At 84, I feel like I have just spent an hour watching a rerun of my life, that inculuded wearing detachable collars, when I was a Junior Bank Officer working with the ANZ Bank Relieving Staff, where the detachable collar kept me looking smart while I was doing a lot of travelling. And in the 1970s I thought I look very smart with the broad lapels and wide cuffs. Phil
Broad, or at least “moderate” lapels need to make a comeback, it’s hard to find a jacket off the rack, or even made-to-measure with more than a 3”, or even 2.75” lapel. Something half-way decent almost NEEDS to be bespoke or vintage thesedays, I’m in my 30s and I’m afraid by the time I’m around your age, or even younger than that…I worry I won’t be able to buy a suit off the rack anywhere, regardless of its level of quality.
70s, in my estimation, were an attempt to introduce native indigenous wardrobe and re-introduce the 1700's high fallutin' ostentatious flowy rufflly garb of the European Courts but wuth a twist for the modern era. The library at the California State Los Angeles campus has a large collection of fashion magazines of the 70's, and I find that the upper class wore some of the best TAILORED CLOTHES EVER SEEN. Compare them to what Real Housewives Shows wear at the "Reunion" shows. These Real Houewives ladies dress like street harlots sometimes at the reunions. Take a look at 1970's photos of Steve McQueen at parties, and Patricia Altschul 1970's personal photos at parties: IMPECCABLE.
I remember my grandfather wearing the 1940-60s style 'work uniform'. As a kid I thought he looked like a police officer though he was actually a milk man. LoL That said he and his coworkers as well as other workers looked far more professional than workmen have in the last four or five decades.
Ah the 70’s. Me in 1974 wearing my Michael Jackson inspired attire while my father wore crushed velvet sport coats flair legged plaid pants with 3 inch cuff. Grandfather was in solid color jumpsuits. Uncle favored leisure suits. We all were confident and in style.
My father was a Teddy Boy and for a time wore a genuine Edwardian suit which he was given by an elderly neighbour who had kept it since his youth. It was black, apparently it fitted like a glove and was the envy of my dad's friends.
I like the bright 60s clothing, body shirts, and short shorts. I get that it's too much for some people, but one thing they're not is bland. So so much of men's clothing is in dark, muted, or neutral colors and simple or boxy cuts. Men's clothing is often so unimaginative and dull it puts me to sleep. I'm not knocking suits/"classic" things at all, they look great and you should wear them if you like them! But color, loud prints, decorative elements, interesting cuts and materials, and breaking the rules of fashion are for 100% you too if you want. Whatever you wear, you deserve to feel good in it!
I must disagree about the 40's work wear. I'd much rather see that than the current trend of going to work looking like they dressed out of a rag bag. 😕 I wish my current employer had a uniform service. It looks very professional, even if not really an exciting look.
One of my colleague asked me once, (who noticed that I usually wear suit pants), is there something between jeans and suit pants? He wanted to wear something a bit more professional looking, but not too fancy. I answered, sure, look for chinos and khaki pants. He was genuinely amazed, that plain cloth pants are exists and also look nice. He instantly bought a few pairs. Jeans have such a monopoly, people are basically know nothing else.
You forgot the disco era, tight polyester shirts with big collars, open to the waist, chains around the neck and way too tight high waisted pants and platform shoes, you forgot those.
Gentlemen in the 30's, 40's and even 50's were far more elegant than today. It's great to watch old London town in mid 20 century movies. Such a fashionable place and with a clearly identifiable culture and people.
I remember hippies too well to have any nostalgia for them. Lennon took Gerorge Harrison to Haight Asbury to show him the hope for a new world, and Harrison said it looked like a collection of winos that smoked their drugs instead of drinking them.
My grandfather, who would be well into his 100s if he were still living, wore his green work sets for decades. That alone vouches for how well made and durable the pieces were. Those pants and shirts withstood many years of hard use on construction sites, doing yardwork, fixing cars, and gardening. The young kids in the neighborhood used to call him Mr. Green Jeans.
Several years ago we got a new boss. His first order of business was that the maintenance crew wear uniforms. What a difference it made. Made for a professional, well put together team. The tenants also felt safer knowing that any bum off the street couldn't stroll around in street clothes posing as maintenance. Great job Gents!!
Can confirm that there's still a few old boys who never gave up the Teddy Boy look and you can still see them I some pubs. They certainly aren't common, but you certainly won't miss them. Even if they're wearing modern clothes, the hair cut persists.
In the 80’s I remember that the trends changed every week, I worked in a department store in a mall so I could see the trends all the time. I had to wear a suit at work and I couldn’t afford an expensive one so I bought two black 80’s suits but they were not long with padded collars. They were both high waisted tailored one was double breasted and one was like a tuxedo and I wore them with really skinny ties. I had a very slim build so these suits looked great on me. But I do remember parachute pants and aviator clip belts and neon colored shirts and padded quilted shiny fabric shoes.
The shirt collar worn over the jacket's collar became a 'thing' in the late-30s with what were known then as "Hepsters", who became "Hipsters" by the 1950s. It's really not a bad look if done properly... The later 40s early 50s 2-tone Leisure suits/wrap jackets lend themselves to the practice... There's nothing as Kool as a "popped" Capri collar over a Dupioni silk jacket. But I have to agree... The shirt collar DID become grossly exaggerated by the late 1960s and into the 70s... Ruining a once-good idea.
