SG,
First of all, how is it that you have old german tailoring magazines? Did you buy them on ebay or inherited them? Also, if you have more images from those magazines, please upload them.
As dopey noted the white jacket is a mess jacket. It surprises me to see it in a fashion magazine from 1943, cause the mess jacket had gone out of fashion (although it will never come out of style) by 1936, having been common only for three years, and in fact only common in America as a summer/hot/tropical weather alternative to black tie. It was soon substituted by the white dinner jacket. But it surprises me to see it as fashion in 1943 and in Germany, which is not hot enough to require it. I've only seen two other pictures of it, available in
www.blacktieguide.com and one is an Esquire illustration
http://www.blacktieguide.com/History/19 ... ts_DTM.jpg and the other is a 1934 photograph
http://www.blacktieguide.com/History/19 ... ropped.gif as you can see. I made the article here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mess_jacket_%28civil%29 with a bit of history and style description. There are many other beautifull depictions of black tie in that webpage, both in photographs of elegant dandies and in fantastic esquire illustration (many of which aren't here in the london lounge, so its worth to look around).
Regarding style I don't think it depicts english style. Of course there is an influence, as in all of men wear for the last 200 years. But I think there is a very marked German style in these illustrations. For example, the coats of 77 to 80 aren German, and I don't say this because I'm an expert, but because of two reasons: one is that their style is neither english nor american nor french nor italian, therefore it must be its own german style, and the other is that the look they have, simple, with minimum decorations, not fitted, and practicallity for the central European weather reveals I believe its very German. Another thing that shows a marked style is the hats worn by most of the men, which are also quite peculiar. The sportswear depicted in the items 81 to 85, with belted jackets, green suit with what we call in spain 'bombacho' trousers, the one worn by 82, and 83 looks like a member of the Hitler's youth with that safari-styled shirt and shorts... I general I think its clearly a German style.
You said that if we have other old fashion images to upload them. Well I don't have any one of myself, but apart from the black tie guide webpage, there is
http://www.marcguyot.com/1.aspx which is a peculiar french tailor's webpage, but has all around the webpage and specially in the archives section, lots of esquire/AA illustrations many of which I aren't arround in the lounge.[/img]
