1940s Men's Fashions

Informality Enters
the Business World

• Collier's Magazine, 1941 •


The article on the right heralds the slippery slope in men’s fashion. Our’s is the era in which it is not odd to see billion-dollar businesses being run by men in flipflops and gym shorts – this is a far cry from how their grandfathers would have dressed were they in the same position. The well-respected fashion journalist (Henry L. Jackson, 1911 – 1948: co-founder of Esquire)
opined in this article that it was suitable for men to cease wearing the darker hues to the office and wear country tweeds; next stop – flipflops.


Pictured Above: – both John D. Rockefeller and Mark Zuckerberg in battle dress.

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rise of casual clothing in the office 1941sportswear in place of appropriate business clothingslippery-slope of men's fashion leading to inappropriate clothing in the office and other occasions

Informality Enters the Business World

Informality Enters the Business World

Informality Enters the Business World

Informality Enters the Business World

rise of casual clothing in the office 1941sportswear in place of appropriate business clothingslippery-slope of men's fashion leading to inappropriate clothing in the office and other occasions
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