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    1920s suits

    The military to civilian fashion has always been rather cyclical. When uniforms began to become practical rather than merely pretty in the late 19th century, they largely copied Norfolk jackets, then evolved into the pleated top pockets with bellowed/patch hip pockets look that we now considered...
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    Show Us Your True Colors: Regimental, School, Club, Fraternity & other Prestige Ties

    Here are mine. The one on the left is my "Old Boys" tie, the one on the right is the tie for my re-enactment society, which I designed (the wrong way stripes are intentional, as the colours - though not the badge and the proportions - are the same as the regimental tie for the regiment we...
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    "A Gentleman Does Not Wear a Straw Hat in the Metropolis, sir"

    I think some people are missing an important word, with rather rigid connotations in pre WWII Britain: Gentlemen. It's not being used in the sense that one uses it on a toilet door, but to mean what would now be described as upper-middle to upper class (depending on ones definition). Plenty of...
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    RL Tweed Trousers---Close, But No Cigar

    The USA is the third largest under most definitions, with China fourth. Some resources have them the other way around, depending on how one assigns disputed territories and whether one includes overseas possessions, etc.
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    Luxire trousers

    Yes, it was me. Whilst my trousers are perfectly wearable, they haven't turned out anywhere near as well as Two Type's have. I'll send a pair of trousers next time.
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    Cole Phelps Ad Vice Suit, LA Noire

    If you mean this one: or this one I believe the name is a Hollywood jacket
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    Formal Wear Primer

    I appreciate the original post is from a couple of years ago now, but having recently been employed in a setting that involves knowledge of sub fusc (including policing it) and having looked into it's history, I may be able to clarify a few things. Sub fusc is technically one of a dark suit...
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    A Detachable Collar Question

    I'd usually go half an inch larger, though it varies by manufacturer (some include the additional half inch in their measurements, so you buy in you actual size. IIRC Van Heusan did this). Part of the problem is, of course, that very few of us have necks in exact half size measurements, that can...
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    From The Mail: SS Uniforms Cause Stir at Dambusters Event.

    Honestly, this sort of thing is one of the reasons I've moved from WWII to Great War. That and the fact that most events these days seem to ignore the fact that the war was the most horrific event in human history in favour of people dancing in daylight on a railway station platform to "In The...
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    Hat sizing revisited

    Newspaper under the sweatband is the only thing I can think of. Not an elegant option, but it'll stop it falling off...
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    Home starching stiff shirt collars

    What I do is use the powdered starch one can buy from Lakeland (not found it anywhere else) and follow the instructions on the side (make a paste with the starch, certain amount of boiling water mixed with a certain amount of cold water in a bowl with the starch, etc.) but double the amount of...
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    Vintage Workwear

    I think it could just be a way of showing more of the shirts...
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    Here's What Nearly Everybody on the Lounge is Looking For: Vintage Cream Flannels

    My size, almost exactly (33" waist, but I can survive an inch either way).
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    Widebrim's Ties: 1st Batch for 2013

    I'll take the left and right one, if no one has has bagsied them. Rather confused about what ties have and haven't gone from the previous posts, but if the right hand tie in post 5 (the blue with the geometric pattern) and right hand one in post 10 (the Gus Black fellow) are still available...
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    The Palm Beach suit thread

    You can never go wrong with grey flannels
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    1952 Dated DB jacket

    Drat. No shipping to the UK
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    what company will make a shirt non iron?

    As I usually keep my jacket on, I just iron the collar, cuffs and the front of shirts. If I'm wearing a waistcoat or jumper, I only iron the top half of the front too. I fail to see the point of doing any more...
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    Spear point collar shirts

    I have feeling it may have been a case of "take a pukka one to a factory and let them copy it" and pretty much made a modern shirt with the only differences being the things they noticed! Cuffs look far too wide too, and the tails are too short and start too low down, too
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    Spear point collar shirts

    I'm not sure the problem is the points per se - points on all my original British 30s shirts are about 3", which this looks like, and the spread is about right too. The problem is the rest of the collar - the neckband needs to be smaller (1/2"- 3/4" or there abouts), and the rear of the collar...
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    Driving in a suit or sport coat: Jacket off or on (and buttoned or un-buttoned)?

    Short distances I leave it on (but unbuttoned), long distances it comes off

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