I think he's had a go on the jazz cigarette your man on the left's got, or if it's cocaine, he's been injecting it directly into the eyeballs?
/\ you could be right Tommy .... the guy in the middle looks a little baked, he can't even stand up straight .... it seems as if they just saw a fine-looking young lady pass by and one is ogling her pop-eyed and the other is leaning over as he follows her progress .....
/\ awesome choice BB ... +1 on the shutters, window seat, sweatshirt, magic-markered name on the textbook .... .....
the guy looks like a cross between Greg Marmalard and Kevin Spacey
That's a GREAT thread, as the pre boom years east coast stuff is something that interests me for years now...
What we have is some Ivy stuff that definiteley mixes with fashion of the day as there are some wider shoulders (40s) and especially in the 30s more waist suppression than in the late 40s early 50s... and some pleated pants, too.
The 30s would see much more oxford shoes than bluchers or derbys, too.
What surprised me is the rather square, very modern fashion of now looking belt buckle in that 1949 ad, sided by also very modern hipsterish cordovan crepe sole derbys!
The split toes from 1948 and the brogues on one pic from 1946 also look interesting to me as they look VERY Austro-Hungarian (which backs up a theory I have had for a long time now)...
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