Category: Men’s Fashion

Necks Tuesday…fine bow ties

I ran across an article about the vendors at the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governor’s Island and found a write up about Necks Tuesday. What a great name for a tie store!! Necks Tuesday are a New York maker of hand finished bow ties which come in silk, fine wools, cotton and cashmere and have a very sharp vintage look, unlike many modern bow ties.

I also like the fact that they are not too loud and come in more muted shades, which allows them to be worn with most of the suit and shirt colours you find in a modern man’s wardrobe. Great to see some nice vintage repro being made for men. Here are some of the ties available.

 

You can find them at http://neckstuesday.com/

 

 

Everyday fashions of the 20s, 30s & 40s by Sears

For me, as a vintage clothing collector and wearer, old clothing catalogues are must have as they are gold-mines of imagery and info. Part of recreating a vintage look is understanding how an outfit was put together back in the day, and old catalogues are the best way to find this out.

The clothes people bought to wear to work, around the house, for vacations or for more formal or glamourous occasions are all to be found in Sears catalogues. Dresses, hats, shoes, purses and scarves, jewellery and stockings. These books are a wonderful record of exactly what people wore in the 20s, 30s and 40s and HOW they wore it. It can be hard to source original catalogues these days and most go for a fortune on ebay, so these three “Everyday Fashions” books from Dover Publications are great resource and not too expensive. I use them all the time as a reference. They are available from Amazon.com

 

Everyday fashions of the 1920s

Everyday Fashions of the 1930s

Everyday fashions of the 1940s

Book: “Cary Grant: A Celebration of Style”

Cary Grant

A divine book about a divine style icon, not just for the photos of Cary Grant in all his splendor, but a wonderful read as well. What a way to express fashion and style:

I’m talking about style, not only in the sense of how he wore his Savile Row suits, but style as a revelation of character, as a way of facing the world, a means by which all of life’s riches are embraced and celebrated.

– Prologue pXII

 

Anderson & Sheppard of Savile Row

This is the Savile Row bespoke tailor that dressed the likes of Fred Astaire, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Sir Laurence Olivier and Duke Ellington. They recently celebrated their 100th anniversary, and over their century of dressing the British upper-class and the American movie star, have managed to maintain their classic elegance like good British chaps. If you happen to be in London, do visit… if you can gather enough pomp to walk through those doors.