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Doubtless made specifically for as part of the normal wardrobe requirements, will certainly not be a model in any shop.

I assume that all the detail including period style pockets (not to current pattern/presence) are planned? How much longer will this suit take, seven months now!

Black tie means ....black tie. It would be crass to wear white tie. You will simply look like a fool and be mistaken for the butler.

Black armband but there is absolutely no reason to go into purdah, life must carry on.

Thank you Edward, that is very helpful. I plan to go for as close to authenticity as I can for this one, that's part of the enjoyment I think. So, one inside pocket it will be, no back pocket and a button fly. Yes I'd rather hoped Two Types would have offered his thoughts given he is an...

I'm looking at getting a 1950s style suit made (decent MTM), but off the rack style, low to mid-price range that the man in the street would have, not MTM/bespoke. Whilst it is easy to judge style it is nigh impossible to pick up detailing which to me is import if it is to be a true 1950s suit...

These are excellent suits and capture the look well. I have never used Steed but their craftsmanship has always impressed me. Are your suits detail in the modern idiom or of the period? I am thinkimg of say inside pockets (breast and ticket only), trousers, flap fob pocket and one flapped back...

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Only one inside breast pocket so 1940s > early 1960s.

Does it feature detailing which Americans would expect and which were not commonplace for RTW suits in the UK market at the time - two in-breast pockets, two back pockets etc?

The large inner pocket is reminiscent of a 'poachers pocket' but this is certainly not the sort of suit that would be worn to the guns - legally or otherwise! Odd that someone should have something of that size to carry in the City.

By the forties, US trousers would have had two back pockets, British just one. However British would have had a cash pocket - similar to a watch pocket but bigger and with flap/button.

How many inside pockets in the coat? That might help date it - a single breast pocket (only) or and a ticket pocket might date it to the 1950s.

!960s so hardly vintage at all - just old. The style especially the flapped out-breast pocket fits with that.