The Losse Chart

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The Losse Chart

I stumbled upon the accompanying chart from the JW Losse Progressive Tailoring Company a while ago (you may need to save it to your computer if you care to read it as Google limits the size the thing will display at on screen) and have been using it as a reference for my own wardrobe in the belief that things that have disappeared from common view over the years can often be elegantly resurrected. Based on the recommendations for shirt collars and evening wear the chart appears to date back to the late 1920's or the 1930's.

Some advice is more useful than others after 75 years of course. My principal takeaway has had to do with gloves. Yellow chamois and light tan deerskin (in place of reindeer) for day wear, for example as well as gray suede for more formal occasions. So much better looking than black.
Note that your jewelry should be gold unless you are wearing white tie, your dinner jacket bowtie should be the same color as your waistcoat and a straw boater is perfectly acceptable with a dinner jacket for a summer's evening. I would stick to a black band though (London's Lock & Co has them and they also look great on the golf course).