1920s suits

herringbonekid · Dec 17, 2013

DamianM said:
If Im not wrong those are high Brace trousers.

not wrong:

DamianM · Dec 17, 2013

I have these images in my archive.

He has plenty more But hardly lists anything.

herringbonekid · Dec 17, 2013

Ivor Novello.

Mr. Purple · Dec 18, 2013

Delicious!

Two Types · Dec 19, 2013

I know i should be commenting on the suit fabric, but I love that tie. Dark spots on a light background - splendid.

herringbonekid · Dec 19, 2013

more Ivor Novello, from 'Downhill' 1927:

Two Types · Dec 19, 2013

Here's a selection of men's suits from the Spring/Summer 1926 Eaton's Catalogue (Eaton's was a Canadian mail order company):

These include a suit in a fancy fabric known as a 'Radio Weave' and examples of patch pocket jackets with a belt back:

They are still offering the 'novelty suits' with unusual button arrangements:

Another 'radio weave' suit:

These suits "are not suitable for a man of mature age":

Two Types · Dec 19, 2013

more from 1926:

The waistcoat has three pockets rather than four or two:

HadleyH · Dec 20, 2013

1923: Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Christy Walsh.....

Babe wearing a 1960s slim tie????? :eeek:

HadleyH · Dec 20, 2013

1924: George Sisler, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb

Orgetorix · Dec 20, 2013

Interesting how both Sisler and Cobb's jackets have dual breast pockets. And Walsh in a DB with notch lapel, proving they weren't invented in the '80s.

volvomeister13 · Jan 5, 2014

I know this is a very amateur questions, but when did front darts first start appearing on suit jackets? Did most 1920s suits have them?

herringbonekid · Jan 5, 2014

volvomeister13 said:
I know this is a very amateur questions, but when did front darts first start appearing on suit jackets? Did most 1920s suits have them?

this is basically the transitional period between the Victorian 'sack' jacket and the more suppressed-waist 1920s jacket.
by the late teens most of the 'fashion forward' companies would have been going for the trimmer waist with front darts, but there still would have been plenty of 'conservative' suit jackets available during the first half of the 20s which still resembled the un-front-darted sack style. the change didn't happen overnight, but roughly mid to late teens, with some spill into the 20s.

Two Types · Jan 5, 2014

Here's my great uncle Jack in the 1920s:

(everyone called him Jack, at his funeral they discovered his real name was Frosswar!!)

herringbonekid · Jan 6, 2014

ah, good old Frossie ! sporting that early-mid 20s cutaway we've seen before. similar anyway, but not as extreme as this one:

Two Types · Jan 6, 2014

Uncle jack's trousers really are very short.

I must try to find some more photos of him from that period.

Barmey · Jan 6, 2014

Some interesting jackets here. Not sure of the exact date but the caption says 1920s cyclists photographed around Barming Heath, Maidstone, Kent, England

Two Types · Jan 7, 2014

I like the roadsign in the first picture: turn right for Chilham, turn left for 'Kent Mental Hospital'.

herringbonekid · Jan 7, 2014

centre partings are GO.

1920, Yale.

herringbonekid · Jan 7, 2014

Jack Trevor, 1928-9:

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