Starched collars were not as dangerous as you make it out to be (I wear them, and they're very comfortable). If fitted correctly they are perfectly fine. It's the equivalent to calling corsets deadly, when infact it's been proven to be wrong hundred times before and are still used in medicine today. I should note that starched collars can also help with bad neck posture, as it did with me.
This channel taught me how to be more of a man than my own father. Thank you so much Gentleman's Gazette.. You've helped me elevate my life in ways I thought nearly impossible! You get a different type of respect when you wear a nice fitting suit!
I have to admit that some of the guys in the shown pictures really rocked that style though. I guess even terrible fashion styles can be done in a cool way if you know what you are doing
The brown suit looks OK on you Preston. Great video. Being as I AM 76 I can remember the 60's onwards fashion wise. I MUST SAY i did really like the MIAMI VICE - jOHNSON'S expensive casual silk jacket and expensive t-shits had a great look complemented by Thomas' dressy double breasted suits. Nothing at all wrong with that. Working retail on Oxford street in London 1970 -72 I MUST SAY i liked the three piece narrow suits we used to wear Really used to attract the birds!?!
Least we forget about the Leisure Suit! My Grandfather still owns his with matching polyester shirt with a massive collar. He puts it on as a joke sometimes... or a Halloween costume
As a guy who likes a lot of Industrial music - where the bands literally dress like this - I didn't mind them, I actually thought they looked pretty cool! I would totally wear one.
My grandmother went out with a teddy boy in the 1950s. She used to talk about his hair, his drainpipe trousers and the fact he was what we'd call a "hard man" (like a tough guy to Americans). I think they broke up after he got in trouble with the police. She herself got a haircut they called a DA (Duck's Arse) much to her own Victorian grandmother's horror
I disagree on the work uniform bit. It's no different than what people do now with field jacket/safari jackets. Even high end brands such as Balmain uses military uniforms as inspiration for their flagship products and there is nothing unfashionable about about it.
General Douglas MacArthur comes to my mind as a prime model for the matching work sets. His getup may seem strange to us modern men, but he successfully pulled off that bossy and intimidating, "down to business" look. I think it's quite manly.
Same. The work uniform was made for bricklayers, mechanics and other blue collars. Most didn't wear t-shirts and jeans to work as it was considered slopppy. Heck at that time most farmers were wearing collared shirts. The work uniform was something you could be seen in public with and was practical if boring. ( I imagine some men mixed colors as well) Great video BTW.
I actually like the matching work uniforms as well; however, I like it as simply that. The appearance also does make me think of the romanticized images of simpler times as shown by the image of the milk man.
How could you not mention the Zoot Suit of the late 1930's and early 1940's. With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg-leg pants. Think of the fashions of Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, my Uncle Lloyd and the movie Malcolm X with Denzel Washington and Spike Lee dancing the jitterbug at the dance hall. High fashion for POC!!
Great video. Like others, I would like to see you cover the 70s in more detail, with such items as leisure suits, the so-called non-suit or un-suit, and chains. Actually, many of the 60s and 70s fashions look good compared to the grunge and t-shirt yoga pants uniforms of today. Indeed, in many ways, the 60s and 70s had a more free-wheeling feel than today. Another idea might be to take a look at the Rat Pack members and how their fashions changed over the years. A good example is Sammy Davis Jr. Thanks for all your videos. Keep up the good work.
I love these videos but I was wondering if you guys could put together one showing the specific tailoring styles of all the decades to help people decide which era of tailoring they want to follow. I know I'm at the point where I am trying to find which era I want to follow for my suits.
I am disappointed that you did not mention platform shoes from the 70's. I can still remember one daft lad with 4 inch platform shoes trying to climb a flight of steps.
Preston, you are the perfect guide for this amusing skip along the long and winding Yellow Brick Road of men's fashion oddities and curiosities of the past century. Grazie mille!
There's something missing in 1990's time: the plateau boots! I remember quite well, that some "trendy" people wore Sneakers with absurdely high entire plateaus.
I think that where fashion really went wrong- certainly in the U.S.- was when we started wearing clothing with advertisements- words, pictures, brand names- splashed across every type of clothing, every kind of accessory imaginable. It's distracting and doesn't age well (not that I'm innocent of this). I know that European visitors to the United States have wondered why everybody here is walking around in gym clothes, overly casual and festooned with logos. Personally, I thought the Teddy Boys didn't look too awful: they reminded me of the New Wave.
13:10 NO! I will NOT pardon that pun, Preston! It was a good, well delivered pun and i will not have you insulate it with that expression! Pun lives matter!
Whoa whoa there tiger! The power suits of the 80's weren't that much an affront to good fashion. I even went to college dressed like that. Those ample jackets were like portable RC's in the summer. And it was also about the type of fabrics that were popular these days, making those suits very comfortable. Lots of viscose, linen, wool, terlenka, silk and cashmere for ties. I had Valentino, Bogey, XYZ, Addy Riviera suits. Roberto Botticelli shoes. Of course the Miami Vice series had a lot of influence too (shees, Don Johnson was practically wearing women's clothing every episode).
Reviewbrah agrees. It does look really good, as long as it fits you well. The alternative is to look like you are a used car retailer that bough the suit for 15$
Agree,..Miami Vice is WHY a lot of men even cared about Fashion and style to begin with,..both then AND now LoL! before Don Johnson you'd never find any American man who considered himself masculine wearing pink LoL!
