1936 Summer Suits

[Marc Chevalier]

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Inspired by Cookie's shoe photo collection, I grabbed these images off of a recently ended eBay auction of a 1936 style book. Didn't even have to buy the thing :eusa_clap Just a wee bit o' Photoshop magic, and they're good to go.


Have fun!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Notice some of the solid colors in the shirts (emerald green, anyone?) and the solid cream or white neckties. How did they get away with it? Why can't most of us get away with it as well?

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[Marc Chevalier]

Separated at birth?

 

[Benny Holiday]

I love those colour pictures. Unfortunately, most of my good shirts have gotten old and frayed and have had to be thrown out, but I had some great colours to wear with my vintage ties and suits, such as pale yellow, medium green and magenta. I've recently replaced a couple of shirts courtesy of Indy Magnoli, but I'd still like to get some more when the $ becomes available. (I ain't holdin' my breath, though!)

Those are great pics, Marc. Thanks for sharing them, you always have the best stuff to show us! And yeah, the suit in the catalogue pic is a brother to your own Beltback Treasure.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I love those colour pictures. Unfortunately, most of my good shirts have gotten old and frayed and have had to be thrown out, but I had some great colours to wear with my vintage ties and suits, such as pale yellow, medium green and magenta. I've recently replaced a couple of shirts courtesy of Indy Magnoli, but I'd still like to get some more when the $ becomes available. (I ain't holdin' my breath, though!)

Those are great pics, Marc.

Thanks as always, Benny! It's great to know that you dig the pics.


For guys who really like the golden era look, our weakest link is dress shirts. The cotton ones with authentic-looking long, downward pointed collars are devilishly hard to find. No one is mass producing them! However ...


I predict that the '30s pointed collar (or something pretty close to it) will make a comeback within the next two or three years. Why? Because we've already had at least five years of the high and wide collar. That cycle is long in the tooth and nearing its end. Time for the shirt industry to convince people to buy entirely new duds ... and the '30s long collar is as far away from the high and wide collar as you can get. Long overdue for a revival, too.


Remember, folks, you heard it here first. I've been right in my predictions before ...

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[Feraud]

I predict that the '30s pointed collar (or something pretty close to it) will make a comeback within the next two or three years. Why? Because we've already had at least five years of the high and wide collar. That cycle is long in the tooth and nearing its end. Time for the shirt industry to convince people to buy entirely new duds ... and the '30s long collar is as far away from the high and wide collar as you can get. Long overdue for a revival, too.


Remember, folks, you heard it here first. I've been right in my predictions before ...

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Oh I hope you are right. I sooo like the 30s style collar!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I'm 90% sure of it.

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[Benny Holiday]

You're observations are always astute Marc, my money's on your prediction to come to pass. Sooner rather than later, I hope! That'd be one instance where I'll be glad Australia copies the U.S. trends so closely!

 

[cookie]

My Fave

The tweed jacket with the specs and the lime shirt oo la la!

MC are you predicting that "the attack of the spread collars" is over?

 

[slicedbread]

I love patterned suits!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for posting these up, Marc...Great for cataloguing purposes

 

[cookie]

Boaters

If you went to a private school in Sydney in the 60s chances were, like me, you wore a boater. Only one or two schools wear them now:cry: .

They were a bugger of a thing to protect so we used to cover them in clear Fibreglass! Made them a lot heavier but it stoped the expense of getting them smashed up:eusa_clap .

One hilarious memory of mine is throwing a punch at some mate who was joshing me badly on the bus and forgetting to move the boater out of the way with the swing. You guessed it ... just like a Three Stooges scene where I bash the top straight out of it lol ....ah the good old days...

How many FLers have similar tales???? How many have worn a boater?

 

[Rooster]

Thanks for the pics Marc. With your help I'm slowly learning about vintage clothes.:eusa_clap

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

I'm particularly fond of that second one, the model no. 101.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

I WANT that Ladies suit Marc.....

go find it for me!

 

[Dagwood]

Thank you so much for posting these pictures Marc! They are truly inspirational.

Now if I could only find Model 104's suit...

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

105 and 121 are sporting moderate spread collars!

Oh and Marc, yours looks better than the illustration... except of course for those damn buttons. I like the higher gorge on yours better. Otherwise though, they're nearly identical.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Oh and Marc, yours looks better than the illustration... except of course for those damn buttons. I like the higher gorge on yours better. Otherwise though, they're nearly identical.

Thanks! Luckily, L.A. has a wonderful old fabric store (named "International Silks and Woolens" -- Cary Grant shopped there!) which has thousands of old and new buttons. I picked up a set of grey bakelite buttons that look just right with the suit. Will post photos soon.

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[Feraud]

Just look at those shirt colors and patterns! :eusa_clap
This is style that inspires me.

 

[Alan Eardley]

Long pointed collar

Oh I hope you are right. I sooo like the 30s style collar!

I'm currently working in China where most of the outsourced mass-production is done and I can TELL you that Marc is correct in his prediction...

Alan