It was tweedy weather out yesterday so for the first time this winter I donned my blue tweed 3-piece sports suit from Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh. Why is it a sports suit?
It's very heavy tweed for cold country weather and the jacket has two feature unique to vintage sports suits/jackets: a short single vent in the back and two patch pockets on the jacket skirt. You won't see these very often on non-sport and more conservative suits before the 1950s.
Mine is dated September 1940.
It's very heavy tweed for cold country weather and the jacket has two feature unique to vintage sports suits/jackets: a short single vent in the back and two patch pockets on the jacket skirt. You won't see these very often on non-sport and more conservative suits before the 1950s.
Mine is dated September 1940.
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3 comments:
Very, very cool. For all the talk for "progress", we certainly have left behind some fashion gems. Well done.
Agreed 100%. The 1930s-1950s are called the Golden Era (of style) for a reason, why wander too far away from it?
That is a really beautiful suit. I do think it's a shame people don't dress like that much anymore.
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