Figure 1.--This Swiss shows two brothers. The younger brother wears a cut-away jacket. His big brother wears a lapel sack suit. The photographer is Ganz in Zurich. The CDV is undated, but looks like the 1870s. |
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The two major garments making up a suit are the jsacket and pants or trousders. The type of suit is usually determined by the type of jacket. We notice cut-away jackes sand verying types of sack suits with lapels. Norfolk suits were very popular and we see both single- and double-breasted jackets. Eron suits were also worn. We also see several different types of pants. We note short pands, knee pants, knickers, and long pants. A third suit item is the vest or waistcoat. This is what is normally referenced by the term three-piece suit. The vest was optional, but many suits had them in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. A fourth item is the headwear. Headwear was almost always an optional item. We have seen suits with mastching caps, but are Swiss archice is very limited and we have not yet found examples.
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