Men's Fashion Illustrations from the Turn of the Century

Mitchell Co., Jean L. Druesedow

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780486137049
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Fashion Design

Over 100 full-page, royalty-free illustrations document what well-dressed American men wore in early 1900s: checked and striped business suits, sporty knickers and jackets, elegant formal wear, long fur-trimmed coats, more. Includes variety of accessories: canes, gloves, spats.

Introduction

Firmly convinced that nothing we can do is too good for our subscribers, and that no excellence we attain in our work is unappreciated by them, and knowing that nothing contributes more to our own satisfaction than to surpass our best previous efforts, especially in the art direction, we make a new departure this month in fashion reporting.

The Sartorial Art Journal, July 1903

This enthusiastic statement captures the buoyant pride of the journal, a trade magazine serving the Merchant Tailors’ National Protective Association specifically and the trade in general. The Jno. J. Mitchell Publishing Company had begun publication of the The Sartorial Art Journal in 1874, offering tailor’s supplies (not cloth but tools), patented measuring devices, patterns and fashion plates. In July 1905 it announced the thirty-first volume in glowing terms

The Sartorial Art Journal has steadily expanded through thirty volumes from a single number of little more than pamphlet size to a bulk that averages each month about one hundred pages from cover to cover, and from two or three small diagrams to from eight to ten full page diagrams and illustrations; and special features and new departments have been added to it until it now includes full and authoritative information about everything of interest to merchant tailors and cutters from current fashions to how to exemplify them practically, from correct tailor-made garments for social functions, general wear, outing, sporting, uniforms and liveries to the minutest details of the dress accessories, and from the epoch-making organized movements of the trade to what individual tailors of prominence are doing. The plates of fashion which form, of course, the most important part of the publication, have increased in number of illustrations until sometimes ...

Table of contents

• DOVER BOOKS ON FASHION
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction