#Austin Reed’s of Regent Street

[tomoleary]

Tom Purvis (1888-1959) Austin Reed’s of Regent Street

[paulrennie]

Things I Like • Heavyweight Herringbone Tweed Overcoat • Austin Reed • 1948

I just found this beautiful made-to-measure vintage tweed overcoat. The cloth is a brown heavyweight herringbone, and the coat was made by Austin Reed, of Regents Street, London. The coat is calf length, in a broad shouldered and wide lapelled style, with a single-breasted front. The inside is half-lined, and very neatly finished.

There's a label which gives the details of when it was made, and for whom.

The coat is in pristine condition and looks to never have been worn.

The general style of the coat is Robert Donat, as Richard Hannay, in Afred Hitchcock's, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935). That's perfect, as that is one of my favourite films. I've posted about the film before, and about Alfred Hitchcock. His films were always the best-dressed, for both boys and girls.

The 39 Steps (1935) was a dramatisation of John Buchan’s famous adventure story, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). 

In Buchan’s story, the issue of mistaken identity is played out against a background of great-power espionage. The police and British secret-service mistakenly identify Richard Hannay as a murder suspect. Hannay flees to Scotland and uses his bush-craft skills to evade capture. Eventually, Hannay exposes a fiendish plot and saves the day. The tweed suit and bush-craft are a combination that speaks to the military and sporting traditions of the English gentleman, and his tailor. This is reflected in the personality of Hitchcock’s male leads as both dynamic and enterprising, and expressed in their clothes and style.

The main protagonists of Hitchcock films, always remain remarkably poised throughout their travails…and Hitchcock was a master of dynamic action, point-of-view, and editing. Hitchcock allows the personalities, and the clothes, to shine.

The Richard Hannay template provides for a proto James Bond OO7 style that has lasted a 100 years...through Robert Donat, and Cary Grant, to Sean Connery and Daniel Craig.

The Scottish setting of Buchan’s adventure, provides a suitable background for thorn-proof shooting tweeds. The tweeds allow him to remain hidden from both the police and his enemies. There are some dramatic images, in the chase sequences, of tailored silhouettes and action backs against the skyline of the Highland sublime…

Hitchcock returned to the themes of The Thirty-Nine Steps in his classic, North by Northwest (1959). The climax of the film plays out against the backdrop of Mount Rushmore, ND. Cary Grant looks great, as always, in his Kilgour two-piece lounge suit...probably the best suit in the history of cinema.

Austin Reed were pioneers of good quality menswear, that combined handmade quality made-to-measure and economical volume. The catered for military, city and country tastes...The made-to-measure industry developed as a consequence of the mass manufacturing of uniforms for WW1. It provided a commercial compromise between volume cutting and hand-finishing. Made-to-measure suits were a staple of the British workplace, and of the high street until the 1990s. Suits were from Burton, Austin Reed and Hector Powe etc.

My interests is vintage menswear and old posters intersect at Austin Reed. Although the firm was not as progressive as, say, Simpson's of Piccadilly, they employed Tom Purvis, Tom Eckersley and Fougasse, amongst others, to create sophisticated advertising and promotional designs.

I have a history of the firm with lots of great images. I discovered that Austin Reed had shops on the great Cunard trans Atlantic ocean liners, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth...

Hurrah for this beautiful coat, that is ten years older than me!

I was delighted, yesterday evening watching The Third Man (1949), that Joseph Cotten wears a very similar coat. Some small details are different; but the cut, cloth, style and details are very similar. The coat looks terrific in movement...

Two of my favourite old films referenced in a coat. Perfect.

PS as I get older and more eccentric, I will wear the coat around the house, and save on heating

[dealthorpakp]

18 Novembre 1981 Allumage des lumières de Noël à Austin Reed sur Regent Street Londres et premier engagement solo de la princesse de Galles

[stylistfortheyoungatheart]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Austin Reed of Regent Street Wool Tweed Jacket & Wool Plaid Scarf, Size 8 $125

[paul-mccartney0]

The Beatles pose at the Austin Reed Store in Regent Street in London, England | 16 July 1963 © Billy Zygmant

[pauls-broken-a-glass65]

The Beatles pose wearing morning coats (or tailcoats) in front of a full length mirror at the Austin Reed store in Regent Street, London on 16th July 1963.

[danismm]

The barbershop in the Austin Reed Store in London’s Regent Street. Designed by P. J. Westwood in 1929.

[jwlennon]

Matching coats in 1963 - at the Austin Reed store in Regent Street, London, July 16

[posludios]

Publicidad de Tom Purvis en los 20′s para Austin Reed. Empresa de moda por retail creada en 1900 y ubicada en 1911 en el Regent Street de Londres, Inglaterra.

