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Hello lads,

I've read through all of the archived AA/Esky articles, salivating over the pictures. What is the source of the images these days? Were tehy scanned from origianll AA's or is there a more complete repository online somehwere?

I'm hungry for more ideas and inspiration.

I'd like to know, too.

I'd hoped that a book of the illustrations might be available somewhere. I looked on Amazon, but to no avail.

Who are the illustrators?

This is a well known source of illustrations from Esquire:
Men in Style: Golden Age of Fashion from "Esquire" (Hardcover), by Woody Hochswender & Kim Johnson Gross.



The introduction features some information on the illustrators. This book is, alas, out-of-print, and second hand exemplars are not very cheap.

Marcelo

Ed Hayes indicated that Conde Nast still holds copyrights to the old Esquire/AA material. There was some talk a few years ago about possibly trying to create a CD-ROM of the material, but it didn't come to fruition.

carl browne wrote:I'd like to know, too.

I'd hoped that a book of the illustrations might be available somewhere. I looked on Amazon, but to no avail.

Who are the illustrators?

Lawrence Fellows was one of the most noted of the AA/Esky illustrators, along with Leslie Saalburg.

marcelo wrote:This is a well known source of illustrations from Esquire:
Men in Style: Golden Age of Fashion from "Esquire" (Hardcover), by Woody Hochswender & Kim Johnson Gross.



The introduction features some information on the illustrators. This book is, alas, out-of-print, and second hand exemplars are not very cheap.

Marcelo

Yes- the few copies I've seen are going for $500.

hello CG,

I dont know how motivated you are to get these but first and foremost ask yourself why you would like to get them. Because they are anything but cheap these days. To get the MOST out of them you need to have all your basics covered and have a solid understanding of principles that underlay menswear. These should be used as a stepping stone in your style (where you take whatever useful from them and move forward in our times) not as crutches.

Forget the book "Men in style" its not worth more than 70-80 if even that. Plus almost every illustartion in it is already on LL and in color (some in book are black and white).

if you are really interested in these and need a cheaper way to go by it. Starting getting Esquires from 1933-1939 usually lots on ebay and other book sites. Each issue should cost you $20-30 and you will get solid 7-8 illustations per issue. That should be more than enough for the time being.

Apparel Arts issue are on ebay often but be prepared to pay $300-400 per issue. The amount of info on LL for free will cost you $3000-5000 worth of issues at least.

Use the search feature for more posts about this topic here and at other forums to find more info.

hope ot helps

I did find it on Amazon, and it's $500. Uh--no, thanks.

It is interesting to know that the idea of creating a CD-ROM with old Esquire/AA material has already been considered. The fabulous book The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Mens Style, the author of which happens to be a LL member, mentions in its first pages a further “forthcoming” work by the same author, a book entitled: Discourses on the First Decade of Apparel Arts. Does anybody know weather Mr Antongioavanni did accomplish this project? I have not been able to find any other books by him in at Amazon. It is incidentally worth mentioning that Alden’s is the first name mentioned in the list of persons to whom the author feels indebted.

Another interesting collection of illustrations, in the same spirit of those contained in Esquire and Apparel Arts, is the one featuring the work by the American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker (1874 -1951).



Some of the illustrations by Leyendecker are available at: http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1049#more-1049

Do other LL member also appreciate his work?

marcelo wrote:Do other LL member also appreciate his work?

I do indeed. RL Magazine recently had a piece on Leyendecker: http://entertainment.ralphlauren.com/ma ... decker.asp

Also, I have come across some other Esquire images (Dec. 1959) that I do not believe have been previously posted, so here they are (sourced from http://stylecourt.blogspot.com/2008/12/ ... quire.html):

marcelo wrote:Another interesting collection of illustrations, in the same spirit of those contained in Esquire and Apparel Arts, is the one featuring the work by the American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker (1874 -1951).



Some of the illustrations by Leyendecker are available at: http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1049#more-1049

Do other LL member also appreciate his work?

Thanks marcelo! I just ordered that book.

I've found at Style Forum in the Styleforum Gallery someone has posted many illustrations from AA.

http://www.styleforum.net/g/showgallery.php/cat/556

You need to be a registered user to acces.

David V, thanks a lot for the splendid collection of images. (I have saved all of them).

In addition to Esquire’/Apparel Arts’ and J.C. Leyendecker’ illustrations, a further source of interesting sartorial images is the work by the British caricaturist Spy, alias Leslie Ward, published in Vanity Fair. My attention was attracted to Spy’s cartoons thanks to the recently published book by the LL member Nicholas Storey. The very cover of Nicholas’ book features one of Spy’s drawing. A rich collection of Spy’s drawings has been amassed in a volume entitled In ‘Vanity Fair’, ed. Roy Matthews and Peter Mellini.



Here Leslie Ward as seen by 'Pal' (Jean de Paleologu) 1889.

The Vanity Fair images can be found at
http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/spy/SPY-SUBS.htm