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Sartorial Color Photos From 1940 - A Look Back

Thurston

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Love the tag on this one "Light and Dark Meat"

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Baron

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I generally go for dark, but I'm feeling like some white meat today.
 

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Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
 

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Is it just me or does that middle bum (err, homeless gentleman) in the first picture look like Clint Eastwood?
 

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Originally Posted by AndrewRogers
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Check out the belly on the lapels on that man's overcoat.
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Originally Posted by Thurston
Peter Bogdanovich?

Alan Greenspan ca. 1940?
 

vitaminc

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Originally Posted by luftvier
If only men still had such style.

Pictures from the Satorialist could be described the same 50 years from now.

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I couldn't imagine buying tires from someone in a double breasted or three piece suit. Unreal:



I would imaging tires and automobiles are luxury items back then...
 

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Great photos. I'm going to love sitting down tonight and having a good look through the link. Thanks for sharing.
 

fcuknu

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Why is it that every person in these photos (and most older photos) perfectly tailored? Would it be that most suits back then were mtm? As opposed to most suiting being rtw these days?
 

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