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Photo Dating Just For Men's Fashions Contents of this page: Men's clothing by decades 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920
Photo Dating Notes:
Early 40s, remnant of the 1830s, black velvet collar, large big bow tie double breasted jacket, one button undone cutaway jacket turned down shirt collar narrow sleeves hair over the ears
Photo Dating Notes:
1825 -1840 cutaway jacket
black collar double breasted buttons, on button undone, narrow sleeves, appears to be a wrap around bow tie /cravat
1840 Photo Dating Notes:
Stand up shirt collar touching cheek large bow tie wide lapel, narrow sleeves hair over ears waistcoat/vest with shawl collar
posture sitting,
1840 Photo Dating Notes:
Stand up collar touching cheek shawl collar on waistcoat/vest cravat wide lapel hair over ears
1840 Photo Dating Notes:
stand up collar wide gap cravat/wrap around bowtie shawl waistcoat vest large lapels deep notch hair over ears no facial hair
1840 Photo Dating Notes:
Daguerreotype Mid 40s, wide lapels with "M" notch, turned down collar with wide gap cravat narrow sleeves; long hair
zoom of "M" notch on lapel
seen only in the early 40s
1840 Photo Dating Notes:
"M" notched lapel cravat bow shawl silk collar stand up collar with wide gap facial hair, chops
P. Huas, Washington City, 1843 Photo Dating Notes: wide "M' Lapel, stand up collar with wide gap
1844 Louis Daguerre, Photographer Photo Dating Notes: Mustache, cravat/bowtie, stand up collar with wide gap, waistcoat/vest with shawl collar
1844 James Brown Photo Dating Notes: black collar with wide lapels, matching plaid tie and waistcoat/vest with wide collar, hair combed forward, narrow sleeves.
1848 Photo Dating Notes:
cravat stand up collar with wide gap silk shawl collar waistcoat/vest hair over ears curtain beard along the jaw line
Plain background,
Variations of tying a cravat/wrap around bow tie.
1849 Zachary Taylor
Photo Dating Notes: stand up collar cravat fitted double breasted uniform
Plain background
1849 Edgar Allen Poe
Photo Dating Notes: turned down collar with wide gap. cravat, long hair combed forward, wide lapels, dark collar
narrow collar on the waistcoat/vest, top button done
Plain background
1850 Photo Dating Notes: coat and jacket oversized the look of the decade, banana sleeves stand up collar Trim around lapel square toed boots
Stabilizing stand behind feet, curtain and table props, plain background
1854 Prince Albert
Photo Dating Notes: Prince Albert and Victoria frock coat not matching pants turn down collar shawl collar waistcoat/vest pants with stirrups hair combed forward from the back chops and mustache
Plain background, appears to be flat gray like an ambrotype
Photo Dating Notes: 1855 Very tall top hats, big bow ties, turned down collars, wide lapels, walking stick, waitcoat/vest with shawl collar, one guy is clean shaven and the other a small mustache. Oh, and pants and jacket appear to be matching.
Don't forget to look at the physical attributes of each image, this appears to be a daguerreotype.
1855 Wilkes Booth
Photo Dating Notes: Trim around jacket collar and cuffs. mustache, full sleeve, knee length jacket. don't know the name of this hat, just know the varieties, not all wore top hats. the background is plain, just patterned floor, column and baluster.
1855 George Opdyke
Photo Dating Notes:
silk very tall top hat frock coat knee length with narrow lapels black velvet collar wide lapels tweed pants to floor mustache and chops, short hair combed forward at temples
Stabling stand behind him and holding chair curtain, pedestal and table props octagon design floor
1857
wide lapels tall top hats cravats curtain beards large full sleeves squared toe boots watch fob chains
1858 Library of Congress Photo. Photo Dating Notes: Daguerreotype large bow tie/cravat black velvet jacket collar short narrow jacket lapels facial hair long chops only
1860
Photo Dating Notes: narrow lapels turned down collar narrow bow tie double breasted jacket full sleeves chops facial hair
1860 Photo Dating Notes: Herman Melvin, author, Mobey Dick narrow lapels full fitting sleeves turned down collar bow tie full facial hair
1860 Photo Dating Notes: President Grant turned down collar narrow bow tie large lapels watch fob chain facial hair
1865 Photo Dating Notes: Mutton chops, wide lapels, bow tie, high closure on the waistcoat/vest embossed cartouche, tintype, business card size
Photograph is a Potter's Patent Tintype 1865. Photo Dating Notes: The Bow Tie,1865 was already in use by the invention of the photograph and still going strong in the late 1880s. The earlier version of the 1840 bow tie was larger and looser.
1870 Rutherford Hayes photo from 1870-1880 Photo Dating Notes: Wide lapels Waist coat /vest with shawl collar full beard
Victor Hugo 1876 Photo Dating Notes: Wide lapels, waist coat/vest 6 buttons to top, turn down collar watch fob, wide baggy sleeves, full facial hair, short hair.
1877 Henry OFlipper USMA Photo Dating Notes: usually uniforms have elements of the current trending style, like the size and shape of the sleeves or in this case the turned down collar with the gap getting smaller than in the past like 1840s. We have samples in other decades, of cadets in later years demonstrating this. Likewise civilian clothes often had elements of military trends, such as double pockets after WWI.
1878 Andrew Carnegie Photo Dating Notes: Very tall top hat, dark collar with wide lapels, full facial hair, short hair, bow tie, stand up collar and gloves.
