3-piece MADNESS!!!

Jerekson · Feb 25, 2008

For anyone who has been looking into adding a nice 3-piece to their collection; I highly reccomend that you stop by eBay and do a quick search under "vintage suit" (men's clothing). Hundreds of 3-pieces. I'm not even joking when I say that 90% of the results will be the 3-piece.

I'm not sure what happened...if someone found a stock, if the custom tailors are having fun with the repros, or if we're actually making our impresison on the fashion industry, but all of a sudden these suits are indredibly popular among the bay.

Alot of them are from the 70's, but personally I love 70's suits when done right. And these ones are.

Check it out!

Ugarte · Feb 25, 2008

OKay, I just ran that search and got practically nothing. Specifically I got two ruffled tuxedo shirts, 5 suits all of which are two-piece 70's vintage (one is BRIGHT RED and purportedly German), and some Suit Skirt patterns by Simplicity. Oh, and two pair of vintage walking shorts.

I was really bummed out and it's all your fault sir.

I'm gonna' go get my pout on and shop for hats.

Good evening.

Mark
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EDIT: In all fairness, a search for "3-piece suit" in men's clothing did turn up a bounty. Not sure if they are my size though.

EDIT EDIT: What's with the waistcoat that buttons at the throat?

Jerekson · Feb 26, 2008

Well I'm dreadfuly sorry to hear about your misfortune. I don't know what happened, but this is what I did; I typed "vintage suit" in the search, and then narrowed the results by clicking "men's clothing". I got at least 50 3-pieces (I was exaggerating earlier).

Warbaby · Feb 26, 2008

I did several searches with different search terms and found plenty of vintage suits, both 2-piece and 3-piece. Also found not one but two 1920s men's wool swim suits (# & # if anyone is interested).

Warbaby · Feb 26, 2008

Hey...where did those numbers go? This happened once before in another thread when I put some dates in a post. Wassup wit dat?

The Wolf · Feb 26, 2008

I believe that you are not allowed to make links to active e-bay auctions.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

Warbaby · Feb 26, 2008

The Wolf said:
I believe that you are not allowed to make links to active e-bay auctions.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

They weren't links - just the auction numbers. I'll try them again and see what happens.

Live Ebay links/numbers are not allowed. -Feraud

Warbaby · Feb 26, 2008

Well, it worked that time. Wonder why they didn't appear the first time?

slicedbread · Feb 26, 2008

Jerekson said:
For anyone who has been looking into adding a nice 3-piece to their collection; I highly reccomend that you stop by eBay and do a quick search under "vintage suit" (men's clothing). Hundreds of 3-pieces. I'm not even joking when I say that 90% of the results will be the 3-piece.

I'm not sure what happened...if someone found a stock, if the custom tailors are having fun with the repros, or if we're actually making our impresison on the fashion industry, but all of a sudden these suits are indredibly popular among the bay.

Alot of them are from the 70's, but personally I love 70's suits when done right. And these ones are.

Check it out!

we're making our impression on the vintage fashion industry?

hehe....no, three pieces have always been avail on ebay

Jerekson · Feb 27, 2008

I was speaking from a modern custom tailor perspective...

slicedbread · Feb 27, 2008

you searched for vintage suits on ebay and drew conclusions as to the modern day industry?

Jerekson · Feb 27, 2008

A good majority of the ebay custom tailors will label thier suits under "vintage style".

Not really sure why we're dragging this out so much, but okay...

Baron Kurtz · Feb 27, 2008

Honestly, the eBay sellers have no interest in what FLoungers say, think, or do. 3-piece suits have always been around on eBay. Since i started using eBay they have been abundant - the badly fitting ones with the truly abysmally styled waistcoats made in terrible fabrics abound.

I see a lot of similar claims re: modern production hats (that they are changing their hat styles because of the FLounge) up in the hat section. I can't describe how ridiculous and pretentious these things sound.

bk

Warbaby · Feb 27, 2008

Warbaby said:
They weren't links - just the auction numbers. I'll try them again and see what happens.

Live Ebay links/numbers are not allowed. -Feraud

Thanks, Feraud - now I understand. I'd misunderstood the rule to mean no posting of eBay 'Live Auctions'. Duh. Won't happen again.

Feraud · Feb 27, 2008

Warbaby said:
Thanks, Feraud - now I understand. I'd misunderstood the rule to mean no posting of eBay 'Live Auctions'. Duh. Won't happen again.

No problem. Btw, you can post a link to an auction that has ended. Such links can be used as a reference for period pieces.

MudInYerEye · Feb 27, 2008

Baron Kurtz said:
I see a lot of similar claims re: modern production hats (that they are changing their hat styles because of the FLounge) up in the hat section. I can't describe how ridiculous and pretentious these things sound.

bk

Agreed.

Jerekson · Feb 28, 2008

Well, sorry I brought it up...

slicedbread · Feb 28, 2008

Jerekson said:
Well, sorry I brought it up...

My comments weren't out of malicious intent...Simply trying to pass on a bit of reality...

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