Esquire 1950 | The Original Mr. “T”

Mr. “T’ 
Esquire’s Trim New Look Take Over

 A fashion tornado has swept the country ever since Esquire’s premier showing last month of the new Mr. T fashions that will dominate your wardrobe from now on. Here’s exclusive chapter #2.

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Short Attention Span | Esquire 1956

Esquire menswear magazine’s fashion spread on top shorts for the summer of 1956.
 

The shorts story is longer than ever before, in terms of style and fabrics. Ever since Esquire made the first break ( in the March, 1953, issue ) the fashion has taken off and now is winning in a breeze.  Time was you [...]

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Operation Overcoat | An Illustrated History II, circa 1951

 
Beginnings of Some
Famous Overcoat Fashions
 

Lord Raglan’s Design
Opposite of Lord Chesterield’s fitted coat

The Raglan.  Originally the coat tailored for Lord Raglan was a tweed wrap which kept off the foggy chill while its wearer was shooting grouse.  What remained of the basic style was the Raglan Shoulder which was a marked departure from the set-in type. [...]

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Operation Overcoat | An Illustrated History, circa 1951

 
Emotional as well as economic changes often create the need for a change in fashion, and the textile world must be ready with the cloth.

The overcoat styles which are classified within the industry today as staples had their origin in circumstances which vary in many respects but have the common bond of functional need.  Demonstrating [...]

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Hats Off to Vintage Palm Beach Style

“So this fellow gave you the look?” – 
–”At his age it was more of a blink.” 

W. Clifford Klenk and his wife, Hope, in a photograph by Slim Aarons  –from the book “A Privileged Life.”
 

April 1968: Mr and Mrs Donald Lease with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside their home in Palm Beach, Florida. [...]

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Puttin’ on the Ritz | Laurence Fellows

 
Laurence Fellows (1885-1964)
An iconic illustrator and advertising artist, born in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Fellows attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and continued his studies in England and France.  His work appeared in Judge, Life, Vanity Fair, Apparel Arts, and Esquire.  At the start of the century he lived and worked in Philadelphia.  One of the true [...]

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Mad For Plaid | 1973

‘If you’re going to wear madras, you don’t want to wear something that looks like your grandfather’s,” said Thom Browne. ”Actually, your grandfather’s madras would be cool,” he amended. ”It’s your father’s that you don’t want.”
”Preppy looks so cool when it looks effortless,” Mr. Browne said, ”but when it looks contrived, there’s nothing worse.”’
 

  After Six [...]

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Vintage Menswear Illustrations | Era of Apparel Arts & Esquire

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David, Prince of Wales

The Prince of Wales’ full name was Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor but he went by David until he was crowned Edward VIII in 1936.
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“If there were no God,” said Voltaire some little time before he embraced Catholicism, “it would be necessary to invent Him.” Today the apparel industry echoes with religious [...]

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1930s British Regimental Illustrations

 

 

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