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Catalog of The Royal Tailoring Company showing Men's Fashions c. 1915-1920

I bought this catalog  for menswear of 1920 in fragments, so I can't be certain of the order of the pages.  However from the catalog it is easy to deduce several things:  Many of the fashions in it date from earlier than 1920 because the women's dresses that appear in the background of several plates are styles of 1915-1916, the constant exhortation to "order a second set of trousers" with the suit indicates that it was not a normal included item, which means we are talking a bit lower end suits, so this is probably showing styles ordered by middle to lower middle class men who were just above getting standard mass produced off the rack suits, but below getting completely custom tailored ones.

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The Great War : Styles & Patterns of the 1910s

Great Fashion Designs of the Twenties Paper Dolls in Full Color
Roaring Twenties Paper Dolls

 

Men's Coats (The Twentieth Century-Histories of Fashion Series) Men's Fashion Illustrations from the Turn of the Century The Hidden Consumer : Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914 (Studies in Design and Material Culture)

Fashions of the Roaring '20s

Everyday Fashions of the Twenties As Pictured in Sears and Other Catalogs

Don We Now Our Gay Apparel : Gay Men's Dress in the Twentieth Century

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