Scans from ESQUIRE #1 - 1933

[Brian Sheridan]

These are all of the fashion pages from Esquire's first issue - Autumn 1933. Enjoy and feel free to comment. I'm sure we would all kill to have the item shown in our closets.

 

[Brian Sheridan]

 

[Fletch]

Thanks Brian. Fine stuff - Esky obviously started out with a sure sense of himself.

He did insist on the mustache as an indispensable of male style to a greater degree than reality at the time. Must have been that British officer influence - in the WW1 infantry at any rate they were almost compulsory.

And the illos tried very hard to associate style, along with class and financial security, with men of that cohort, born before the turn of the century in the bastions of Polite Society. Think Adolphe Menjou and Freddie March, not Gary Cooper or Cary Grant. Men who could bring off a homburg, a morning suit, or a dropped r without affect or pretense. Their dominance continued thru most of the '30s.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Thanks!

 

[Anthony Jordan]

Excellent! Thank you! Which to like the most - the 3-roll 2 white and blue stripe or the brown check three-piece with ticket pocket...

 

[Sefton]

The old Esquires are so wonderful. It's just refreshing to see fashions made to be worn ADULT MEN and not wispy twenty-somethings with perpetual five o'clock shadows. Thank you for the images!

 

[Orgetorix]

Excellent! Thank you! Which to like the most - the 3-roll 2 white and blue stripe or the brown check three-piece with ticket pocket...

The brown check three-piece is my favorite. Beautiful.

Anybody know about the shirt at bottom left on the formalwear page? I assume we're looking at the back of the shirt, and that it fastens in back. But what's the horizontal strap thing? Some sort of waist cincher?

 

[kevinkmaier]

Strange request

I'm working on a research project about Hemingway and 1930s culture; in the middle of the project, somebody swiped this volume of Esquire from the library. If you have this issue, and you wouldn't mind scanning an Houbigan Fougere Royale advertisement for aftershave, I'd be eternally grateful. It's in the Autumn 1933 edition of Esquire on p. 115. The title reads "a trick men learn in Paris"

Thanks for your consideration!

Cheers,

Kevin