The fellow in the Esquire illustration today combines about as many classic details for an odd jacket ensemble as are safe to wear outside the privacy of one's own home: brown bluchers, large trouser cuffs, three patch and flap jacket pockets, a sweater under that jacket, a pinned shirt collar, a knit necktie and a tweed cap.
Well done!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Well Done
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And a 3/2 roll on the jacket!
Those Laurence Fellows drawings never get old.
Liking the Scotty Dog handkerchief accessory suggestion.
Just the thing for a jacket with a flapped breast pocket still.
Except for the pipe, that could be me.
The artist will be hearing from my lawyer!
I particularly like the French blue shirt & maroon sweater alternative at the side.
Will, you wouldn't ever have a visible pocket square on a flapped breast pocket like that, would you?
Will, Is it safe to assume that the drawings you post from Esquire depict styles which were mainstream at the time originally published? Most of the styles I see in Esquire now are what I would call experimental or provocative. (Of course, it could be an entirely different publication for all I know.)
And a single button on the sleeve, for which Will just might go.
finding a jacket like that is hard, but I recently came across a new line
called Crittendon; apparently the owner retired from the clothing business, got bored, and after buying the Duke of Windsors wardrobe, has started a new company inspired by it and his experience...very nice pieces!
Achilles, the early Esquires meant to educate by showing what the best dressed men were wearing, unlike today's publications that show what large clothing manufacturers have decided to sell.
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