Illustration of the week #3

[alden]

Here is a dress chart with the 1935 version of good dress rules and advice.

No T shirts, jeans or blouses unbuttoned to the navel. How this generation of men must have suffered wearing real clothes….

What do you think?


Cheers

M Alden

[marcelo]

Thanks for this very interesting post. Unfortunately, my myopia is growing worse everyday and I cannot read the text in the first image – the letters came out too small. Could you please quote the source of this dress chart?

[alden]

M Alden

[Jordan Marc]

Michael:

Very useful chart for young and old alike, the former to learn from and the latter to refresh what should not be forgotten. I'd like to see a poster of this chart made available to members, with the lounge logo mimicing a printed selvedge strip as a banner, on glossy stock, suitable for framing.

A lax attitude toward dressing, or a total disregard for one's appearance and hygiene, puts us one step closer to moving back into the caves. I'm reminded of a caustic comment made by Diana Vreeland, the doyenne of Vogue and the head of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She said: "Rundown heels on a man are the end of civilization!" That's it in a nutshell.

JMB

[storeynicholas]

All very nicely on topic!!
NJS

[marcelo]

Dear Michael Alden
Thanks for the second post with the source of the dress chart. After having saved the second image and englarged it, I was able to read its content.