Beautiful '30s Suit FABRICS

[MrBern]

Yeah, well, it never gets cold enough to wear long johns in L.A. ... and the suit was plenty heavy as it is.

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I've worn my 18oz wool trousers in the NYC summer.

Actually some office buildings are freezing in th summer as the airconditioning cranks in the summer. All the gals keep sweaters handy.

 

[Tomasso]

American Silk is still around.

I used them for drapery and upholstery fabric just last year. As I was perusing their swatch books I'd often think, "That would make a nice suit."

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I've worn my 18oz wool trousers in the NYC summer.

Sandpapery wool trousers + long johns = my idea of a bad day.

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[Marc Chevalier]

More 1930s woolens:

 

[AlanC]

Since you opened it up to other decades, here's a 1946 English made overcoat for J Press:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

J. Press! Pricey haberdasher to Yale and Harvard preppies.

Thanks for the pic!!

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[Baron Kurtz]

I'm hoping for Baron Kurtz to appear with an armful ...

Armfuls to be posted at weekend. I'm still fondling the suits i 'arven't seen for 8 months. Some nice fabrics amongst them - one very cool diagonal stripe tweed that i forgot i had, and a crazy crazy donegal tweed from the early 40s.

Will be vintage shopping in notting hill & chelsea tomorrow, so fingers crossed for some new additions!

By the way, for anyone into hats that can get into london - there is a veritable swathe of deadstock german/austrian summer weight fedoras in the Cheshire street branch of Beyond Retro. I picked up a beautiful brown 30s number and will be going back for a light green one. All for 18 squid a pop and lower! Seemed to be some larger sizes amongst them, too.


AND going Waayaaaaayyyyyy off topic there is a complete shearling-lined WWII flying suit (looks USAF) - jacket, trousers, hat - in the same store.

fabric to come soon . . .

bk

 

[Vintage Betty]

Quick post. Mr. Chevalier, this post is for you! I don't have time to fuss with the mannequin or the outfits, so I just dragged these out for quick pics. Enjoy!

Vintage Betty

 

[Vintage Betty]

And more pics:

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Dropped in past Bertie Wooster this afternoon and he just happened to have a small tweed suit (23-3-54) he was about to pack up and ship to Japan. I need to alter the trousers and have the suit cleaned, but if it wasn't for the date tag this suit could easily have been made any time between 1930 and 1960. I couldn't resist it. Here's the fabric; a cool double windowpane (blue/white) on top of a light brown tweed:

And the 3-button notch lapel jacket fits great:

p.s. The hat is the German lightfelt one i got yesterday.

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

And the 3-button notch lapel jacket fits great:

p.s. The hat is the German lightfelt one i got yesterday.

bk

except the arms, obviously.

bk

 

[herringbonekid]

very nice fabric BK.

 

[herringbonekid]

brown english suit fabrics of the 30s and 40s...

 

[Jovan]

Vintage Betty: All that's missing is Kim Novak's suit from Vertigo.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

hbk, that brown herringbone is great. I have a blue American waistcoat that's pretty much dentical, even down to the pinstripes (blue, not brown, though).

How wide is the herringbone?

bk

 

[herringbonekid]

just under 3 quarters of an inch stripe to stripe.

alternating pinstripe herringbone is the bees knees as far as i'm concerned.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

almost exactly the dimensions of the HB on my waistcoat. Wish i had the rest of that suit.

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

To add to hbk's brown pinstripeshere's a brown multi-(fancy)-stripe from an american suit dated 1946:

And a blue early 1940s American herringbone (not of waistcoat fame):

bk

 

[herringbonekid]

that top one's ringing my bell.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

though it might . . . There's a jacket in just about your size in a similar fabric in Beyond Retro near brick lane.

here's the plaids/checks. The top two maybe a little run-of-the-mill, but nice all the same. Glenurquhart with overchecks:

The last i find super-cool. British from probably 1930s:

bk