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This is part 1 of 2 of Esquire, June 1949.
I’m sorry; I love all the hats. And I’d buy the entire Cat-Cay Collection if I looked like that in it.
Agreed! Some good looking straws!
I'm not particularly knowledgeable concerning dress wear, but I've noted that while a comparatively narrow number of items are prescribed by a form, the subtle detail of each can actually be quite varied.
Pleated shirts seemed a fairly common variant, and picque not as uncommon as you (And I!) might suspect -
https://www.acornfabrics.com/blog/what-is-pique-fabric/
LOL. I can’t help but admire the chutzpah of the advertising executive who dreamed up the idea of marketing a line of high end, elegant clothing as “Pirate Bold.” Bravo!
Sorry, I wasn’t clear - it was the combination, a pique shirt with pleats, that I had not encountered before.
Yeah. It is starting to unravel. Too much emphasis on (by our modern tastes) bad photography.
At least some reasonably good illustrations returned in September '49 versus August '49's mess of an issue.
Love the Oct. 49 coats, particularly the return of dramatic peak lapels.
The metallic palladium shirts and ties also look neat and capture the modernist spirit of the era.
The Sept. 49 choice of corduroy for a trenchcoat horrifies me. Too much bad 70's vibes and just overall not a good fabric for a full coat.