An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age film based on the true story of a bright 16 year old schoolgirl and the thirtyish scoundrel who seduces her in 1960's London. Odile Dicks-Mireaux (A Constant Gardner and Dirty Pretty Things among others) did the men's costumes a la Sean Connery as James Bond.
The men are hatted, narrow tied and tie barred, wearing solids for the most part with lapels that complement the width of the neckties. I am sceptical that British men would have been belted fifty years ago but the palettes would be at home today.
Worth a look for anyone seeking more Mad Men style.
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It takes a keen eye to notice a small detail like that, but of course that is your forte!
A cad and bounder too.
I would say that the 60s were the decade when younger men began to wear belts, across all the classes.
Will,you like the style of early 60s?
In Italy suits were clean and net,but not so skinny like in USA.
Of course guys were belted in sixties London. I was there. In fact braces for the young and youngish were completely beyond the pale. This movie captured the zeitgeist fairly well I'd say. The Bristol the bad guy drives was one of THE cars of the era along with the Alvis, Jaguar E type, Healy 3000, and Aster.
I loved loved loved that skinny & tight aesthetic as a young man, but always knew that in the modern day, such clothes were costume.
Being of small frame and short stature, I naturally tend towards narrower lapels and ties, but now, in my mature years, find any non-knit tie under 3" unwearable.
Even so, it's nice to see the popularity of narrowness. I'm happy that the zeitgeist is moving more towards my dream, even if it is 20 years too late for me to wear it.
The 1960s--what an atrocious decade! I wish it would go away.
As if the hippies and stinking flower children weren't enough, now we see the younger unenlightened generation falling in love with the MadMen fad.
One can tell these tubby chaps are cads by the narrow cut of their necktie and jacket lapels.
Narrowness of lapel, narrowness of mind. It all adds up.
Laguna beach fogey: I'd say you know not of what you speak. Speaking as a 60's Mad Man, you haven't the faintest idea of what a great time it was. The only comparable era was the 90's and that was fairly pale by comparison.
Hippies were in late 60s.
We speak of early/mid 60s (1960-1966)a age of taste and elegance,with a great silhoutte for men.
LBF,
What dem udder guys sed. While I agree with your distaste for the hippies and other horrors of the Cultural Revolution, we are talking about the early 60s, the continuation of the 50's aesthetic.
I must also object to your misrepresentation of pre-Civil Rights America as "narrow-minded." Our forebears built a great, if imperfect, country with unprecedented freedom and prosperity; we have not handled their legacy well at all.
Besides, LBJ and his cohort wore narrow ties and lapels with stingy-brimmed hats (when they were behatted at all), and they don't get accused of narrow-mindedness, now do they?
Certainly younger men wore belts in the early '60s.
There are photographs of my grandad in his mid-30s looking pretty sharp in his suit, wearing a belt in what must have been 1963 or '64.
He was a bricklayer from Eltham, South East London (a working class, though neat and tidy part of London) - not into fashion by any stretch of the imagination, but looked pretty smart.
In early 1960s Britain belts were certainly worn by younger men but hats were very rarely worn - only a few Mods sported them. Hats had been slowly disappearing since the middle 1930s.
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