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The 1920's
A standard, conservative business suit in the 1920s consisted of a jacket, ... which was a flat hat with a short front brim, often made of plaid, tweed, ...

The American 1920s had many names: the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Dry Decade, and the Flapper generation. Whatever the moniker, these years saw the birth of modern America. This volume shows the many colorful ways the decade altered America, its people, and its future. American Popular Culture Through History volumes include a timeline, cost comparisons, chapter bibliographies, and a subject index. Writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Damon Runyon presented distinct literary visions of the world. Jazz, blues, and country music erupted onto the airwaves. The exploits of Babe Ruth and "Murderers' Row" helped save baseball from its scandals, while such players as Red Grange and Notre Dame's "Four Horsemen" brought football to national prominence. Yo-yos, crossword puzzles, and erector sets appeared, along with fads like dance marathons and flagpole sitting. Rudolph Valentino, "talkies," and Clara Bow's "It"...

A Trip Down Automobile Row

From the bookstore where you buy your required reading to the supermarket where you get your spinach, Commonwealth Avenue was once the place to shop for Oldsmobiles, Studebakers, Chryslers, and many other cars.

The Kenmore Square building that now houses Barnes & Noble at BU was home to a dealer of Peerless automobiles. The Star Market by Packard’s Corner was once a Chevrolet dealership. And in between lay more than a mile of storefronts selling cars, parts, and accessories or repairing cars. In the 1920s there were more than 100 such businesses on and near that strip of Comm Ave. Downtown Boston had its “Piano Row” and its “Newspaper Row.” This was Boston’s “Automobile Row.”

During the latter half of the 20th century, BU bought and repurposed many of these buildings.

Source: BU Today

What Did Men Wear in the 1920s? | DM Art Studio

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Suit- Suit jackets were usually single breasted, with minimal buttons, and had an overall loose appearance. Pants were held high on the waist with pleats at the top and cuffs at the bottom. In cool seasons suits were dark grey, blue or brown wile summer colors were white, ivory, pastels and occasionally pink (Gatsby wore a pink suit in novel The Great Gatsby.

Source: What Did Men Wear in the 1920s? | DM Art Studio

Flat Cap | chriskel say

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A flat cap is a rounded cap generally male worn, especially in England, with a small brim in front and a somewhat stiff peak in the back. Materials range from wool, tweed and leather to lighter summer versions in polyester, perforated tiny vents to allow air to circulate.

Profile\”>http://www.himfr.com/buy-Profile_Designer/\”>Profile DesignerThe style can be traced back to 14th century Britain and Ireland and may have emerged from the French \’bonnet\’. A 1571 Act of Parliament to stimulate domestic wool consumption and general trade decreed that on Sundays and holidays that all males over 6 years of age, except for the nobility and persons of degree, were to wear caps of wool manufacture on force of a fine (3/4d (pence) per day). The Bil was not repealed until 1597, though by this time, the flat cap had become firmly entrenched in English psyche as a recognized mark of a non-noble subject; be it a burgher, a tradesman, or apprentice. Flat caps were almost universally worn in the 19th century by working class men throughout Britain and Ireland, and versions in finer cloth were also considered to be suitable casual countryside wear for upper-class English men (hence the contemporary alternative name golf cap). Cloth caps were worn by fashionable young men in the 1920s.

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A Trip Down Automobile Row

BU Today - Dec 31, 1969

In the 1920s there were more than 100 such businesses on and near that strip of Comm Ave. Downtown Boston had its “Piano Row” and its “Newspaper Row.” This was Boston's “Automobile Row.” During the latter half of the 20th century, BU bought and

The Four Seasons Hotel, Chicago: tradition touched with a view to modern

The National - Dec 31, 1969

It's cosy, too, with a comfy sofa positioned near the large flat-screen television, minibar and selection of goodies that have been left out for me - Chicago mints, two types of popcorn, some salted nuts and a Chicago Cubs baseball cap.

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The Brooklyn Ink - Dec 31, 1969

He has tried on what the shop calls a “Gatsby hat,” and he smiles as he says to his mirror image, “may I have some porridge?” Near the front door, a boy no more than four feet tall replaces his flat-brimmed Florida Marlins baseball cap with a fedora

Against Anti Intellectualism

The Skinny - Dec 31, 1969

Two characters in janitor jackets and flat caps toss Renault car badges in a curious game invented by a particularly unrelenting Samuel Beckett. Andro Semeiko's paintings, on the contarary, are fun. In the main, they parody regal portraits of men in

Orchestra revels in Russian program

Omaha World-Herald - Dec 31, 1969

The encore — deceptively titled "Tahiti Trot" — is in fact an orchestration of the 1920s Broadway hit "Tea for Two." The piece, Wilkins told the audience, won Shostakovich a bet that he couldn't orchestrate "Tea for Two" in an hour.