Show us their suits

[Tomasso]

Not sure about the db without trouser cuffs!

I'm sure; It looks wrong.

 

[Two Types]

deco Brit weirdos

I love the window and brickwork behind them.

 

[simonc]

I just wonder which one is the idiot brother to who?

 

[Tomasso]

Those were the days...when even the weirdos were well turned out.

 

[herringbonekid]

Brits at the beach:

 

[Two Types]

I like the bloke at the back on the right. He is wearing his summer hat, but that's his only concession to being at the beach. The three piece black suit and the wing collar still remain.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

L,

These all seem to be from the same group. Are these all from one photo album? The same chap (dark suit on the right, dark swimsuit leaning on chair back, light suit sitting at table under "way out" sign), appears in all of them.

 

[herringbonekid]

I like the bloke at the back on the right. He is wearing his summer hat, but that's his only concession to being at the beach. The three piece black suit and the wing collar still remain.

he looks like an older chap still sporting the Edwardian look in the late 30s... but what about the dude in the 3 piece peaked lapel ? his idea of beach wear is flipping his collar up !

Are these all from one photo album?

i presume so, but don't have any details regarding dates etc.

 

[Two Types]

Bela Lugosi, looks like sometime in the '30s. If anyone has more photos or info on this suit I'd love to know, I'd like to do a repro of it. View attachment 12414

I noticed that Robert Armstrong wore a very similar suit in 'King Kong':

 

[Two Types]

Dance Hall (1950)

Respectable, post-war, working class male fashion:

The only way to wear a flying jacket:

 

[Metatron]

Ha! I've never seen an Irvin worn like that before.
But no, it's not a good way to wear it imho.

A few more from the ever increasing number of digitised Romanian photos:









This photographer was clearly the Romanian Disfarmer.

 

[Fastuni]

Really inspirational about what to do with odd orphan jackets and trousers.

 

[Metatron]

That's one of the things I love about the 1930s, the way suit trousers were abused like a pair of jeans...

Most stylish people I've ever seen:


One from 1950 for a change


From the Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington website:
http://www.ee.washington.edu/about/centennial/looking_back/index.html

 

[Two Types]

I've got an astrakhan hat just like the one on the left - maybe that's the look for me next winter?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Cuzco, Peru 1938
I find the suit worn by the young man on the left to be rather interesting. It looks like it was converted from a military uniform.

 

[Two Types]

Those are some wide trousers.

 

[1mach1]

Those are some wide trousers.

Dare I say bell bottoms?

 

[Two Types]

Bank Holiday (1938):

Hugh Williams wearing a rather nice suit:

note the buttonhole on the pocket:

John Lodge:

Wally Patch:

 

[countryclubjoe]

Dare I say bell bottoms?

No, Bowling ball bottoms.. LOL

CCJ

 

[Two Types]

House of the Spaniard (1936):

A deliberately ridiculous suit:

belt back:

belt back: