From 1910 on, shoes became more popular than boots, and about this year, the American Boston, or bull-dog toe was introduced. The “ tooth-pick“, a shoe of black or tan with a long pointed toe, was worn, though boots were correct for dress wear. This hat was of corded silk or merino and the crown was supported by a spiral spring that enabled the hat to collapse and fold quite flat. The top or silk hat was worn with the frock coat, morning coat and evening dress, but as the first two were replaced by the lounge suit, the top hat was less seen in the streets the boater, a flat-brimmed, flat-crowned straw hat worn in the summer and the opera hat, also known as a “Gibus” after its inventor.
Casual hats for the day included the Homburg, a stiff felt hat with a dented crown and turned-up silk-bound brim the Trilby, of a similar shape but with a softer felt and the Derby (Bowler in America), with either curved or flat sides. Hats were also dictated by fashion and time of day. Though not in widespread use until the Great War, it was an optional piece included in a typical officer’s kit. Made of gabardine, the trench coat, was invented by Thomas Burberry in 1901 as an alternative to the heavy serge greatcoats worn by British and French officers.
#Edwardian gentleman in an olive velvet pinstriped suit full#
Typical outwear consisted of the Chesterfield, a single-breasted coat of herringbone tweed with velvet collar the ulster, a slightly less-fashionable coat with shoulder cape or hood generally worn for travel the Raglan overcoat, a long and full coat of waterproof material, made with side seams to allow access to trouser pockets the Inverness cape, a waterproof coat with a cape-like front composed of two “wings” taking the place of sleeves and covering the arms–made of fur or fur-lined for motoring and mackintoshes, a raincoat of rubber, tweed, cotton, parramatta, etc. light blue for Cambridge, navy for Oxford). For cycling, shooting and golf, knickerbockers and plus-fours, a type of loose knee-breeches fastened at the knee with a band were favored, and for rowing, knit sweaters in team or school colors (e.g. Knits, flannel and tweeds were popular, with the color white most used for yachting, golf, tennis, cricket and polo. And of course each sport required its own set of clothing. This was the epoch of polo, cricket, shooting and hunting, and in the 1890s, such new sports such as tennis, football, golf, cycling and motoring. As the era progressed, the dinner jacket was increasingly cut on the lines of a lounge jacket, and from it emerged the “ tuxedo” (though this was the American term the Continental term was “Monte Carlo”).ĭue to Bertie’s fondness for lounge suits, sport jackets, Norfolk shooting jackets with front and back pleats, and knickerbockers in loud tweeds, there came a greater emphasis on comfort, and a greater obsession with sports. This was worn with a white shirt and a dark tie. There was also the choice to wear the dinner jacket if dressing for dinner at home or at a men’s club. The sleeves would end plain or with a cuff, and slit with two or three buttons also. In 1900, the tails were knee length and the front cut away square at the waist, with two or three buttons on each front. The dress coat was double-breasted with a cut-away front and two tails at the rear. Generally high of neck, with short lapels and double-breasted, the front curved away at the bottom.įor evening, men’s attire was strictly composed of a black dress coat, white waistcoat and trousers matching the coat. By the 1900s, the lounge jacket began to replace both the morning coat and frock coat. The frock coat, a double-breasted, knee-length coat of black or dark gray wool, was worn on formal morning occasions, though by the Edwardian era, it was more often seen on elderly men.
Morning dress consisted of a morning coat, which was almost always single-breasted, of serge, worsted, cheviot or vicuna, and black or iron-gray a waistcoat, either single- or double-breasted, which matched the coat or was of a lighter color striped spongebag trousers (trousers of wool serge, baggy at knee) a cravat and silk hat (though a bowler/Homburg could be worn). To be seen in London attired in nothing less was an affront to sartorial sensibilities. As with most things pertaining to the Edwardian era, the Prince of Wales heavily influenced not only what men wore, but when.įor day, morning dress was de rigueur. However, with the rise of sports such as hunting, yachting, cricket, polo and others, there came the introduction of sportswear. As it had since the turn of the nineteenth century, colors remained fairly dark, the only places allotted for color, the waistcoat, the sweater and the tie. Unlike women’s fashions, traditional articles of gentleman’s clothing changed very little the only concession to the passing of time were tiny details: a new cut to trousers, a new shape to a jacket, etcetera.
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