"Thinking About Clothes? This Book Will Help" 1930 LEIGH, Dell
$750
LEIGH Dell
c1930
[16] pp.
11 1/4"H x 8 3/4"W
VG
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Norwich. Greens (Norwich) Limited. No date [c.1930]. Stitched green wrappers, tied with green cord, illustration pasted to front wrapper. [16 pages]. 8 colour illustrations, 3 with silver background, initialed in the image 'D.N.A.'. English. Very good; light shelf wear to wrappers, no tears, fading along spine and around edges.
A delightful trade catalogue of formal menswear fashion from the late 1920s/early 1930s.
The brochure was produced by Greens in Norwich to publicize their stocking of Maenson's ready-to-wear formal menswear.
The illustrations and text exemplify the fashions and language of the 1920s, lending a Bertie Wooster-ish element to the whole.
The first anonymous text extols the author's newfound appreciation of the merits of ready-to-wear.
Dell Leigh then reports on the trends in men's formal wear at home and abroad.