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Mar 05, 2020 But the fashion icon says that in order to create real and meaningful change, men need to be engaged. On Thursday, visionary leaders will take center stage at the Tory Burch Foundation's 2020. Icons of Men's Style examines, garment by garment, the most important and famous of these products – their provenance and history, the stories of their design, the brand/company that started it all and how the item shaped the way men dress today.
1920’s Men in Suits and HatsLike 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 at the lake. Were not at all conducive to a leisurely picnic in the park or a morning on the tennis court.Young men scoffed at the older generation’s tailored suits with their tight, stiff shirt collars that forced them into the proper gentlemanly posture. In fact, the debate over the was so crucial to men’s fashion of the era that the fashionable Andre de Fouquieres, considered the “Beau Brummel of modern France,” rejected the notion of abandoning the stiff collar as “pure madness.” Eventually, soft attached collars won out. Arrow Collar, stiff or soft?Suits were still worn, but they were simpler. The desire for soft collars also brought a desire for softer fabrics and brighter colors.
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Scott Fitzgerald, known as a bit of a clothes hound, wrote of Jay Gatsby impressing Daisy and Nick with his wardrobe:“shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue.”. HI- I’m writing a short novel set in 1924 and this blog has been fantastic resource. Just got the “Great Gatsby” fashion guide and am enjoying that to. I do have a questionI’ve got a young man (21) natty, but middle class attending am (inland) summer party that spans several days.
I put him in a linen suit for day-wearbut I just can’t seem to get a hat on his head. Panama hats seem formal/older, and boaters (to modern ears) like they’d be more for punting on the themes, while a cap (more inline w/ his personality) seems too sporty for a party. I know he should wear something but. Any advice would be appreciated.
–Thanks again for the fabulous guide – I’m looking forward to getting it in ebook form.says.
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