1905 mens fashion

It's time for another edition of "Shopping Through The Ages"! This week, we'll take a look at what our ancestors could have bought in the 1900 Sears, Roebuck, & Co. Catalog. If you're new to the series, check out 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899.To start out, I thought that I'd first lists some…

(1890 - 1920) Full Line of Men's Edwardian Style Clothing. Everything a gentleman needs, from head to toe. Hats, coats, shirts, ties, shoes, trousers and beautiful vests.

Fashion is one of the best ways to help identify someone when looking at historical photographs, but have you ever felt lost when trying to date an image of a male ancestor? Mens’ style can be a bit…

Joyride Vintage, owned by married couple Robert and Kristine Houston, contains enough artifacts from American fashion history to pass for a museum. “More like a gift shop,” Robert says,…

The Postcard A view of an Edwardian man sitting on a wooden fence on a postally unused postcard bearing no studio name. Someone has carved their initials on the fence just behind his right knee. What the man is sitting on looks very uncomfortable - I bet he jumped off that fence as soon as the photograph had been taken. Let us hope that he survived the Great War and continued to live on into the 1970's or even the 1980's. To see the same man standing on an outside flight of steps, please…

Working class Edwardian men still had the misfortune of being able to afford only secondhand clothes and very cheap ready-made clothing. Men worked hard labor jobs for six-day, 52-60 hour weeks in factories, railroads, mines, and farming operations. --> Jump to buy clothing. New immigrants may have been given uniforms or clothing as part of