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This picture isn't that good, but it seems that his suits don't 'drape' that much if he stands and his coats are buttoned:

pchong wrote:But what's the deal with the ultra short tie?

If the double breasted coat was closed, nobody would see the "shortness" of the tie.

You can find two new articles from the "Herrenjournal" on this blog: http://www.camlots.blogspot.com

This is the mentioned article: " Der hellgraue Flanellzweireiher Immer zweireihig - Fünf verschiedene Fronten - Halbsportlich, aber auch korrekt - Viele Möglichkeiten für das Beiwerk. http://thumbnails.imajr.com/Grauer-Flanellzweireiher1-1231389.JPG http://thumbnails.imajr.com/Grauer-Flanellzweireih...

Thank you very much, cufflink79, for your nice words! Dear Marcelo, these pictures are in fact from 1950, not the thirties. The issues from the 30s can only be found in Berlin as far as I know and I wasn't able yet to digitise at least some of these issues from the 30s. But the articles in general a...

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Dear LL members, I am digitising the first post-war volumes of the german magazine "Herrenjournal". The "Herrenjournal" is comparable with American Apparel. I thope that these pictures might be of interest for you: http://browse.imajr.com/P1060283-1230654.JPG http://browse.imajr.com/P1060287-1230655...

A tailor visits Jungmann & Neffe regularly.

Thank you for this intesting report! I'm especially interested in shops in Perugia, because after finishing my studies I will go to the università per stranieri di Perugia (or Siena) for a half year or year (hopefully '09). Furthermore I will be in Tuscany and Umbria in a few weeks and will visit Pe...

The Habsburgers expelled the protestants. So there aren't many Lutherans left in Austria .

Pantherella and Falke are two brands, which deliver a very good quality.

Thank you for your explanation, schneidergott, very informative. Even today Staben is a well known and respected haberdasher in Hamburg. I like him more than Ladage&Oelke, because it's not so "british". Germans have the tendency to say that everything nice in clothing must be 'british' or 'english',...

What a wonderful thread, schneidergott! There are some very nice pictures, I especially like the Knize sportcoat of Adolph Menjou. But what does "ganz auf Hänsel gearbeitet" mean? Ich mein, ich "verstehe" es zwar, aber ich begreife es nicht so recht... Also interesting is that Staben (a renowned hab...

The essential Black Tie Guide says that a closure like this is called frog-closure and is borrowed from the original smoking jacket (i.e. Haus- oder Rauchjacke). That would mean that this type of closure is less formal and more appropriate for the host. As a precaution: A (black) "dinner jacket" (B...

It seems that in some of the pictures the outfits are traced with dark lines to make the cut more obvious. The use of shawl collars on coats and overcoats attracted my attention, but there is a reason why we do not find it ever since, I think. @ alden The hats seem to be just "a little bit" too smal...