Vintage Workwear

BellyTank · Feb 11, 2010

You have all the best duds, Mose.
Where did you find this fine get-up?

B
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Doug C · Feb 11, 2010

:eusa_clap Hey Mose, I like that cord look you've got going there.. perfect for this time of year. I especially like that jacket. Jcrew had (or has?) one very similar to it called a sportcoat/hunting jacket that I've been wanting. Yours looks better and seems to have a bit of a boxier cut as opposed to the modern elongated form of the jcrew one.

Doug C

mattfink · Feb 11, 2010

Mysterious Mose said:
Chaplin in cords, size 36 trousers, 38 jacket:

Nice outfit Mose! All my pants look this way...I have no-assitol!

Mysterious Mose · Feb 11, 2010

Thanks gents, it's a Dutch "Beva" brand jacket and French "Hercules" trousers, just too slightly non-matching in colour an' wale width.
Here's a cool site from a French guy who takes his corduroy very, very serious... viewers discretion and all that:
http://grosvelours.ifrance.com/index.html#1

Gros velours means wide wale cord b.t.w.

@ Matt: You've probably heard about Hank Williams Sr. a.k.a. Gimly Ass. Around 120 lbs. he was so skinny his backpockets would overlap.

BellyTank · Feb 11, 2010

Hey!, nice Beva!

Speaking of gross and velours,
it's all coming back to me now-

http://lelaboureur.se/main.php
...this is the Swedish agent for the French company.

Manchester is what they call cord.

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Mysterious Mose · Feb 11, 2010

Yup, Manchester. Same here.

BellyTank · Feb 11, 2010

"Fløjl" i Danmark men "Manchester" i Sverige.
Men Norge?

B
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Mysterious Mose · Feb 11, 2010

Kordfløyel, oftewel Korderoy. 't Is best goed te lezen, dat Zweeds.

sproily · Feb 11, 2010

BellyTank said:
"Fløjl" i Danmark men "Manchester" i Sverige.
Men Norge?

B
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In Finnish it's vakosametti, which roughly means "groove velvet"

Mysterious Mose · Feb 11, 2010

Czech- manšestr
German- Kordsamt
English- corduroy
Spanish- la pana
Spanish- pana
Estonian-- palk- ; palkteed ehitama, pesusamet ; pesusamet-
Estonian- palk- ; palkteed ehitama
Estonian- pesusamet ; pesusamet-
Basque- pana
Finnish- vakosametti
Finnish- korderoi
Finnish- tukkitie
Croatian- prugasti baršun
Croatian- velvet
Hungarian- kordbársony
Norwegian- kordfløyel
Serbian- prugasti baršun
Serbian- rebrasti somot

Bye now, gone shopping.

BellyTank · Feb 13, 2010

sproily said:
In Finnish it's vakosametti, which roughly means "groove velvet"

Sounds very '70s.

Shake it!
Don't break it!

B
T

McFarlaneNYC · Feb 13, 2010

Some great "workwear" photos:

Charlie

jetgirl · Feb 13, 2010

oooo, those are great photos. Are they from a Life Magazine site?

mike · Feb 13, 2010

There's a woman posting in this thread.

That brings to mind this question: are their many women into this stuff today? Are there examples of original or repro female-intended work wear items? Any online place collecting photos of ladies at work? Obviously, the WW2-era had many women join the workforce, but what about before that from the turn of the century through the 30's?

I suppose it's not all that different, the female down-on-her-luck traveler, but still worth mentioning...

wild%20boys%20of%20the%20road%20still.jpg

mothfighter · Feb 14, 2010

Mysterious Mose said:
Thanks gents, it's a Dutch "Beva" brand jacket and French "Hercules" trousers, just too slightly non-matching in colour an' wale width.

Nice exercise on the tight cord Mose!

Great find, that Beva jacket, looks like the gear the
municipal gardeners used to wear around here,
before they changed to the Fluorescent orange look.

BTW, once read this comment on Hank Sr's physique:
"He was so skinny, when he walked by his ass rattled
like a sack of carpenters tools"

Mysterious Mose · Feb 14, 2010

mothfighter said:
Nice exercise on the tight cord Mose!

Great find, that Beva jacket, looks like the gear the
municipal gardeners used to wear around here,
before they changed to the Fluorescent orange look.

BTW, once read this comment on Hank Sr's physique:
"He was so skinny, when he walked by his ass rattled
like a sack of carpenters tools"

Schuttersveld Manchester corduroy. It's like a Dutch denim/tweed.
We need to reclaim the Klettervesten from the old lesbians !!!

mothfighter · Feb 15, 2010

Mysterious Mose said:
Schuttersveld Manchester corduroy. It's like a Dutch denim/tweed.
We need to reclaim the Klettervesten from the old lesbians !!!

Gimme back my rib !!!

mothfighter · Feb 15, 2010

Cord again

Came across this one today. (3rd from top):

http://panagorias.panagorias.com/?month=200911

It says Schuttersveld, Made in Britain?,

Probably confused by the "Manchester" somewhere on the tag?
Mostly seen the black ones, but their brown is beautiful!

Mysterious Mose · Feb 15, 2010

Schuttersveld Manchester was exported worldwide. So it could very well be imported Schuttersveld cloth in a British jacket.

Mysterious Mose · Feb 18, 2010

She said 'super cute' in the workwear thread...

Jack Delano made beautiful photos of railroad workerettes:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/

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