[neatandswell]

Vintage Austin Reed Pure Virgin Wool Short Cut-Off Jacket $68 + s/h Women's XS/S Pure Virgin Wool Austin Reed of Regent Street Woven and tailored in the U.S.A. Professionally dry clean only Approximate measurements, lying flat: Pit to pit: 23 inches Total length: 22 inches Sleeve length: 22.5 inches Shoulder width: 18 inches The jacket has two different buttons in front. It is not meant to button shut, and hits at the waist, like an elongated bolero jacket. Includes a breast pocket handstiched "Stitches by Susan." Loving handstitched detail throughout. A variety of patterned materials including virgin wool and velvet. C O N D I T I O N Damage to one of the front buttons. Some moth holes, pictured. The price has been adjusted accordingly. Please ask questions! More pictures available. DM for purchase or visit my Etsy page (link in bio). Shipping available. Pickup in Oakland, CA All sales final via Instagram. Shop available at #neatandswell . . . . . . . #shopsmallsanfrancisco #shopsmalloakland #shopsmallsf #shoplocal #shoplocaloakland #shoplocalsf #vintage #shopvintage #vintagesf #vintageoakland #womensjacket #vintagejackets #vintagejacket #vintagewooljacket #austinreed #cutoffjacket #uniquevintage #uniquevintage #oneofakindclothing @thevntgapp (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXwatezP5SF/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bill-ernest-bill]

Thomas Crows the hidden Mod in modern art:

‘If art is to be meaningful, Crow seems to insist, it needs to be woven into the fabric of life just as a boutique storefront lodges itself on a city street’

Most art at the time of mods was called pop, which seems to be a very narrow view of what the creative scene was. Mod is described as “a particular kind of English enthusiast for a particular kind of foreign product—Italian scooters, American haircuts, Black music.”

Crow is a a key critic of postwar American and European art, insisting that “modern art (at least in London in the late 1950s to early ’60s) not only belonged to the wider culture but was itself possessed by the spirit of the mod—in other words, that a not-so-common culture (or at least a meticulously self-fashioned one) is constitutive of modern art as it was then being imagined.”

Listen to be bop or hard bop, and wore the pilfered clothes of the upper class. Miles Davis.

The first chapter examines an early movable “Pop” mural by Robyn Denny, Great, Big Wide, Biggest, 1955, a kind of abstracted hoarding full of deconstructed Pepsi logos and hip buzzwords melding into one another that graced the wall of the Austin Reed men’s shop on Regent Street.

Celia Birtwell - London fashion designer. Friends with David Hockney, who queered the mod look.

Boty posed with her paintings often, not only because, as a pop celebrity, she was used to standing next to things (she appeared on the music program Ready Steady Go! and in the 1962 Ken Russell documentary Pop Goes the Easel), but also to mark an identification with her subjects, which included New Wave idols such as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Monica Vitti.

Art for Crow belongs to a space of agency, enthusiasm, mystery, and veneration—art possesses a privileged place, even if it’s not always where we expect it to be.

Crow bridles at the language of “subcultures” coined by cultural studies, especially its implications of lowness, and he is also critical of other strains of social art history: namely, those established by Clark, his mentor, who, Crow believes, condescended to earlier incarnations of youth culture

Art for Crow occupies a strange place: Not beholden to any institution, it remains a privileged part of life, full of heroes and moments of reaching toward ecstasy. At its most potent, it might be touched by myth, that old-time religion, and create cults of worship. The mod might have been one instance of this.

[doubtspirit]

Austin Reed's of Regent Street

[lordjoy73]

I just added this listing on Poshmark: Austin Reed tweed suit jacket beige. 38. #poshmark #fashion #shopping #shopmycloset

[stylistfortheyoungatheart]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Austin Reed of Regent Street Wool Tweed Jacket & Wool Plaid Scarf, Size 8 $100.

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[travelingmerchantvintage-blog]

48-hour sale! This jacket will be available for sale exclusively on Instagram (@travelingmerchantvintage) for the next 48 hours, after which it will be listed online on Saturday, July 1st 5pm EST. Vintage 70's dead stock Austin Reed Regent Street Harris Tweed hunting sport coat. Estimated 1976-79, with a ACTWU union tag (established 1976). Found in a batch of identical sport coats in mint condition with CONSECUTIVE lot numbers so this is confirmed dead stock (or new old stock depending on your terminology), this coat never made it to the storeroom floor and has never been worn. Beautiful Harris Tweed fabric, elbow patches and leather-style buttons. Measurements: Shoulders - 18" Length - 30" Chest - 40" Waist - 38" Arm - 25"