This was a great video... I rock my Oxford Bags every chance I get... 😁 I like the big pants... Additionally, I learned about the Teddy Boys... I had never ever come across this style before.. But fascinating for 2 reasons.. 3 reasons! I'm from Texas, some people wear Bolo Ties. I'm also, 5th generation American of Mexican Origin, some still wear Zoot Suits. And I grew up in the late 80s and into the 90s when Creeper Shoes were popular... I think I'll go ahead and buy some creepers now! Thanks Gazette, and thank you Preston! Hasta la Vista, Baby!
@@lanceroparaca1413 of course they are different, separated by thousands of miles and an Atlantic Ocean. Look at the timeline... Clearly, Zoot Suits came after the teddy's... Consider Chicano culture in Japan... Maybe a bit antiquated in the states now, but clearly alive and well in Japan. Fashion can transcend time, can trancend cultures. Becoming unique as different cultures take it on. Think bigger buddy, as small as the world is being at our finger tips... We are still thousands of miles apart.
@@danielrios8693 I live in Japan and didn't know that about Chicano culture (I didn't even know Chicano was still a word!). Maybe it just seems natural and I don't notice it??
Somewhat unconsciously, I have acquired a lot of familiarity with upper class men's fashion of the early decades of the last century. This is because I am a fan of P.G. Wodehouse, and his Bertie and Jeeves stories. Bertie would always describe in great detail the clothing he wore, and in fact in most of the stories, an item of clothing was an important plot point. Frequently, Jeeves, the valet, would be offended by some new item that Bertie insisted on wearing, against Jeeves's objection. After Jeeves's would invariably extract his master from some pickle, he would be rewarded by being allowed to trash the offending object. On a different subject, I was very much around in the seventies, and never saw any of those dog ear collars. I do remember some bad styles from the 60s and 70s that weren't mentioned.
In the late 60's and early 70's, if I chose to wear denim jeans they were bell bottoms and not a dark wash. I wore short sleeved white linen shirts or yellow t-shirts with jeans. I like the 40's and 50's style of menswear worn by the movie stars. Pleated, high rise trousers with cuffs. I wear those kinds of trousers today but I am not a movie star.
Yes! I agree with the commenter that certain jobs (in the US) should require them. On visits home (to the US) I would mistake guys who came to fix pipelines or whatever as burglars or something; dressed in their dirty jeans and workshirts...
1970s were the worst. Polyester, big ties and collars, and safari suits to name a few. The 80s had parachute pants but the Miami Vice look was cool. Still love Crockett and Tubbs. .
Unfortunately yes, I did see a few people with them on. The only thing I never seen anyone wear in the 70s, that they mentioned was the dog ear collars
I`m 65 , and I have never seen dog ear collars ! LOL as for the mullet of the 80`s it originated a good two centuries earlier , when it was a regular military haircut !
@Napoleon XXIII. Paul Hogan had Working Class Style by the bucket load, He started his career in Australia doing a series of humouros routines, on the TV Show of a Media Identity. While he was never a "Second Bannana" he worked in a team with "Strop" and Delvine Delany, whom I think Strop married. But Paul Hogan just oozed self confidence, while all of the time maintaining the persona of his Day Job which was either a Rigger or a Painter, working on Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge. Then he wrote and starred in Crocodile Dundee, the most successful film ever made in Australia, And he looked good in shorts because he was "Work Fit". Phil.
I used to wear suits quite a lot when I was in my early 20s... But when I became part of the metal scene and joined the paramedics, my style changed to combat boots, t-shirts and jeans... Watching this channel makes me feel like getting a nice suit and proper hat again :-D
I was fascinated to hear you describe the Teddy-Boy Edwardian look as a very British thing. As it was the look for guys into Rock n' Roll, a famous American export, I always thought it originated there.
This presentation was so nice. Deepest gratitude to you all. Today it is hot and humid here in NYC. The suits are just just fine when Temps drop a bit here. I appreciate you all.
I beg to differ about the "Oxford bags" (within reason of course), glamorized by magazine covers illustrated by John Held Jr. I still think they look rather cool! I entered the 70s as a 15 year old and eventually and reluctantly started wearing bell bottoms but got hooked (partly due to increasing lack of options as time went on!). At that age I was unaware that fashions change and thought bell bottoms and long pointy collars, wide lapels and ridiculously wide ties were here to stay and I didn't mind. It wasn't till the mid eighties that I noticed bell bottoms were not forever! I still prefer wearing airy pants; guess I'm biased. I wonder if it's generational??
What i would consider a bit of a fashion fail in the early 1900's was the rah rah suit, very ridiculous wide sack suit with massive padded hips on the pants and silly ornamental pocket flaps and sleeve cuffs, it lasted right up to ww1. Right after ww1 right about 1921-22 came the second fashion fail witch was the jazz suit, it had really high 3 buttons that were kissing and had a really high waist, the top waistcoat button would usually be where the bottom jacket button was and it was popular for there to be a massive gap between the waistcoat and pants as it was popular to wear really low waisted pants with the jazz suit, the pants would also either be too short, too long or bell bottoms. Pretty wacky, hard to find images of it online tho, the villan in Buster Keaton's film "Sherlock junior" wore a jazz suit so you can see it there :)
I prefer the bright colors of the late 60's and 70's as long as they were used tastefully. I never did like the preponderance of dark colors in the early 60's or the lack of flair. The real horrors in fashion started in the mid-1990's and continues to deteriorate to this day. People are dressing down entirely too much and too far down into appearing indistinguishable from the homeless.
No, no, no, no, no - the 1960s and 1970s were wonderful because of the bright colours and patterns! There is much to be said for 19th and 20th century "smartness" in mens' dress, but in the end, the really stylish eras of mens' dress is anything before the 19th century, when men wore bright colours and dazzling jewellery!
Stubbies shorts were part of our school uniform in the 80’s !! First school was Brown second was grey. They weren’t very comfortable either and for swimming the thick material would soak so much water !!
Oxford bags were specifically designed to be worn over plus 4s, which were banned from being worn in class by the faculty at Oxford. Ergo: Oxford bags. They could easily be slipped off when not in class. I'm disappointed that the information wasn't included in your presentation.
Those Oxford bags are what the Peaky Blinders actually wore (at least based on what I've read). Good thing the show's costume designers kept that little detail out.
5:10 besides double breastfed jackets and cuffed pants, waistcoats fell out of favor. In the prior decades, suits had high waisted slacks, held up by suspenders, and the vest was meant to smooth out the look. With fabric rationing, the waistband was trimmed lower, and the vest was eliminated till after the war.
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At 84, I feel like I have just spent an hour watching a rerun of my life, that inculuded wearing detachable collars, when I was a Junior Bank Officer working with the ANZ Bank Relieving Staff, where the detachable collar kept me looking smart while I was doing a lot of travelling. And in the 1970s I thought I look very smart with the broad lapels and wide cuffs. Phil
Wow how intresting.
Haha lol what parts of your old “fashionable” pieces do you still have Mr.Moodie?
Broad, or at least “moderate” lapels need to make a comeback, it’s hard to find a jacket off the rack, or even made-to-measure with more than a 3”, or even 2.75” lapel. Something half-way decent almost NEEDS to be bespoke or vintage thesedays, I’m in my 30s and I’m afraid by the time I’m around your age, or even younger than that…I worry I won’t be able to buy a suit off the rack anywhere, regardless of its level of quality.
@@ChipsChallenge95 Lapels get wider and skinnier, buttoning points/waistlines get higher and lower. It all depends on the body type.
God Bless you buddy !
The matching work sets look actually good and compared to today the 1940's work sets look amazing.
Yeah, with the interest in tailored fits and men's hair styling/grooming over recent years, they would work quite well for plenty of guys.
My dad wore those all of his working life. he always looked sharp and professional.
Seriously, you guys could've just done a 45-minute episode on the fails of the 70s alone. Thanks for another great video, Preston et al!
70s, in my estimation, were an attempt to introduce native indigenous wardrobe and re-introduce the 1700's high fallutin' ostentatious flowy rufflly garb of the European Courts but wuth a twist for the modern era.
The library at the California State Los Angeles campus has a large collection of fashion magazines of the 70's, and I find that the upper class wore some of the best TAILORED CLOTHES EVER SEEN.
Compare them to what Real Housewives Shows wear at the "Reunion" shows.
These Real Houewives ladies dress like street harlots sometimes at the reunions.
Take a look at 1970's photos of Steve McQueen at parties, and Patricia Altschul 1970's personal photos at parties: IMPECCABLE.
The 80s were far worse than the 70s
@@darleschickens7106 , only if you'd had too many psychedelics in the 60s.
@@demspunkdamerica3rdbananar207 The 70's corrected the Stiff necked sillyness of the 60's. And if anything punked America it was DJT.
What are you talking about, looking around they are bringing the "Seventies" back!
I remember my grandfather wearing the 1940-60s style 'work uniform'. As a kid I thought he looked like a police officer though he was actually a milk man. LoL That said he and his coworkers as well as other workers looked far more professional than workmen have in the last four or five decades.
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months"-Oscar Wilde.
Ah the 70’s. Me in 1974 wearing my Michael Jackson inspired attire while my father wore crushed velvet sport coats flair legged plaid pants with 3 inch cuff. Grandfather was in solid color jumpsuits. Uncle favored leisure suits. We all were confident and in style.
Marquis Wallace And the ladies? Any memory of them?
"60s, 70s, 80s terrible fashion choices" honestly... my favourite in fashion era 🤣
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My father was a Teddy Boy and for a time wore a genuine Edwardian suit which he was given by an elderly neighbour who had kept it since his youth. It was black, apparently it fitted like a glove and was the envy of my dad's friends.
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That's amazing! An actual Edwardian suit! The era was only 40 years away, anyway.
Covering the 70’s would take a year alone.
More like a decade
A painful painful decade… of horror.
After all, the 70s aren’t exactly known for aging well, although the cars weren’t that bad looking
Forgot leisure suits
@@martinelmore6018 We wish to forget them.
I like the bright 60s clothing, body shirts, and short shorts. I get that it's too much for some people, but one thing they're not is bland. So so much of men's clothing is in dark, muted, or neutral colors and simple or boxy cuts. Men's clothing is often so unimaginative and dull it puts me to sleep. I'm not knocking suits/"classic" things at all, they look great and you should wear them if you like them! But color, loud prints, decorative elements, interesting cuts and materials, and breaking the rules of fashion are for 100% you too if you want. Whatever you wear, you deserve to feel good in it!
