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Newspaper advertisement for women's dresses, Paris Dress Shoppe, Allentown PA, 1930. Summer fashion, 1930. Woman's dress, 1931. A collection of swimwear, Ladies Home Journal, 1932. Dutch actress Cissy van Bennekom and model Eva Waldschmidt, 1932. Workers leaving the factory, Buenos Aires, 1933. Models wearing evening dresses by Jeanne Lanvin, 1933.
A 1909 fashion plate of the new Chesterfield. The Chesterfield is a formal, dark, knee-length overcoat with a velvet collar introduced around the 1840s in the United Kingdom.A less formal derivation is the similar, but with a lighter fabric, slightly shorter, top coat called a covert coat.
Drape suits are a British variation of the three-piece suit introduced in the 1930s, in which the cut is full and "drapes". It is also known as the blade cut or London cut . [ 1 ] The design of the athletic aesthetic of the drape suit is attributed to the London tailor Frederick Scholte .
Apparel Arts magazine, an account of 1930s fashion and style; some issues more relevant than others, such as those reproduced with comment at The London Lounge. Amies, Hardy (2013). The Englishman's Suit. London: Quartet Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7043-7169-9. Antongiavanni, Nicholas (2006). The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style ...
A new style of court dress, worn from the 1840s, comprised a dark, frequently black, cloth (or silk-velvet) single-breasted dress coat (lined with black silk, except for the tail, which was white), with a stand collar. This was worn with a white satin or black silk collarless waistcoat, and white neckcloth.
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The Disco suit, a fashion of the 1970s with wide lapels and flared trousers and usually necktie omitting, often in white or brightly coloured polyester fabric, the jacket was based on the jackets popular in the 1930s. This style was epitomized by John Travolta's suit in the 1976 film Saturday Night Fever.
It was an alternative to the popular fishtail parka or trenchcoat. As the 1960s wore on, and into the early 1970s, Crombie-style coats were popular within Britain's vibrant youth culture, particularly the suedehead subculture. In the 1980s the company was purchased and became privately owned.