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Suits - Pre 1920

Dostioffsky

One of the Regulars
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the Netherlands
Otto Dix

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Dostioffsky

One of the Regulars
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the Netherlands
The button stance and cutaway front remind me a lot of that trimmed jacket of mine. But I just looked up his year of birth, which is 1891, so it's probably a bit later. He looks about the same age on this picture, which apparently is from 1925-26:

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What's quite interesting is that in his paintings suit jackets are often depicted with the buttons equally close together. These below are actually all from 1922-23, so the date in the book might well be right!

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Papperskatt

Practically Family
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Sweden
I didn't get much work done today after I realised that the museum that I've just started working in have a large digital photographic archive. :rolleyes:

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I wonder if we have any actual suits stored somewhere... shhhhhhhh
 
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Two Types

I'll Lock Up
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Elsewhere on the FL we have discussed the failure of film makers to accurately costume male characters for the period of the film. Here's a good example from the 1945 film 'They Were Sisters'. The film opens in 1919 however the men simply wear 1940s suits with straw boaters and stiff collars to give it a period feel:
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nowhere is the 1940s cut more obvious than in the shoulders of this suit:
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Papperskatt

Practically Family
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Nice jazz suit in the first pic! And I agree, the outfit on the left in the second picture is just about perfect.
 

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