1879 Bat Masterson Photo Dating Notes: narrow lapels, turned down collar, waist coat/vest 6 buttons to top, narrow sleeves, bowler hat has a short crown and curved brim full mustache, hair above the ears
1880 Photo Dating Notes: high waistcoat turned down collars narrow lapels short bowler long frock hip length jacket watch fob chains narrow bow ties four in hand long tie tucked in waistcoat/vest short hair facial hair
A stand up collar with turned corners, 1 ˝” deep. Worn from 1880-present day for formal wear developed many versions. The 2” high version was popular from 1890 to 1905. the extremely high collar and with more server points was favored by 1890 to 1905. Then a version called the butterfly wing of the 1920s and 30s, they were pretty much the same but the wings were pointy and bent outwards. Another collar that was similar was the but with double rounded turndown corners collar worn, from 1870-1940.
1880 Photo Dating Notes: first button on jacket the style hanky pocket first seen (new) flat short hair
1881 Photo Dating Notes: U.S. President, Chester Arthur 1881-1885. Notice the trim around the wide lapels of the 1880s.
1883
Photo Dating Notes: observe many kinds of hats in one era. 2 derbies/low crown bowlers 5 wideawake hats large brim low crown 1 appears to be soft felt hat like the homburg Original photograph of the 'Dodge City Peace Commission' in June 1883. Front, l-r; Chas. E. Bassett, Wyatt S. Earp, Frank McLain, and Neil Brown. Back, l-r; W. H. Harris, Luke Short, W. B. Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon. This is the version with Petillon beside Masterson. Resource and credit, Ford County Historical Society Dodge City Kansas.
1890 Photo Dating Notes: stand up wing tip four in hand large knot tie wide lapels short hair facial hair
standup collar small gap.
four in hand large knot stand up wing tip collar narrow lapels
1890 James Craig, Member for Glengarry, Ontario Legislative Assembly Photo Dating Notes:
In 1860, white was the choice color for most shirts and disposable collars and cuffs were worn and bow ties were popular for evening wear. One shirt and many collars is easy on the laundering and the appearance of more clothes. In the 1860's and 70's trousers were worn close to the leg and long enough to reach the heels of the shoes. The Sack Suit 1860-1890 The everyday common business suit. Appeared in the 1850s, usually four cloth covered buttons, one engaged at the top. It was more in style not to match color. Any hat could be worn with this suit with exception of the top hat. In the 1860 the became for fitted and in between morphed into the suit we know today. At the end of World War I (1914-1919). Men returning from the war faced closets full of clothes from the teens, which they wore into the early 1920s. The sack suit, which had been popular since the mid eighteen-hundreds, constituted appropriate “day” dress for gentlemen. (Edwardian etiquette commanded successive changes of clothing for gentlemen during the day.) With the suits, colored shirts of putty, peach, blue-gray and cedar were worn. Shaped silk ties in small geometric patterns or diagonal stripes were secured with tie pins and a black bowler hat. The tail coat was considered appropriate formal evening wear, with a top hat. Starched white shirts with pleated yokes, bow ties and shirts with white wing collars were also seen. Tuxedos were increasing in popularity but were not yet completely acceptable. Black patent-leather shoes were popular and often appeared with formal evening wear. Casual clothing demanded two-tone shoes in white and tan, or white and black. Fringed tongues on Oxfords and brogues were seen frequently. Lace-up style shoes were most in demand.
1898 Nelson A. Miles
uniform with standup collar metals facial hair is a handlebar mustache short hair, no sideburns
Research metals on military websites they are out there, I recognize a civil war metal on his chest. Every thing on him means something.
1897 1897-1901 US President William Mckinley Turned up collar Wide lapels with contrasting fabric, small bow tie
John Le Piere know date here, 1901 variation of a standup collar rounded tips ascot left off center part in flat hair
1904 left W.E.B. Du Bois wide lapel stand up wing tip collar ascot facial hair
1918 below narrow lapel turned down collar bow tie
1902-1910 Fashion Term: Turned down round collar
1920 In 1925 the era of the baggy pants dawned. This fashion would influence men's wear for three decades. Oxford bags were first worn by Oxford undergraduates, eager to circumvent the University’s prohibition on knickers. The style originated when knickers were banned in the classroom. As the bags measured anywhere from twenty-two inches to forty inches around the bottoms, they could easily be slipped on over the forbidden knickers. John Wanamaker introduced Oxford bags to the American public in the spring of 1925, although Ivy League students visiting Oxford in 1924 had already adopted the style. The trousers were originally made of flannel and appeared in shades of biscuit, silver gray, fawn, lovat, blue gray, and pearl gray. Collars and cuffs were made to be removable from 1860s through to 1930s. Because they wore under shirts the only contact places of the skin and shirt were at the collar and cuffs.
Stand up collar and cravat
A Straight 2" Stand Up collar worn from 1880-1920 for formal wear. High Imperial Collar - This 2˝” high collar was popular from 1890 to 1905 for formal wear.
The Cravat also originated these variants, still worn today: The Paisley patterned neck tie was adapted in India 1800s to 1850 soldiers brought them from the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire to Scotland, where the design was nicknamed Paisley and spread to shawls.
1880s Bow Tie. Zoomed in sample, below.
Ascot,1880s Traditionally patterned silk, formal, folded and fastened with a stickpin or tie tack. It is usually reserved for wear with morning dress or formal daytime weddings and worn with a cutaway morning coat and striped gray trousers. This type of dress cravat is made of a thicker, woven type of silk similar to a modern tie and is traditionally either gray or black. In British English a more casual "day cravat" is different from the highly formal dress cravat by ornate and colorful printed patterns.
same stand up collar, huge knot tie, short lapels.
Type: Card de visite Photo Dating Notes: Wide Lapels came back into fashion. Circa: 1871
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