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1920's Mens Suits
It's said men's fashion hasn't changed a whole lot between the Roaring Twenties and today: the numbers of quality suit cutters and tailors has significantly decreased, and the quality of many suit makers is spotty at best. Today the styles and look of suits remains classic and timeless.
The ready-to-wear clothing movement due to the rise of the department store catalogue were booming - bringing the popular styles of modern men's suits to the major cities to the rural areas of the country.
Fine men's suits and the Birth of "the American Dream"Millions of young people moved into the city. No longer was it the American dream to own a few acres, raise a few kids, and live a little life of "quiet desperation" on a farm somewhere. . . The Roaring Twenties made it clear that it was a new age where anyone's dreams could come true if you had the balls to chase them. You just had to look at Carnegie or Rockefeller for proof. . . the look of success had changed. Wall Street was charging ahead, inventions were a dime a dozen, the Silver Screen and Broadway Shows were alive with beautiful talented stars of the "golden age" of business, movies, music, and fashion. It was an exciting time to be alive. . . Business and fashions were booming: though Rockefeller’s Standard oil had been broken up in 1911, and Andrew Carnegie died in 1919, huge businesses were thriving and there was a immediate need for talented advertising, accounting, and media people.
New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles all saw huge spikes in their populations after the war. . . men's suits and business-wear came into vogue shortly thereafter. As an added bonus of all this commerce, the mail order catalogues from Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward exposed the rural country kids to new men's fashions. With the bright lights and excitement of city life - do you really blame them for leaving their father's farm behind? Classic Style of Men's SuitsIn the early part of the 1920's the "conservative Suit", as it's known, was the most popular mens suit style.With it's tightly fitted jacket, high "pinched" waist and narrow shoulders, the conservative suit cut a thin silhouette - hardly the look of the American businessman as we've come to know him. Men's fashion was soon to change. Right about 1924, the style of mens suits shifted away from the thin cut and pinched waist look of what was then known as the "Jazz suit". It was during this time that fine American suit makers like Brooks Brothers Clothing came into their own as leaders in American men's fashion. These high end men's suits are the ones you will often see well dressed men sporting in the pages of the latest men's fashion magazines, in the movies, and on television. Men's Fashion History With the birth of urban business wear the suit made a huge trasformation during the Twenties.
In the previous era, a suit came in three seperate parts: the jacket, vest, and trousers. In recent years the vest has become an anomaly. But, up until the end of the Victorian era, men wore a "suit" of clothes made from the same materials and of the same color only to informal occasions. Back then, formal menswear was a tuxedo with all the elements, the jacket (with tails), vest, and pants all made from different types of materials. Follow the links on this page to get more perspective on the great history of mens suits and how the classical styles of the past are still reflected in today's fashion.
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Brooks Brothers and other fine men's clothing houses defined the look that has shaped the 