Men's Style back in 1910

OMG ALL THOSE BLACK SHOES!!!

All those black captoes oxfords/balmorals and cap toe bluchers.

not SF approved.

Single center vents, not SF approved
Thank you so much for sharing!

Thanks for sharing these images. Very enlightening.



Percy Trimmer said:

. . . and that trouser cuffs were commonplace.

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Still are......

Two Points:

1. 1910 was 102 years ago. In a fundamental sense styles have hardly changed
in a century. If I took one of these suits to my (excellent) tailor, he would be able to alter it
to look "au courant". If this were 1912 and we were looking back at 1812, the styles would
be very different -- not alterable. If it were !812 looking back at 1712 the difference in style
would be even more radical.

2. In 1910 there was a consensus more or less as to what was "correct".
I can recall this term being used in Rogers Peet catalogs through the 1960s.
It mean't what a gentleman or a would be gentleman wears. Except for our own
Will , Manton and others, the concept has lost it's force. I for one, who subscibes
to the idea of correctness, am typing this response in a cotton collared polo shirt,
Lucky Jeans, and Nike running shoes. My closet is bursting with high-end RTW:
Isaia, Belvest, Battistoni, Partenopea, H. Freeman, Winston Tailors(MTM) clothing
which never wears out beacuse I don't usually wear it. Admittedly, I worked in Tech
for over two decades during which the dress standards slipped from sportcoats
and suits ( to meet with clients) to cargo pants and chinos. I was always an outlier
in buying and sometimes wearing good clothes because I liked them and was
socialized to them through my father and where and when I attended college and
where I worked upon graduating.