Agreed!
Definitely agree
I must disagree about the 40's work wear. I'd much rather see that than the current trend of going to work looking like they dressed out of a rag bag. 😕 I wish my current employer had a uniform service. It looks very professional, even if not really an exciting look.
Plus it eliminates the conundrum of finding a clean outfit that you're comfortable ruining at work, while still abiding by the company dress code...
I agree
Yeah, i think it looks good. Society would look better lol
also if its company policy, they need to replace it, allowing you to buy better garments for your own time.
It allows the clients you serve to EASILY identify you as an employee, especially if it’s a business that services the home or office.
One of my colleague asked me once, (who noticed that I usually wear suit pants), is there something between jeans and suit pants? He wanted to wear something a bit more professional looking, but not too fancy. I answered, sure, look for chinos and khaki pants. He was genuinely amazed, that plain cloth pants are exists and also look nice. He instantly bought a few pairs. Jeans have such a monopoly, people are basically know nothing else.
You forgot the disco era, tight polyester shirts with big collars, open to the waist, chains around the neck and way too tight high waisted pants and platform shoes, you forgot those.
The worst!
@@crystalheart9 best* 😁
@@teddy5236 Ok, Best💖
wrong. those were the best
Can't believe that you didn't include the atrocious polyester leisure suits of the '70s!
the worst part is they still make full polyester suits, and people still buy them.
Absolutely!
@@36424567254 Topman
Those were felonious
Never stand next to an open flame wearing one of those horrid leisure suits. Especially if it's powder blue.
Gentlemen in the 30's, 40's and even 50's were far more elegant than today. It's great to watch old London town in mid 20 century movies. Such a fashionable place and with a clearly identifiable culture and people.
I remember hippies too well to have any nostalgia for them. Lennon took Gerorge Harrison to Haight Asbury to show him the hope for a new world, and Harrison said it looked like a collection of winos that smoked their drugs instead of drinking them.
Harrison said the SF kids all looked homeless.
"Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Hey Aqualung!"
Harrison has been under appreciated.
When you have Preston in these kind of videos, get ready for some elegant and beautifully delivered roasts.
Boy, the burns...
being called a peasant for tennis socks is what got me into these videos XD
One day I would love to see you cover the kilt and all its accessories. I always found them classy and bold.
My grandfather, who would be well into his 100s if he were still living, wore his green work sets for decades. That alone vouches for how well made and durable the pieces were. Those pants and shirts withstood many years of hard use on construction sites, doing yardwork, fixing cars, and gardening. The young kids in the neighborhood used to call him Mr. Green Jeans.
Several years ago we got a new boss. His first order of business was that the maintenance crew wear uniforms. What a difference it made. Made for a professional, well put together team. The tenants also felt safer knowing that any bum off the street couldn't stroll around in street clothes posing as maintenance. Great job Gents!!
Am I alone in thinking the '80s "power suits" weren't that bad? ...maybe even, sometimes attractive?
David Bowie sure knew how to rock an '80s suit.
Don Johnson👍
Power suits may the worst rule breaker, but its look were the best!
But I mean... David Bowie can rock anything lol
The roominess makes them look comfortable. Far preferable to what is popular now.
Can confirm that there's still a few old boys who never gave up the Teddy Boy look and you can still see them I some pubs.
They certainly aren't common, but you certainly won't miss them.
Even if they're wearing modern clothes, the hair cut persists.
Here in the states it lives on in The Rockabilly culture
@@eviljoker303 Like country musicians Marty Stuart and Dale Watson
In the 80’s I remember that the trends changed every week, I worked in a department store in a mall so I could see the trends all the time. I had to wear a suit at work and I couldn’t afford an expensive one so I bought two black 80’s suits but they were not long with padded collars. They were both high waisted tailored one was double breasted and one was like a tuxedo and I wore them with really skinny ties. I had a very slim build so these suits looked great on me. But I do remember parachute pants and aviator clip belts and neon colored shirts and padded quilted shiny fabric shoes.
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I thought that the matching work sets from the 1940s looked fitting and clean.
Im not gonna lie, I kinda actually kinda like the matching work-wear one
same
I didn't expect to see Mono in a gentleman video, lol
Nooooo!!
Worse of 21st are leggings and ultra slim clowny pants!
BTW you forgot the tertible shirt collars over suit collars of the Disco era.
That really started in the late 50s and carried over to the late 70s disco. The ultra large ones are particularly silly
I would love to see Preston dressed as John Travolta in Saturday Night Live!
The shirt collar worn over the jacket's collar became a 'thing' in the late-30s with what were known then as "Hepsters", who became "Hipsters" by the 1950s.
It's really not a bad look if done properly... The later 40s early 50s 2-tone Leisure suits/wrap jackets lend themselves to the practice... There's nothing as Kool as a "popped" Capri collar over a Dupioni silk jacket.
But I have to agree... The shirt collar DID become grossly exaggerated by the late 1960s and into the 70s... Ruining a once-good idea.
Starched collars were not as dangerous as you make it out to be (I wear them, and they're very comfortable). If fitted correctly they are perfectly fine. It's the equivalent to calling corsets deadly, when infact it's been proven to be wrong hundred times before and are still used in medicine today.
