For a New Year's gift to the London Lounge, we have the May 1936 issue of
Esquire.
The undergraduate is wearing a three-button glen plaid Shetland suit, 3-roll-2 with side vents.
A primer on dress.
A symphony in brown:
The Anthony Eden influence. Grey flannel with a faint blue windowpane, two button peak lapel suit. Gloves are white pigskin, vest is white linen, and the shirt is a fine batiste.
Dress for a picnic: suede bluchers, a silk foulard handkerchief, and an unusual (for today) dusky, pale red shirt.
Navy striped suit, white linen vest, chamois gloves, whangee stick. The stripes and the long roll of the lapel are slimming.
Clothes for turf. Glen Urquhart plus fours, brown and white Norwegian spectator shoes, alpaca cardigan, and white foulard scarf with an overcheck.
The college student of 1936 in a gabardine sports coat with side vents, grey flannel trousers, regatta striped socks, and repp tie.
At the races. Peccary pigskin gloves, gabardine raincoat.
A beautiful illustration from Nettleton shoes. Note the covert coat on the right, and the two gentlemen on the left and center, who both wear three-piece double-breasted suits (a rare model today).
