Heeding @die_workwear with a knee-length overcoat 

Vintage Coat: Polo University Club by Ralph Lauren, thrifted

Vintage Sport Coat: Brooks Brothers Brooksgate, thrifted

Vintage Roll Neck: Neiman Marcus, thrifted

Trousers: Canali, thrifted

Loafers: Rancourt & Co, Made in USA, eBay

A confused aroma of cheap clothing greeted him. Except for a small oasis behind a grubby counter, practically all the available space was occupied by suits. Stiff suits, looking like the body when discovered by the police, hung from hooks. Limp suits, with the appearance of having swooned from exhaustion, lay about on chairs and boxes. The place was a cloth morgue, a Sargasso Sea of serge.

More than once P.G. Wodehouse has one of his heroes runs for cover into a used clothing store, or a general used goods store, only to have him pounced on by the salesmen who load him up with things he doesn't in the last want or need, but is unable to resist.

Used clothing stores used to exist to help out those with a small budget who needed the formal clothing that all adult men wore in public spaces at one time or another. Such shops also existed because clothing was more expensive then it is now. Then was 1921 and the book was The Indiscretions of Archie, a good-natured but silly young man who foreshadows the character Bertie Wooster.

I so like the idea of a Sargasso Sea of serge in which poor Archie finds himself adrift because of yet another silly adventure gone wrong.

Drovers at the stickyards. South Omaha, Nebraska. John Vachon, Nov 1938 #vintagedenim #denim #vintageworkwear #vintagemenswear #vintagestyle #ruggedstyle #vintagephotography (at Omaha, Nebraska) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6sioDoysO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Another fabulous 50s coat just into the shop. Chocolate brown novelty tweed in amazing condition. Size M/L. Raglan sleeve to accommodate your big 1950s shoulder pads. Dry cleaned and ready to wear. $165. #50S #1950S #Rockabilly #coat #VintageCoat #Menswear #VintageMenswear #MensFashion #MensClothing #MensStyle #MensStylist #RichardsFabulousFinds #Haberdashery #VintageHaberdashery #Chicago (at Richards Fabulous Finds) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coco3yJLR7o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Vintage vibes with our tab collar shirt⁠ ⁠ #besnard #menswear #classicmenswear #msnwr #sartorial #tailoring #styleforum #tabcollar #vintagemenswear https://www.instagram.com/p/CikTc3hM3Pw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Step into timeless fashion with our Prince Aristocrat Vintage Men's Wear. Vintage charm meets modern style in this cascading ruffled lace long sleeve shirt. Perfect for parties and festivals, available in plus sizes.

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Don't live in SF but wanted to support @urbancomposition's appreciation of longer overcoats (was actually cool enough yesterday in LA). This vintage wool and cashmere example from Carroll & Co appears to be from the '80s or '90s. (Also, even though coats like this are easier to thrift in a place like SF than LA, props to the thrifters of The Yay, especially people like @urbancomposition and @brokeandbespoke--one of best from way back).

Coat: Carroll & Co, vintage, thrifted

Sweater: Pendleton, vintage, thrifted

OCBD: Brooks Brothers, thrifted

Trousers: Britches, thrifted

Loafers: Alden, eBay

Yale: The undergraduate, often with a Wall Street career in his future, already acts and dresses like the young broker type who haunts New York's Financial District.

This is from Esquire magazine in June of 1934 and tell us a couple of things about menswear during the Great Depression. First, that young college men were not trying out new fashions, and second, that the fashion they were wearing were those worn by older men, and third, that men have fashion which is something we often overlook as the shifts in women's fashions have been so much more dramatic. Clearly, any 1920s excitement about new looks like "bags"--goofily wide-legged trousers at the time--had petered out in favor of less novel ideas. And looking like a mature adult had become fashionable as well. Both perhaps because of the seriousness of the economic situation.

I found this quotation in an enormous tome entitled Esquire's Encyclopedia of 20th Century Men's fashions by O.E. Schoeffler and William Gale which came out in 1973.

This farmer owned one acre of land and a small improvised trailer in which he and his wife lived. The only place they could find to move to was a small farm they rented which had only a barn on it. Near Pacolet South Carolina region. Jack Delano, Mar 1941 #anvil #vintagedenim #vintageworkwear #vintagemenswear #vintagestyle #ruggedstyle #vintagephotography (at Pacolet, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZ_L39omHh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

We could never say no to a fabulous shawl neck cardigan. Instant 20s/30s appeal. Size M. Acrylic. $45. In-store. #Cardigan #VintageCardigan #VintageMenswear #Menswear #Richardsfabulousfinds #Chicago #Haberdashery #VintageHaberdashery #ShopSmall #ShopLocal #SmallBusiness (at Richards Fabulous Finds) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiQgvTTvCqH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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