Calling all theatrical costumers and sartorial historians
March 11, 2022 3:04 PM Subscribe
What can you tell me about what this sharp-dressed man is wearing?
What are the technical terms for this man’s apparel? Would he have worn this in his job as a teller in a small-town bank in the 1920s? Does the high-and-tight hair style signal anything? Or, was it just the way men wore their hair at that time?
What are the technical terms for this man’s apparel? Would he have worn this in his job as a teller in a small-town bank in the 1920s? Does the high-and-tight hair style signal anything? Or, was it just the way men wore their hair at that time?
Pomade is the name of the product he would have used on his hair.
posted by Jane the Brown at 3:38 PM on March 11, 2022
posted by Jane the Brown at 3:38 PM on March 11, 2022
Best answer: He's wearing a single-breasted notch lapel suit with a fairly high lapel and a barchetta pocket.
The tie pin or stick pin may also be called a a collar pin or collar bar.
The high collar of his shirt suggests that it's a detachable collar. The soft attached collar became increasingly popular in the 1920s, but they tended to be shorter.
His very wide tie is typical of the earlier 20s. The point of a tie was normally not visible, being under a jacket or vest, and so ties tended to be short, ending at about the bottom of the sternum. It may have been a scarf tie or possibly a cravat.
posted by jedicus at 4:04 PM on March 11, 2022 [11 favorites]
The tie pin or stick pin may also be called a a collar pin or collar bar.
The high collar of his shirt suggests that it's a detachable collar. The soft attached collar became increasingly popular in the 1920s, but they tended to be shorter.
His very wide tie is typical of the earlier 20s. The point of a tie was normally not visible, being under a jacket or vest, and so ties tended to be short, ending at about the bottom of the sternum. It may have been a scarf tie or possibly a cravat.
posted by jedicus at 4:04 PM on March 11, 2022 [11 favorites]
His tie looks like a single layer of silk (so more like a scarf rather what we would call a necktie which is silk folded and sewn to a stiffer lining) and it looks to be tied in a half-Windsor knot.
posted by nouvelle-personne at 7:11 PM on March 11, 2022
posted by nouvelle-personne at 7:11 PM on March 11, 2022
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He has a tie pin - yes, I think that outfit could be worn while working as a teller.
posted by Jane the Brown at 3:38 PM on March 11, 2022