Show us their suits

[Two Types]

Cheers: I just press 'print screen' then paste into photoshop. That allows me to correct the images when necessary.

 

[Metatron]

Good shots. Those are some tiny tie knots. They look far more elegant than large knots in my opinion.
Can't seem to get into double breasted suits though... [huh]

 

[earl]

Good shots. Those are some tiny tie knots. They look far more elegant than large knots in my opinion.
Can't seem to get into double breasted suits though... [huh]

For years, did the small knot. Now, depending on the tie, prefer larger knots. Agree about double-breasted suit jackets, though do like and own double-breasted top coats. Earl

 

[Two Types]

Here's a selection of outfits from the 1935 film 'Death Drives Through':

knitwear:

Plain three Piece suit:

Remember the 'rule' about never wear a wing collar with a dinner jacket? Well, these chaps don't:

plain double breasted

 

[Two Types]

more from 'Death Drives Through':

pin strip double breasted

checked suit:

driving goggles

the suit on the right is interesting: it looks like an oatmeal coloured wool with pleated and buttoned pockets:

here is it again:

the one on the right is nice - light coloured check suit with pleated pockets.

 

[Fastuni]

Note how low the Homburg sits and the quite short jacket.

Remember the 'rule' about never wear a wing collar with a dinner jacket? Well, these chaps don't:

I guess you just forgot to type DB. This "rule" only pertains to DB dinner jackets. According to German fashion sage "Baron von Eelking" it was in 1936, in Garmisch, Bavaria during the Winter Olympics, that the DB Tux was first worn with marcella lay-down collar, which has become the "norm" for DB tux. But German illustrations from 1938 still show wing collar with DB tux. Later on it is the lay-down collar.

 

[Two Types]

I thought the 'rule' applied to both SB & DB. it shows how much notice I take! Not that it matters because rules are only there to be broken. I think they look good.

 

[Fastuni]

Apropos I just a few days found a German 1930's Marcella lay-down collar shirt (with collar sewed on)... they are so damn hard to find and it even fits.

BTW, notice that on the very last photo you posted, the guy to the left is wearing his hat backwards? Is there a reason to this?

 

[Two Types]

I hadn't noticed the backwards hat. I don't think there's any reason for it. Personal taste maybe?

 

[Two Types]

Also from 'Death Drives Through':

There is a scene in a laundry in which a missing man is located when the woman in the laundry recognises the number of the shirt in the back of the collar as being the number from his shirt.

I'm assuming the number was put into a shirt and collar by the laundry so that they could be reunited after being laundered?

 

[Hal]

Also from 'Death Drives Through':

There is a scene in a laundry in which a missing man is located when the woman in the laundry recognises the number of the shirt in the back of the collar as being the number from his shirt...I'm assuming the number was put into a shirt and collar by the laundry so that they could be reunited after being laundered?

That was indeed the practice of laundries in the UK until the 1960s at least.

 

[Dinerman]

From the TV show "Campion". Belt-back with no lapels.

 

[Fastuni]

Dinerman, what year is that set in?

 

[Dinerman]

Depending on the particular episode, the series is set in the late '30s-ish.

 

[Fastuni]

Thanks - as far as I can tell these sportcoats with no lapels entered Europe in 1938. I wonder what the earliest US example for this fashion would be.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

And in the US. Almost all American vintage is covered in these marks. Trousers usually on the pocketbags.

That was indeed the practice of laundries in the UK until the 1960s at least.

When was that Cary Grant film in which he wears one?

Thanks - as far as I can tell these sportcoats with no lapels entered Europe in 1938. I wonder what the earliest US example for this fashion would be.

 

[Fastuni]

1941 - The Philadelphia Story.

 

[Two Types]

'The Ware Case' (1938)

There are some treats in this one:

I'll start with John Laurie wearing a belt back jacket.

Since he was playing a gamekeeper, I expected this to be a Norfolk jacket, but the front view changed that impression:

It's interesting to see him wearing a button down collar:

For a court appearance he wears an older looking suit:

And Edward Rigby wears a nicely patterned zip-up jumper:

 

[Two Types]

The Ware Case:
Clive Brook always wears his double breasted jackets buttoned on the bottom button:

It's interesting to see the gap width difference between the collar and the lapel peak is rather small:

The whole story revolves around Brook's spendthrift nature, so it's appropriate to see him being fitted for his latest sports jacket:

 

[Two Types]

The Ware Case (again)

Barry K. Barnes wears a very nice flecked suit:

He also wears an example of the lesser-spotted British belt-back ...

... which he combines (naturally) with white flannels and an interesting sports-shirt:

You can see how it buttons across from left to right, fixing underneath the collar on the right.

Even more interesting is Clive Brook's sports wear:

It's a blouson, button-up, collarless white sports jacket with a knitted waist: