NEW WAVE OF NOIR; Doing it how they did it(1920's-1940's).

[duggap]

Ok Hungry Tom, what kind of trouble have you gone and got yourself into. Hollow if you need some help.lol

 

[Lone_Ranger]

Well, if you're looking for "attitude" and a "vintage look", how about this? while it's not a suit, it most certainly is representative of what was seen a lot around here in the 1930's.

Looks like this guy's on his way back to the haller' to make some corn squeezin's.

 

[scotrace]

I didn't have a hat, but I got something close to the vintage photo I've been asking for. This was about a week ago.

 

[T Jones]

The Smiling Man

 

[Stanley Doble]

If you remove the tie and possibly the shirt collar, and make it a colored work shirt (blue or tan) then this is what my older relatives dressed like to go to town during the week.

This was a generation of farmers born in the 1890s to early 1900s and died out in the 1970s. This is what the typical farmer looked like when he went to town.

It worked like this. For working on the farm they would wear the overalls, work shirt, smock frock (loose denim jacket) and straw hat.

If they had to go to town to deliver the milk or pick up parts at the tractor dealership, they went in the house, took off the straw hat and denim jacket, and put on an old suit coat and old felt hat.

When they got home they took off the suit coat and felt hat , put on the smock and straw hat and went back to work.

On Saturday night they had their weekly bath and on Sunday morning dressed in their Sunday best for church. This was their best suit and hat, saved for special occasions like church, weddings, funerals and formal parties.

I suppose this was about how it worked in rural districts all over north America from the twenties through the fifties.

 

[tropicalbob]

Looks like this guy's on his way back to the haller' to make some corn squeezin's.

Kind of reminds me of when I hitch-hiked through the South many years ago.