I should note that starched collars can also help with bad neck posture, as it did with me.
As a 90s kid I enjoyed 90s fashion. I wore my fair share of polos and button up shirts with jeans and tennis shoes
This channel taught me how to be more of a man than my own father. Thank you so much Gentleman's Gazette.. You've helped me elevate my life in ways I thought nearly impossible! You get a different type of respect when you wear a nice fitting suit!
I have to admit that some of the guys in the shown pictures really rocked that style though.
I guess even terrible fashion styles can be done in a cool way if you know what you are doing
I’m not gonna lie, I’d wear the pants at 10:53
One late 80s trend you missed, and one that I myself was a victim of… leather ties.
"Sorry, Raphael, you don't pay me enough to make me talk about body suits"
The brown suit looks OK on you Preston. Great video. Being as I AM 76 I can remember the 60's onwards fashion wise. I MUST SAY i did really like the MIAMI VICE - jOHNSON'S expensive casual silk jacket and expensive t-shits had a great look complemented by Thomas' dressy double breasted suits. Nothing at all wrong with that. Working retail on Oxford street in London 1970 -72 I MUST SAY i liked the three piece narrow suits we used to wear Really used to attract the birds!?!
I’ve always liked the 40s work uniforms
Honestly the matching work sets look better than a lot of work wear today
Least we forget about the Leisure Suit! My Grandfather still owns his with matching polyester shirt with a massive collar. He puts it on as a joke sometimes... or a Halloween costume
My favourite eras of fashion are 60s-80s 😅
The Gentlemen’s Gazette has diagnosed me with questionable fashion sense lol
Fashion trends that were “particularly egregious.” That’s a very polite way of putting it. My choice of words would be decidedly more profane.
Honestly, some of those matching work suits don‘t look that bad. I wouldn’t mind wearing that green one at 7:29.
As a guy who likes a lot of Industrial music - where the bands literally dress like this - I didn't mind them, I actually thought they looked pretty cool! I would totally wear one.
My grandmother went out with a teddy boy in the 1950s. She used to talk about his hair, his drainpipe trousers and the fact he was what we'd call a "hard man" (like a tough guy to Americans). I think they broke up after he got in trouble with the police. She herself got a haircut they called a DA (Duck's Arse) much to her own Victorian grandmother's horror
Zoot suits had a certain charm, my pet hate is the ‘80s habit of pushing jacket sleeves over the elbow.
The Stubbies, sleeveless shirt and high socks was Paul Hogan 😀😀😀😀
I disagree on the work uniform bit. It's no different than what people do now with field jacket/safari jackets. Even high end brands such as Balmain uses military uniforms as inspiration for their flagship products and there is nothing unfashionable about about it.
General Douglas MacArthur comes to my mind as a prime model for the matching work sets. His getup may seem strange to us modern men, but he successfully pulled off that bossy and intimidating, "down to business" look. I think it's quite manly.
Same. The work uniform was made for bricklayers, mechanics and other blue collars. Most didn't wear t-shirts and jeans to work as it was considered slopppy. Heck at that time most farmers were wearing collared shirts. The work uniform was something you could be seen in public with and was practical if boring. ( I imagine some men mixed colors as well)
Great video BTW.
I actually like the matching work uniforms as well; however, I like it as simply that. The appearance also does make me think of the romanticized images of simpler times as shown by the image of the milk man.
Surprised you didn't mention the ties of the 90's. I'm personally a big fan of 90's ties, but I know a lot of people aren't
I'm a big fan of them too
Especially the outrageous Rush Limbaugh ties! I still wear them.
I knew JNCO Jean's was copying a past style, now I can confirm it.
Oxford Bags.
Interesting...
How could you not mention the Zoot Suit of the late 1930's and early 1940's. With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg-leg pants. Think of the fashions of Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, my Uncle Lloyd and the movie Malcolm X with Denzel Washington and Spike Lee dancing the jitterbug at the dance hall. High fashion for POC!!
I still can't seem to be ok with wearing jeans below a suit jacket
Great video. Like others, I would like to see you cover the 70s in more detail, with such items as leisure suits, the so-called non-suit or un-suit, and chains. Actually, many of the 60s and 70s fashions look good compared to the grunge and t-shirt yoga pants uniforms of today. Indeed, in many ways, the 60s and 70s had a more free-wheeling feel than today. Another idea might be to take a look at the Rat Pack members and how their fashions changed over the years. A good example is Sammy Davis Jr. Thanks for all your videos. Keep up the good work.
Preston’s reaction at the mention of the bodysuits - that is classic!
I love these videos but I was wondering if you guys could put together one showing the specific tailoring styles of all the decades to help people decide which era of tailoring they want to follow. I know I'm at the point where I am trying to find which era I want to follow for my suits.
Some great clothes in the 70s , men's coats were cool and still are.
All clothes I have come from 70s or 60s and had the perfect quality and fit for me.
Those boring styles are classic and good looking....the whole less is more!
I am disappointed that you did not mention platform shoes from the 70's. I can still remember one daft lad with 4 inch platform shoes trying to climb a flight of steps.
Preston, you are the perfect guide for this amusing skip along the long and winding Yellow Brick Road of men's fashion oddities and curiosities of the past century. Grazie mille!
Come on Preston, Crockett looks awesome!
