The Way They Wore: Images from the Past

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Old British Dudes

 

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George Hamilton

Extended shoulder:

Tweed, button-downs, and rep striped tie

Cream DB suit

Look at the angularity of this suit. Flapped chest pocket, padded shoulder, long coat, flared pants. Also love the tassel loaferrs

With Douglas Hayward in 1972

Brooksy two-button cuff with single monks

One of my favorite combos: brown sport coat, black tie, grey trousers, black shoes. Very conservative and good.

Polo coat. Notice the dropped buttoning point. Important on a polo coat!

Very LL looking tweed

 

[yorkshire pud]

James Hendrix esq. In something approaching CM 😂

 

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Ivy Style

Sport coats with chinos, ties, and loaferse. Note the white socks.

More white socks.

White socks with a suit! Dangerous territory.

Madras, tweed, and blazers

White bucks pop up often in old photos of Ivy campuses.

Blazer with white bucks

White ODCBD and tweed, presumably brown. I feel like white shirts have become semi-verboten since Manton's thread, but I really like white OCBDs and think they can be worn in a wider range of outfits than white dress shirts.

 

[ladislav.jancik]

Talking about white socks reminds me of one of my favorite photos of Paul Newman. I particularly like the contrast between Newman's casual appearance and the rest of the men's audience dressed in suits and ties.

 

[Old Red]

Another thread to read through.

<https://www.styleforum.net/threads/how-to-wear-a-white-shirt.309772/>

 

[aj805]

I really like this thread. These kinds of images of dress from a time when people were dressed as rule are what got me into CM. You can go on shorpy and see all walks of life--blue collar workers, farmers, college kids, etc.--all wearing real clothes well, even if they've got a couple snags or tears.

The celebrities that fill these pages look good as well, but what's great is that it was just their clothes, not a pedantic hobby.

 

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Johnny Carson in 1967 wearing a mock neck, side-zips, and SBPL suit. Very Camoshita-esque

 

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Reagan is often described as the last well dressed American President, but I think that title belongs to George HW Bush. He was not as well dressed as Reagan, but he was better than all the Presidents that came after him.

GOATs together

Al Hirschfeld with his daughter Nina, whose name he famously worked into his drawings, 1961. Polo looks really nice and the sort of thing that I think can help push a basic summer outfit away from business casual. Great collar and neckline.

Gregory Peck in single monks. I'm increasingly warming up to this style.

In 1948, this 82-year-old man traversed a tightrope over South Boulder Creek in Colorado. I really like this silhouette -- wide trousers with high rise paired with a very slim shirt. Today, this outfit would be considered feminine or fashion-forward on a man, but it plays into this porous border between womenswear and menswear right now that I think is inspiring.

Satchel Paige in a DB suit

Classic style doesn't have to be about tailoring. Woodie Gutherie often performed in workwear to signal his allegiance with working-class people. Many of the outfits are still relevant today, a testament that "timeless" style is not always about tailoring. Here, Gutherie is wearing an outfit that you can still buy today from Inis Meain and RRL.

Bobby Fischer lived in a rundown apartment building in NYC and spent much of his chess winnings on bespoke clothes and shoes.

 

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Japan 1950s

Sometimes I want things like a Grand Seiko and Sailor pen because I associate these things with the Japanese salaryman look. No idea if a great number of them even used these items, but there's something very appealing about the aesthetic.

 

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The best aesthetic: well dressed people with cats and dogs

 

[comrade]

If he was Jewish he would not have been a WASP, which stands for White Anglo Saxon Protestant. In virtue of being Jewish, he would not be any of those four things.

I was referrring to the accent that the jewish Tuchman shared w/ Plimton. For that matter FDR was not technically a
WASP because he was not Anglo Saxon. He was Dutch and his mother's side was Huguenot French.

Old British Dudes


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They look more like toffs than dudes.

 

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A friend of mine travels around the world for fishing. I don't know very much about fishing, but he tells me that in Britain, some people fish on Scottish estates and still wear the sort of tweeds and whipcord trousers that men used to wear while fishing about a generation ago. As he put it, "these are not your Armoury tweeds," meaning they are not finely tailored. Many fit like sacks, he told me. But they look cool on the wearers.

His description reminds me of these photos of Gary Cooper, who, of course, is not a British sportsman, but was once photographed in a sport coat-esque garment while traversing a log and fishing.

Those photos may have been staged, so here are some candid photos of Dr. Ernest Ceriani, a rural physician who served the poor during the mid-20th century. Again, interesting to see tailored clothing worn in a rough, casual context.

During one trip, two of his friends took him to go fishing in Gore Canyon. As my friend explained to me, American fishermen tend to not wear tailored clothing while fishing because of how fishing works in the UK vs US (British sportsmen fish by the banks, while Americans go out in boats or wade in water). Ceriani here had a change of clothes before heading out (first photo is them going to the fishing spot)

Then back to a shirt and tie, occasionally a coat, when treating patients

 

[FlyingHorker]

Thoughts on a sequel thread, or a follow up?

The "way they wore" is interesting, but I'm also interested in the "way they wear" today.

Ex: JFK in paddock cut.

Here is a recent example of the paddock cut suit that I like. I also dig the usage of tan shoes here.

I also rarely see people post relevant modern movie examples as well, unless I'm just not seeing them. Daniel Craig in Knives Out

 

[schraiber]

Thoughts on a sequel thread, or a follow up?

The "way they wore" is interesting, but I'm also interested in the "way they wear" today.

Ex: JFK in paddock cut.

Here is a recent example of the paddock cut suit that I like. I also dig the usage of tan shoes here.

I also rarely see people post relevant modern movie examples as well, unless I'm just not seeing them. Daniel Craig in Knives Out

I always liked Craig's overcoat in Knives Out.