Fashionable Waistcoats and Tuxedos From The 1920s

Waistcoats from 1920.

The Roaring 20's

Left, full dress. Back Left, clerical. Center, Tuxedo. Right with peek lapels., Tuxedo with shawl collar.

You have the key to unlock my heart...

      This cute cherubim with a shield shaped lock and key may be used on personal wedding pages, for individual couples wedding announcements or in personal scrapbooks or as graphic elements in personal wedding video. Do not use them for profits, resale or to draw traffic to wedding pages/blogs that are designed to profit from third party ads.

Tuxedos from 1905

The shawl-collar is sometimes preferred in full dress; either style is quite correct; these coats were made to custom fit perfectly around the neck and shoulders. In 1905 it was normal for many upper class men to have full dress suits, although these were expensive even for them.

Above are single and double breasted suits from 1905 that cost approximately $25 dollars at that time. The equivalent in our market today would be roughly $689.28, so these suits were worn by the wealthy. That being said, remember that people in 1900 something did not own many suits or dresses. They would perhaps purchase one or two new pieces every few years. People did not wear a different change of clothing daily, however, their clothing was made of excellent materials. The full dress suits above would have been made from a very fine wool and would have lasted for many years. A gentleman would have changed over his dress shirts, shoes, vests and ties frequently enough, but not his entire suit unless he was quite wealthy.

When I Fall In Love

       "When I Fall in Love" is a popular song, written by Victor Young (music) and Edward Heyman (lyrics). It was introduced in the film One Minute to Zero. Jeri Southern sang on the first recording released in April 1952 with the song's composer, Victor Young, handling the arranging and conducting duties. The song has become a standard, with many artists recording it, though the first hit version was sung by Doris Day released in July 1952.

       A 1996 cover by Natalie Cole, a "duet" with her father Nat King Cole by way of vocals from his 1956 cover, won 1996 Grammys for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s).

Nat King Cole sings, "When I Fall In Love"

A valiant woman is gentle...

       "The law of kindness is on her tongue." The valiant woman is gentle. She cultivates self-control and good temper. If married people soon forget each other's faces, they are ever cognizant of each other's bad temper. Marriage, like government, is a series of compromises that needs diplomacy or better charity and self-control. A writer goes so far as to say" "Of all qualities 'tis good temper that wears and works best in married life." The poet Burns was evidently of this opinion, endorsed by the millions, that of all things likely to lose an otherwise good woman her social dominion and her husband's esteem and love, the surest is a bed temper. He distributes the qualities desirable in a wife under ten points. Two points he gives to good sense; fortune, family blood, higher education, social connections, etc., he bunches together, saying, "These must be expressed by fractions, as not one of them is entitled to the dignity of an integer." No less then four out of ten points he gives to good temper. Charles Alfred Martin

• A Gentle Heart
• The Pursuit of Christian Character