There's something missing in 1990's time: the plateau boots! I remember quite well, that some "trendy" people wore Sneakers with absurdely high entire plateaus.
I think that where fashion really went wrong- certainly in the U.S.- was when we started wearing clothing with advertisements- words, pictures, brand names- splashed across every type of clothing, every kind of accessory imaginable. It's distracting and doesn't age well (not that I'm innocent of this). I know that European visitors to the United States have wondered why everybody here is walking around in gym clothes, overly casual and festooned with logos.
Personally, I thought the Teddy Boys didn't look too awful: they reminded me of the New Wave.
13:10 NO! I will NOT pardon that pun, Preston! It was a good, well delivered pun and i will not have you insulate it with that expression! Pun lives matter!
Whoa whoa there tiger! The power suits of the 80's weren't that much an affront to good fashion. I even went to college dressed like that. Those ample jackets were like portable RC's in the summer. And it was also about the type of fabrics that were popular these days, making those suits very comfortable. Lots of viscose, linen, wool, terlenka, silk and cashmere for ties. I had Valentino, Bogey, XYZ, Addy Riviera suits. Roberto Botticelli shoes. Of course the Miami Vice series had a lot of influence too (shees, Don Johnson was practically wearing women's clothing every episode).
The ultra long suit jackets reminiscent of the Edwardian era in a way came back again in the “Steve Harvey suits”.
Power suits are superb, as long as they fit properly. And so was Miami Vice type of fashion. There, i said it.
Completely agree, I’ve bought a couple of vintage 80s power suits from EBay that fit well on me and I love wearing them
Reviewbrah agrees.
It does look really good, as long as it fits you well. The alternative is to look like you are a used car retailer that bough the suit for 15$
Agree,..Miami Vice is WHY a lot of men even cared about Fashion and style to begin with,..both then AND now LoL! before Don Johnson you'd never find any American man who considered himself masculine wearing pink LoL!
1940s workwear is very cool imo.
Normally I’d agree with you, but I really like the matching work wear
You forgot Axe Body spray and parachute pants.
This was a great video...
I rock my Oxford Bags every chance I get... 😁 I like the big pants... Additionally, I learned about the Teddy Boys... I had never ever come across this style before.. But fascinating for 2 reasons.. 3 reasons! I'm from Texas, some people wear Bolo Ties. I'm also, 5th generation American of Mexican Origin, some still wear Zoot Suits. And I grew up in the late 80s and into the 90s when Creeper Shoes were popular... I think I'll go ahead and buy some creepers now! Thanks Gazette, and thank you Preston! Hasta la Vista, Baby!
But Pachucos are different to Teddys
@@lanceroparaca1413 of course they are different, separated by thousands of miles and an Atlantic Ocean. Look at the timeline... Clearly, Zoot Suits came after the teddy's...
Consider Chicano culture in Japan... Maybe a bit antiquated in the states now, but clearly alive and well in Japan. Fashion can transcend time, can trancend cultures. Becoming unique as different cultures take it on. Think bigger buddy, as small as the world is being at our finger tips... We are still thousands of miles apart.
@@danielrios8693 I live in Japan and didn't know that about Chicano culture (I didn't even know Chicano was still a word!). Maybe it just seems natural and I don't notice it??
I love the teddy boys fashion.
Somewhat unconsciously, I have acquired a lot of familiarity with upper class men's fashion of the early decades of the last century. This is because I am a fan of P.G. Wodehouse, and his Bertie and Jeeves stories. Bertie would always describe in great detail the clothing he wore, and in fact in most of the stories, an item of clothing was an important plot point. Frequently, Jeeves, the valet, would be offended by some new item that Bertie insisted on wearing, against Jeeves's objection. After Jeeves's would invariably extract his master from some pickle, he would be rewarded by being allowed to trash the offending object.
On a different subject, I was very much around in the seventies, and never saw any of those dog ear collars. I do remember some bad styles from the 60s and 70s that weren't mentioned.
Hello, fellow Wodehouse fan here, and I'm actually here because I always try to learn more about what his characters would wear!
I hate skinny jeans and hated the baggy pants of the 90’s.
In the late 60's and early 70's, if I chose to wear denim jeans they were bell bottoms and not a dark wash. I wore short sleeved white linen shirts or yellow t-shirts with jeans. I like the 40's and 50's style of menswear worn by the movie stars. Pleated, high rise trousers with cuffs. I wear those kinds of trousers today but I am not a movie star.
The first 1960s clothing trend the Body Shirt was a staple of the British Mods subculture.
6:10 Those “work sets” still exist in Japan, you know.
Yes! I agree with the commenter that certain jobs (in the US) should require them. On visits home (to the US) I would mistake guys who came to fix pipelines or whatever as burglars or something; dressed in their dirty jeans and workshirts...
1970s were the worst. Polyester, big ties and collars, and safari suits to name a few. The 80s had parachute pants but the Miami Vice look was cool. Still love Crockett and Tubbs. .
Did any men actually wear the 70's body suits/rompers (the best/worst ones were crocheted)??
Unfortunately yes, I did see a few people with them on.
The only thing I never seen anyone wear in the 70s, that they mentioned was the dog ear collars
I`m 65 , and I have never seen dog ear collars ! LOL as for the mullet of the 80`s it originated a good two centuries earlier , when it was a regular military haircut !
Wear dog ear collars its more a artistic thing.
