michael78
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The Bold Look was the defining look of American post-war clothing. It tended to wide shoulders and extra drape in the chest. You see it in movies of the late 40s and early 50s.Oh, thats great Patrick, i thought it was most probably 40s. Can you explain the term pre-bold look, never heard that before.
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Mike
Also, this style was imitated/copied in western Europe, including the UK, at that time. The tie worn by the OP is very much in keeping with it.The Bold Look...tended to wide shoulders and extra drape in the chest...in movies of the late 40s and early 50s.
Also, this style was imitated/copied in western Europe, including the UK, at that time. The tie worn by the OP is very much in keeping with it.
I'm not familiar with evidence for this style in the 1930s, but in the late 1940s/early 1950s it was certainly much less exaggerated on this side of the Atlantic. It came to be associated with the "spiv" or the "wide boy" - men who prospered during that period of austerity and were suspected of doing so by disreputable means.... You do see bold look in some British films, but it's not common. Chest drape was already a feature of some British suits from the 30s, but wide shoulders of the type in post-war American suits was not quite so evident. Neither was the longer length coat of that look.
I meant chest drape as a feature in 1930s suits. It was the stock-in-trade of Anderson & Sheppard - as the acknowledged originators of this feature (under Scholte).I'm not familiar with evidence for this style in the 1930s, but in the late 1940s/early 1950s it was certainly much less exaggerated on this side of the Atlantic. It came to be associated with the "spiv" or the "wide boy" - men who prospered during that period of austerity and were suspected of doing so by disreputable means.