Let’s say that you’re a wardrobe production manager for either Theater company or a Hollywood studio and have either a play or production that you need some vintage style mens suits for your male cast members. Well don’t think for one minute that you can just walk into your local Macy’s or Men’s Wearhouse and find what you’re looking for. Vintage style mens suits are all about style from a bygone era and those places sell suits that are for the more staid office world where style is simply frowned upon.
Vintage style mens suits represent the styles of suits from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and are well represented in movies from those eras. You’re going to find that back then, men wore suits that were far more stylish and daring on a daily basis than what are worn these days. It was not uncommon for men to wear a suit in the good old days that was made of bolder pattern cloth fabric than what you would see on your basic business suit these days. Plaid with louder patterns and bolder stripes pattern fabrics like you would see on your typical Warner Brothers gangster movie. Style seemed to matter much more for the average metropolitan man when it came to suit fashion and the vintage styles that they wore back then reflected this mightily.
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gangster style suits were very big in the 1930s and 1940s with zoot suits being a predominantly African American and Mexican American uniform of both style and protest as the Zoot suit wars demonstrated. The bold stripes that you would see on gangster style suits also reflected a brash and bold in your face demeanor that symbolized that vintage era and would be seen everywhere in American cities back in the day. You could also see slightly longer jacket lengths than your typical business suit on a vintage style suit because there seemed to be no set rules in stone for how the styles were to be worn. It seemed almost like if the designer felt going one way with a certain style pattern or cut, then that was the way it was going to be made for that particular era. It must of been quite fun shopping for those stylish vintage era suits back in the good old days.