Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

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These are the illustrations from Esquire February 1934.


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Top pic: That guy will get waited on before me even if he enters the store after me and I don't have a problem with that at all. Heck, I don't even work in the store and I'd wait on him if he asked me to get him something.

Fourth pic down: The guy wearing the "clothes for outside the city limits" is a hot mess. Each piece is neat, but combined there are just too many patterns and textures (and dark collars) going this way and that.

Last pic: The college kids (especially the one to the left) continue to do a more "casual" dress really well

And the rest of February 1934.

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Top pic: I'd also wait on the guy to the right if he walked into the store and asked even if I didn't work there.

Bottom pic: Did the guy to the right have his trousers made from material left over from the guy to the left's overcoat?

 

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Top pic: That guy will get waited on before me even if he enters the store after me and I don't have a problem with that at all. Heck, I don't even work in the store and I'd wait on him if he asked me to get him something.

Fourth pic down: The guy wearing the "clothes for outside the city limits" is a hot mess. Each piece is neat, but combined there are just too many patterns and textures (and dark collars) going this way and that.

Last pic: The college kids (especially the one to the left) continue to do a more "casual" dress really well




Top pic: I'd also wait on the guy to the right if he walked into the store and asked even if I didn't work there.

Bottom pic: Did the guy to the right have his trousers made from material left over from the guy to the left's overcoat?

Fortunately, the "hot mess" was not widely replicated elsewhere, then or now. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen the black and white striped dress shirt with black collar anywhere else. And for good reason!

A good example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts. Love corduroy and tweed, and love the idea of a wide wale waistcoat, but here the patterns created by the textures clash.

 

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These are the illustrations from the March 1934 issue of Esquire.

 

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And these are the rest of the March 1934 illustrations.

 

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Cute!

Thanks.

 

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These are the illustrations from the April 1934 issue of Esquire.

 

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Looking over this post, I realized that the number of illustrations looked fewer than I recalled. And, yes, I had omitted some.Though of more specialized interest, and a couple perhaps not the best illustrations, here are the balance along with a couple illustrations of selected ad art.

 

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These are the illustrations from Esquire's May 1934 issue.

 

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And the balance of the May 1934 issue.

And an ad photo as the models are turned out so well in mode of the era.

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These are the illustrations from Esquire's May 1934 issue.

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Top pic: Anyone know what the blue and white stripes running down the side of the leather Gladstone are about? Hard to get what they are on a leather bag?

Pic two, three, four and five: Men were not afraid to wear bold-patterned suits. Today (or five to ten years ago when men still wore suits), you rarely see/saw anything but solids or very subtle patterns or weaves that "read" solid at a distance.

And the balance of the May 1934 issue.


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And an ad photo as the models are turned out so well in mode of the era.
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Hurd's work in the Interwoven ad is outstanding here.

And agree with you on the photo ad, it looks like a scene out of a "Thin Man" movie.

 

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Top pic: Anyone know what the blue and white stripes running down the side of the leather Gladstone are about? Hard to get what they are on a leather bag?

Pic two, three, four and five: Men were not afraid to wear bold-patterned suits. Today (or five to ten years ago when men still wore suits), you rarely see/saw anything but solids or very subtle patterns or weaves that "read" solid at a distance.

I assumed the stripes were simply decorative, but there may be other significance.

In an era when suits of any kind are an exotic, the notion that a suit can be more casual is entirely foreign. But in this period country inspired suits were avant garde, popularized by those who had country clothes and wore them in town, such as The Prince of Wales.

Hurd's work in the Interwoven ad is outstanding here.

And agree with you on the photo ad, it looks like a scene out of a "Thin Man" movie.

Hurd's work at this time was still often very nice.

 

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These are the illustrations from Esquire, June 1934.

 

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These are Esquire's illustrations for July 1934.

 

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And this is the balance of illustrations from Esquire, July 1934.

 

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These are Esquire's illustrations for July 1934.


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The grey chalk seersucker in an outline check is outstanding. What a neat, atypical way to present seersucker.

 

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The grey chalk seersucker in an outline check is outstanding. What a neat, atypical way to present seersucker.

Yes. Sadly only the the most common forms survive.

 

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These are the illustrations from the August 1934 issue of Esquire.

I consider this ad art from illustrator Leslie Saalburg among his best.

 

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I liked the Saalburg illustration so well that I also archived a cropped version.

 

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These are the illustrations from Esquire September 1934.