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#1 2008-09-22 19:02:59
- captainpreppy
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Trousers with belts on the back?
Anybody remember these? A lot of chinos and other pants during the late 1950s featured small, seemingly non-functional cloth belts sewn onto the back of the trousers an inch and half or so below the actual waistband. I don't know whether they were intended to be used for tweaking the final fit of the trousers or if they were purely decorative. I know that I and all my pals regarded them as decorative. I don't think anyone adjusted them.
They were regarded by hoi polloi, at any rate, as the very quintessence of "Ivy League" style. I think their heyday was around 1957-8 or thereabouts. Does anybody else have any memories or comments about this very "Ivy League" stylistic feature, short-lived though it may have been?
#2 2008-09-22 21:40:50
- Horace
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Re: Trousers with belts on the back?
Yes, I had one I later bought one or two from old Ralph. These were discussed on one of the threads on the main board. Maybe a RL thread or the random clothes quote thread.
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#3 2008-09-23 00:07:26
- captainpreppy
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Re: Trousers with belts on the back?
I am rather surprised they lasted long enough to be offered by Ralph. If memory serves, he got his operation going in 1967, but maybe the belted trousers were deliberately introduced as a retro item
#5 2008-09-23 04:24:51
- Richmond Hill
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Re: Trousers with belts on the back?
We used to sell them in the Squire Shop in the late 60s early seventies, with small flares when the Ivy League look went Continental or as John Simons once put it "Hairy Fairy".
RH
#7 2008-09-23 16:58:56
- rsmeyer
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Re: Trousers with belts on the back?
Many chinos those days had belts in the back; a true Ivy touch. Caps occasionally did too.
#8 2008-09-23 22:41:24
- Howard
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Re: Trousers with belts on the back?
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#14 2008-09-30 01:45:21
- Horace
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Re: Trousers with belts on the back?
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.