excellent quality but the skin is not as rotten as I wouldve liked. They also...