Saturday, April 17, 2010
Sartorialist note – notice the button placement on his DB jacket
We don’t know much about the gentleman on this picture, despite the fact that he always wore something in his breast pocket.
The photo reads something in the back in a mix of french for the title “Le Leme “(North of France, near Paris), and Italian for month “Aprile”.
1922 – it was bought at a flea market in Florence.
Anonymous
April 17, 2010 at 2:24 pm
What a striking gentleman, very dapper. He's got the shoes to show in the bottom photo.
Zepequeña
April 17, 2010 at 2:26 pm
I love these old photos!
Zepequeña.
lorraine
April 17, 2010 at 2:42 pm
love this pictures!
Davidikus
April 17, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Nice pics.
It looks like someone I have seen before. I would need to research that but I cannot find Le Leme on a map.
As for the buttons, there was far more flexibility in terms of tailoring in those days (precisely because most suits were bespoke). It looks to me like a classic (albeit narrow) 3/2 double breasted suit where the bottom two buttons were removed – or never put on, really. It is actually fairly late that the English practice of buttoning the bottom button on a 3/2 caught up in France. Such suits used to be buttoned via the middle button only. At some point the Duke of York (or the Duke of Windsor?) started to button only the bottom button (not the middle one) & this is when French tailors started to add the bottom two buttons (with a buttonhole, often absent before that)…
I still think it best to button only the middle button! But I am (a) a traditionalist when it comes to suits & (b) a bit taller than average so I don't need to lengthen my silhouette.
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Izzen
April 17, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Handsome!
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f2images
April 17, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Wow, gorgeous gorgeous photos and fashion sense.
Emiko
FASHION SNAG
April 17, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Love the different blazers.
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THESTREETFASHION5XPRO
April 17, 2010 at 4:17 pm
great photo contest
Elizabeth
April 17, 2010 at 4:32 pm
All of these vintage photos make my head swirl between longing for the elegance, quality and apparent individuality of the past, against the comfort and freedom of today. Not that any of the vintage people really look that uncomfortable. I guess I'm thinking I would be uncomfortable, esp. in the small town where I live, if I dressed up that much. Hmmm, food for thought.
Unhessl
April 17, 2010 at 5:21 pm
I love the fact that these photographs are safe and salvaged from an undignified future in some dark, forgotten, solitary place.
The elegant man from the past deserves to be inspected, having so much inspiration to give.
I especially like the stripy tie in the first picture.
Julia, the Thanksgiving Girl
April 17, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I also love the very stylish chair in the second photo! Good composition too.
Sarah Angel
April 17, 2010 at 5:33 pm
handsome! when is the winner of the contest announced??
m.edwin
April 17, 2010 at 5:33 pm
i love how tight the armholes are in the top photo; and that determined gaze, nice
Will
April 17, 2010 at 5:34 pm
A possible 'Jazz Suit' in that first picture? The time frame is right but it was more of a very short-lived American phenomenon than a European thing.
Anonymous
April 17, 2010 at 10:38 pm
This Vintage series is so exceptional. I can pour over each photo for so long. What a set to inspire. hugs, c
Anonymous
April 18, 2010 at 4:07 am
That first photo is amazing…
Anonymous
April 18, 2010 at 5:57 am
Look at the beauty of his hands in the first photo!
Anonymous
April 18, 2010 at 8:35 am
The gentleman in the second photo is not the same one in the other two.
jkh
April 18, 2010 at 3:56 pm
YOU HAVE TO MAKE A BOOK OF THIS.
Morgan
April 18, 2010 at 4:28 pm
The original Don Draper!… I love this man.
Anonymous
April 18, 2010 at 6:40 pm
The second picture is soooo great!
Barbara
April 19, 2010 at 7:44 am
wow…simply stunning.
Anonymous
April 19, 2010 at 10:48 am
Neatness exudes respectfulness to others and somewhat of a genteel nature in all business. I wish there were more around today that dressed this way.
Lucas Jones
April 19, 2010 at 2:44 pm
what is "DB"?
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cios
April 19, 2010 at 3:06 pm
i love the style of these pics , the clothing is simply wonderful
brodinski
April 20, 2010 at 8:41 am
that 1st image is so gatsby. love it
mozartem-nacieralem-uszy
April 20, 2010 at 5:34 pm
oh, tell me where are these boys…
I just love vintage photos :)
Julia
April 21, 2010 at 1:08 am
I love those photos. I wish I saw this post earlier – I would contribute a photo myself.
RS
April 21, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Looks like you are familiar with "The Impossible Cool?"
SwanDiamondRose
April 21, 2010 at 4:48 pm
very nice button placement.
SwanDiamondRose
April 21, 2010 at 4:54 pm
oh, and love the pant length. i'm done now.
Anonymous
April 25, 2010 at 1:00 am
Oh…the first photo is **the** defintive hair cut. Beautiful profile. I'm seduced! Makes me utterly nostalgic for times I never knew.
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Anonymous
January 16, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Is the first picture not JD Salinger?!