Here is illustrated how two marketing companies used cheesecake pinup, double entendre, and sexual innuendo to sell mens shirts and bed sheets.
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1924 mens and boys clothing ads: Knickerbockers, hats, trousers and more!
More fashion illustrations of what men and boys wore in the 1920s! It’s funny to see that ties were in fashion, for men and boys, and boys wore knickers. 5 pages of advertisements for mens and boys fashions from the 1924 St. Louis Fashion Pageant:
1920s Mens Fashion and Hat Ads
This starts out with a full page ad for The Snugset Clothes Company, which has an illustration of a fashionable man in a suit and alot of text (Men’s clothes that wear as well as they look!). Lion Hats by Langenberg Hat Co lets the picture do the talking. Bettmann-KleinHause Clothing Company (at 1204 Washington Ave.) has a full two page advertisement spread illustrating men and boys, and having on display: men’s suits, men’s overcoats, children’s suits, children’s knee pants, young men’s overcoats, young men’s suits, men’s and young men’s pants, and more.
Illustrated Miscellany: 1892 Hat Fashions, Victorian Embroidery, Dressmaking at Home, and other household crafts
Wow! These 10 pages of Fashions for January 1892 from the Delineator were truly illustrated miscellany! These include the latest hat fashions of the early 1890s, a discussion and description 0f different kinds of decorative bows, an illustration of a walking skirt and yolk waist, and a very full article on dressmaking at home. The [...]
1935 Boys and Mens Fashions – hats, suits, shirts, pants…
It’s interesting that mens’ suits fashions haven’t changed much in about 80 years. Advertising for men has changed quite alot since the 1930s though- and prices! $8.95 – wow. 37 cents for a “fine yarn blue chambray” mens’ shirt in a style that looks like it could be worn today. I think fashions for boys have [...]
1935 Wool Bathing Suits, Women’s Sportswear, and Mens’ Underwear…
At the end of the massive 1935 shoe section, there’s these two pages which include a miscellany of men’s summer suits, summer shoes, mens underwear (with a chest supporter that zips on??)… and the next page of women’s sportswear, pajamas, sandals, shorts with matching jersey tops, and wool swim suits. Interesting and overlooked details to [...]
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