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Olive Green Wool Pinstripe Three-Piece Suit
1960s · 1960s · British
Designer
Watson, Fagerstrom & Hughes
Production
ready-to-wear
Material
wool
Culture
British
Movement
Space Age
Influences
Savile Row tailoring tradition
A single-breasted three-piece suit in olive green wool with narrow cream pinstripes. The jacket features a notched lapel, four-button front closure, and patch pockets with flaps. The construction shows traditional British tailoring with structured shoulders and a fitted waist. The pinstripe pattern runs vertically in regular intervals across the fabric. The jacket length extends to mid-hip, typical of 1960s proportions. The waistcoat underneath follows the same striped pattern and appears to have a button front closure. This represents the continuation of classic British suiting traditions during the early Space Age period, maintaining conservative tailoring principles while the fashion world was beginning to embrace more experimental silhouettes.
jacketregular fithip length
Connected To
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Echoes Across Time
2020s → 1960s · 60yr61%
SHARED
The navy windowpane check blazer and that olive pinstripe three-piece suit are separated by six decades but united by the British obsession with turning geometry into good breeding. Where the '60s suit uses tight pinstripes to create a lean, almost mod silhouette—notice how those vertical lines slice through the jacket's boxy frame—the contemporary blazer opts for windowpane checks that feel more relaxed, more American-influenced in their scale and spacing.
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