Name That Suiting

[Midnight Blue]

Hi guys, I'm hoping to take advantage of my fellow Loungers' incredible wealth of knowledge once more to help me with my ongoing formalwear research. This time I've got one of Esquire's "fabric picture" pictorials where they assemble an illustration using actual swatches of fabric. The issue is from 1937 and depicts a warm-weather black tie kit. A very high res version (6MB) of the image can be found at http://www.blacktieguide.com/Vintage/WWBT/1934_Jul_Esq_p84.gif. At the time, (off)white jackets were being made of gabardine, duck, linen, tropical worsted and Palm Beach fabric among other materials. Any idea as to what was used for this illustration?

 

[dakotanorth]

Assuming the list of fabrics is inclusive, that is, this sample has to be one of those:
It's not gabardine, I doubt duck.
Linen- well, it depends on the weave, but I take it there was an assumed weave for linen at the time.
Best guess?
Tropical worsted. That's what it looks like to me, simply put.

 

[Barrelhouse]

Dakatanorth makes a very sound guesstimate with tropical worsted wool but looking at the high res picture, I would say linen. Either fabric would also be inline with a warm weather jacket which is the appropriate time for a white dinner jacket. Although I must confess I have never seen one in white linen.

 

[sproily]

It's hard to say from that picture but it could be fresco...

 

[dhermann1]

Is that what they call hopsack? I think it might be.