1920s mens evening wear

Like the 1920s era itself, men’s fashion history of the Jazz Age was driven by youth. Young men returned from the Great War and left the strict dress codes and customs of the Victorian Era. They took advantage of the newly implemented work-free weekend to relax on the golf course, at the riding stables, or

1920s Fashion History, Mens Fashions HistoryA 1920s man dressed for his class or his job more than for an occasion, like women did. Upper-class gentlemen dressed in the finest suits, middle-class

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Evening wear by H. J. Nicoll & Co. Ltd, c. 1929. J. Scott. Wider trousers, broad shoulders, fitted waist. Short hair, brilliantine, toothbrush mustaches. Less-formal dinner jacket, black bow tie: single-breasted, wide silk-faced lapels, starched-front shirt, stiff wing collar. Formal dress: tailcoat, white waistcoat, white bow tie. Silk braid outer trouser seams. Byrde, Penelope. The Twentieth Century. B.T. Batsford, Ltd.: London : Batsford, 1992.

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