Paul hogan at 42 second mark looked glorious.
@Napoleon XXIII. Paul Hogan had Working Class Style by the bucket load, He started his career in Australia doing a series of humouros routines, on the TV Show of a Media Identity. While he was never a "Second Bannana" he worked in a team with "Strop" and Delvine Delany, whom I think Strop married. But Paul Hogan just oozed self confidence, while all of the time maintaining the persona of his Day Job which was either a Rigger or a Painter, working on Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge. Then he wrote and starred in Crocodile Dundee, the most successful film ever made in Australia, And he looked good in shorts because he was "Work Fit". Phil.
Hoges would have verbally torn strips off this bloke, had him weeping into his Campari and soda and exiting the bar with his tail between his legs.
Oxford bag wearers were around 70 years ahead of the times.
The fall colors look amazing with your coloring. Delightful choice!
1930s was the golden era of men's clothing and style 👍
I used to wear suits quite a lot when I was in my early 20s... But when I became part of the metal scene and joined the paramedics, my style changed to combat boots, t-shirts and jeans...
Watching this channel makes me feel like getting a nice suit and proper hat again :-D
As a kid of the 80s and early-90s, I have to confess a soft spot for the power suit and feathered hair look.
I was fascinated to hear you describe the Teddy-Boy Edwardian look as a very British thing. As it was the look for guys into Rock n' Roll, a famous American export, I always thought it originated there.
This presentation was so nice. Deepest gratitude to you all. Today it is hot and humid here in NYC. The suits are just just fine when Temps drop a bit here. I appreciate you all.
I always knew the Teddy Boy creeper shoes as brothel creepers :)
So many more. Zoot suits, Nehru jackets, torn jeans, suspenders worn below the belt, Zubaz pants, etc. etc.
That was fun and funny, well done gentlemen. Thank you 🤘
I beg to differ about the "Oxford bags" (within reason of course), glamorized by magazine covers illustrated by John Held Jr. I still think they look rather cool! I entered the 70s as a 15 year old and eventually and reluctantly started wearing bell bottoms but got hooked (partly due to increasing lack of options as time went on!). At that age I was unaware that fashions change and thought bell bottoms and long pointy collars, wide lapels and ridiculously wide ties were here to stay and I didn't mind. It wasn't till the mid eighties that I noticed bell bottoms were not forever! I still prefer wearing airy pants; guess I'm biased. I wonder if it's generational??
What i would consider a bit of a fashion fail in the early 1900's was the rah rah suit, very ridiculous wide sack suit with massive padded hips on the pants and silly ornamental pocket flaps and sleeve cuffs, it lasted right up to ww1. Right after ww1 right about 1921-22 came the second fashion fail witch was the jazz suit, it had really high 3 buttons that were kissing and had a really high waist, the top waistcoat button would usually be where the bottom jacket button was and it was popular for there to be a massive gap between the waistcoat and pants as it was popular to wear really low waisted pants with the jazz suit, the pants would also either be too short, too long or bell bottoms. Pretty wacky, hard to find images of it online tho, the villan in Buster Keaton's film "Sherlock junior" wore a jazz suit so you can see it there :)
I prefer the bright colors of the late 60's and 70's as long as they were used tastefully. I never did like the preponderance of dark colors in the early 60's or the lack of flair. The real horrors in fashion started in the mid-1990's and continues to deteriorate to this day. People are dressing down entirely too much and too far down into appearing indistinguishable from the homeless.
Yeah, you tuck in any shirt in these days and people think you’re going to a Galla or something
Fashion of Summer 2021: Don't dress. Just wear your underwear--everywhere.
@@sagittarius1343 😂
@@sagittarius1343 true fashionistas would wear a matching mask, of course! ;o)
@@jimnielsen8030 Correct, a face diaper.
No, no, no, no, no - the 1960s and 1970s were wonderful because of the bright colours and patterns! There is much to be said for 19th and 20th century "smartness" in mens' dress, but in the end, the really stylish eras of mens' dress is anything before the 19th century, when men wore bright colours and dazzling jewellery!
I am surprised you didn't mention the disco trend of the 70s.
love 80s suits. you got that one wrong
THAT FIT CHECK AT THE END THOUGH 🥶 SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH 🥶 THAT FIT CHECK AT THE END THOUGH 🥶 SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH
Stubbies shorts were part of our school uniform in the 80’s !!
First school was Brown second was grey.
They weren’t very comfortable either and for swimming the thick material would soak so much water !!
Oxford bags were specifically designed to be worn over plus 4s, which were banned from being worn in class by the faculty at Oxford. Ergo: Oxford bags. They could easily be slipped off when not in class. I'm disappointed that the information wasn't included in your presentation.
Those Oxford bags are what the Peaky Blinders actually wore (at least based on what I've read). Good thing the show's costume designers kept that little detail out.
5:10 besides double breastfed jackets and cuffed pants, waistcoats fell out of favor. In the prior decades, suits had high waisted slacks, held up by suspenders, and the vest was meant to smooth out the look. With fabric rationing, the waistband was trimmed lower, and the vest was eliminated till after the war.
Just wait long enough for each style to come back again 🤩
I just love to rock my JNCO jeans daily. Life is too short to wear always boring regular cuts. Obviously IMHO and with all due respect 👌
Hippies are beautiful.✌🏼