"Shopping for the Well-Dressed Man"

Clothing styles

By: Vanity Fair

Date: July 1916

Source: Trevor, Robert Lloyd. "Shopping for the Well-Dressed Man: Some Observations on a Standard Costume for Golfers." Vanity Fair, July 1916, 75.

About the Publication: The Vanity Fair Publishing Co. began publishing Dress & Vanity Fair in 1913. A year later, Condé Nast Publications took over the magazine and changed the name to Vanity Fair. The magazine sought to be the American counterpart of British magazines like The Tatler and The Sketch, which covered the arts, culture, and society as well as fashion, and aimed to attract both male and female readers. The magazine was aimed at sophisticated, wealthy people. Vanity Fair was absorbed by Vogue magazine in 1936, but it reappeared in 1983. Robert Lloyd Trevor, the author of this article, wrote a monthly column on men's...

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