A Single Man, Vintage Photo Contest
Sartorialist note - notice the button placement on his DB jacket
We don't know much about the gentleman on this picture, despite the fact that he always wore something in his breast pocket.The photo reads something in the back in a mix of french for the title "Le Leme "(North of France, near Paris), and Italian for month "Aprile".
1922 - it was bought at a flea market in Florence.
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post a commentWhat a striking gentleman, very dapper. He's got the shoes to show in the bottom photo.
I love these old photos!
Zepequeña.
love this pictures!
Nice pics.
It looks like someone I have seen before. I would need to research that but I cannot find Le Leme on a map.
As for the buttons, there was far more flexibility in terms of tailoring in those days (precisely because most suits were bespoke). It looks to me like a classic (albeit narrow) 3/2 double breasted suit where the bottom two buttons were removed - or never put on, really. It is actually fairly late that the English practice of buttoning the bottom button on a 3/2 caught up in France. Such suits used to be buttoned via the middle button only. At some point the Duke of York (or the Duke of Windsor?) started to button only the bottom button (not the middle one) & this is when French tailors started to add the bottom two buttons (with a buttonhole, often absent before that)...
I still think it best to button only the middle button! But I am (a) a traditionalist when it comes to suits & (b) a bit taller than average so I don't need to lengthen my silhouette.
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Handsome!
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Wow, gorgeous gorgeous photos and fashion sense.
Emiko
Love the different blazers.
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great photo contest
All of these vintage photos make my head swirl between longing for the elegance, quality and apparent individuality of the past, against the comfort and freedom of today. Not that any of the vintage people really look that uncomfortable. I guess I'm thinking I would be uncomfortable, esp. in the small town where I live, if I dressed up that much. Hmmm, food for thought.
I love the fact that these photographs are safe and salvaged from an undignified future in some dark, forgotten, solitary place.
The elegant man from the past deserves to be inspected, having so much inspiration to give.
I especially like the stripy tie in the first picture.
I also love the very stylish chair in the second photo! Good composition too.
i love how tight the armholes are in the top photo; and that determined gaze, nice
handsome! when is the winner of the contest announced??
A possible 'Jazz Suit' in that first picture? The time frame is right but it was more of a very short-lived American phenomenon than a European thing.
This Vintage series is so exceptional. I can pour over each photo for so long. What a set to inspire. hugs, c
That first photo is amazing...
Look at the beauty of his hands in the first photo!
The gentleman in the second photo is not the same one in the other two.
YOU HAVE TO MAKE A BOOK OF THIS.
The original Don Draper!... I love this man.
The second picture is soooo great!
wow...simply stunning.
Neatness exudes respectfulness to others and somewhat of a genteel nature in all business. I wish there were more around today that dressed this way.
what is "DB"?
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i love the style of these pics , the clothing is simply wonderful
that 1st image is so gatsby. love it
oh, tell me where are these boys...
I just love vintage photos :)
I love those photos. I wish I saw this post earlier - I would contribute a photo myself.
Looks like you are familiar with "The Impossible Cool?"
very nice button placement.
oh, and love the pant length. i'm done now.
Oh...the first photo is **the** defintive hair cut. Beautiful profile. I'm seduced! Makes me utterly nostalgic for times I never knew.
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Is the first picture not JD Salinger?!