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Apparel Arts Spring 1933
Golf Figure 1- Wearing brown shetland, semi-norfolk notch lapel jacket with belt all around loose from the vertical pockets, side bellows pockets with buttoned flaps and two vertical pockets at top. Buttons can be either leather or horn. With thi sjacket, short brown Harris tweed knickers with overplaid, solid color brown ribbed hose with white tops, garter tabs, brown full brogue shoes with overlapping tongues, dark blue cotton flannel shirt with the new 2 3/8" collar pinned, India print madras tie. The jacket that this figure is wearing is the one that is so popular at Princeton. The back has...
Mike Disfarmer
Written by Tony Sylvester
While very little is known of American glass plate photographer Mike Disfarmer besides basic biographical facts, his legacy as a de facto social documentor of early 20th century rural life in the American South is colossal.
Shearing Day
Written by Cassandra Harada
Our knitter, Cassandra Harada shares her experience of every wool farmer’s favorite day of the year, shearing day on her family farm in Warsaw, Illinois.
Apparel Arts Spring 1933
Fashion Forecast - Men Fig. 1- The green rough felt homburg in the smartest dimensions. Fig. 2- A brown rough felt country hat with tweed band. The favorite of smart men during the late shooting season. Fig. 3- A new and smart hat - a homburg which snaps down in front. Originated and popularized by Yale students. Fig. 4- Smart L.I. society men at informal race meetings and point-to-point meets are favoring the one-piece top cap. This one is in district plaid of red Glen Urquhart. Fig. 5- The new trend in collars. Note the widespread openings. The center one...