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40S-475
Price: SOLD
1940's TAN AND WHITE THREE BUTTON LORRAINE HASPEL SEERSUCKER SACK SUIT - INTERESTING ORIGINS
Seersucker three button single breasted 1940's vintage suit. Tan and white micro check cotton seersucker. Sack style jacket with medium notched lapels. Long sleeves with deep machine stitched cuffs. Three rounded patch pockets. Chest pocket applied at an angle. Small ticket pocket tucked inside lower right pocket. Original vented back appears professionally stitched closed. Jacket is self faced front, rayon faced back. Seams are rayon bound. Flat front pants with Conmar zipper at fly. Coin pocket at right waistband seam. Side seam pockerts. Button bound hip pocket. Rare and wonderful summer suit from the 1940's brought to you from Boyd-Richardson of St. Louis.
Pre-1950's vintage seersucker is very VERY rare. Perceived as "cheap", even though they were retailed by the likes of BROOKS BROS., seersucker suits were usually thrown away after two or three seasons of use. You will see a 1920's Original LORRAINE Seersucker suit in our archives. That suit belonged to the same gentleman who owned this suit. The fabric is identical and much of the tailoring elements are similar to the 20's suit.
Label:
"LORRAINE HASPEL, Genuine Lorraine Fabric, Haspel Tailored in New Orleans"
"BOYD-RICHARDSON, St. Louis"
"NORRIS B. GREGG, Jr."
(FYI: Norris B. Gregg, Sr. was president of Mound City Paint & Color Co., St. Louis and at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair he was Director of Admission and Concessions)
Approximate Measurements:
Jacket
Chest - 45"
Shoulder, measured from seam to seam across back yoke - 18 1/2"
Sleeve, measured from seam to cuff edge - 23"
Center back length, measured from collar fold to hem edge - 31 1/2"
Pants
Waist - 37" (plus 1" to let out)
Inseam length - 30"
Out-seam length - 42 1/2"
Cuff - 1 3/4"
Hem - 1"
Condition:
GOOD Condition. There is general wear to the jacket with a few small neat repairs at cuffs and faint age discolor at 2nd button. The pants also show some general wear with small neat repairs and faint age discolorations (which appears more pronounced in photographs). Not perfect, but amazing that it still survives, given it's "disposable" nature.
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