Unique Tuxedo Shirt Creative Black Bow Tie Novelty Rawlinson Marking England 15

Description

Vintage men's cotton tuxedo shirt with a cool black & white bowtie print on the front by a long gone shirt maker in England named Rawlinson & Marking of Cambridge. They were sold at Selfridges and Harrods, and made unique and whimsical bespoke shirts and accessories. In the 1980s they expanded to the US market, but that ended quickly.
This shirt, in a lightweight linen like cotton, features a pique placket and french cuffs. Wear this to creative black tie events, or weddings, or special events. The size is listed as 15"--I would call this a men's medium, 39" to 41" chest with a 15" neck.
Label:      Rawlinson & Marking, Cambridge England
Size:         15" (38cm); 15" neck (14.5" to 15" is best)
Fabric:    100% cotton
Notes:      you will need shirt studs to close the front and cuffs
Measurements:
with garment
laid flat
(with pertinent dimensions). To easily find out if a garment is in your size—vintage sizing is hardly accurate—check a garment (that fits you perfectly) with a tailors tape or tape measure & compare those with mine (then write those measurements down so you always have them handy when you shop online). Bust is measured under the arm from side to side, for instance, and doubled would be your bust size (ie. 17” across the bust = 32” to 34” bust). The across the back measurement, seam to seam, opposite the bust, often determines a bra band size—if the front, stretched, measurement for a 16” back width, is 17,” the right size would be a 32 B cup which adds the darting in the front.
22" across the chest
22" across the waist
22" across the hip
16-3/4" across the shoulder width, seam/seam
30-1/2" length, measured from back of neckline to hemline rear
19-1/2" sleeve inseam length
23" outer sleeve length
32" total sleeve length, including shoulder (from center of neckline down shoulder to edge of sleeve)
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bout me:
I am a NYC-based photo & video prop stylist, set designer, & interior decorator for magazines like Real Simple, Instyle, Modern Luxury & others. I have lived in NYC for 30 years since the late 80s and have been in and around fashion and retail for decades. I am a stealth shopping/ sourcing powerhouse, and can locate an antique or a special prop for a photo shoot, movie set,  or fashion designer with my eyes closed. I started my career in New York City in the late 1980s dressing display windows at Henri Bendel & the elegant Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in the glory days of real story-telling windows. It was there that I learned the art of styling designer clothing & creating an aspirational & romantic mood with merchandise that helps build a relationship with the clothes we wear, and the emotion that people have with properly presented merchandise. I had access to the finest luxury designer clothing like Claude Montana, Pauline Trigere, Coco, Mr Beene and others, and learned about expert seam construction, the feel of good fabrics, the details that matter, and the high tech fabrics that are constantly innovating the marketplace. It was also a time (the 80s) when the shift in the social food chain began to change, a time when the Ladies Who Lunch began to be replaced by a new moneyed group who changed the way retail was conducted, and I always longed for the days when shopping was an event, a treat, and “madame” was served champagne in dressing rooms and the clothes were not thrown on rounder racks in discount departments.
Being around such glamorous clothing it was hard to not learn about what separates quality clothing from fast fashion, and I bolstered my fashion history knowledge with constant learning about the names of yesteryear and the designers who were the innovators in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and am always learning more, to learn how modern clothes spring forth from their predecessors. My grandmother Gladys Schuck ran the Cancer Association Thrift Shop in Westport, CT in the 1960s and as a child I helped sort boxes of donated clothing, and she would tell me stories about the designers and the fabrics, and I learned a great deal about vintage clothing from her; my mother, after raising her children, was an antique dealer and auction and estate sale maven, so I learned from her all the time.
I started buying vintage clothing at flea markets & estate sales on my own, and have built an incredible collection, much of it coming up for sale here on eBay (along with consignments from my fashion industry and magazine industry cohorts). My mother also wore lots of Bonnie Cashin in the 1960s and 1970s so I was aware of the modern minimalists, and sought them out for her when I found them.
These days, in addition to home decorating, home organizing, and photo styling for photo shoots, I sell some of my vintage finds here on eBay. I am also a home organization expert, the "Clutter Coach" for REAL SIMPLE magazine. Since I’m shopping constantly, and love fancy estate sales and sample sales, I scour them regularly and with great skill; the result is an online shop that I consider a finely curated collection of vintage clothing, home accessories, & mid century odds and ends from high end homes in the New York City area.
I also take consignments from fashion stylists & fashion editors I know in NYC who have packed closets filled with designer garments they bought, received as gifts from designers, or used on photo shoots and are in perfect condition--all sold here & ready for new fashionistas to enjoy them.
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I have proudly sold tons of clothing and props to film and television prop and wardrobe departments including
Masters of Sex, The Mysteries of Laura, Boardwalk Empire, The Carrie Diaries
, and the one with
Don Draper
(you cannot use the name of the show in eBay listings or they take them down). I love helping source stuff, and just KNOW that I have tons more stuff than is listed here, so if you are in film or television production just ask for specifics and I will probably have something for you, or be able to understand what you are looking for without wasting your time. I have been in the biz and know how it works. That said, I am happy to serve film production wardrobe departments and set designers and set prop people, so contact me with any queries about specific items you are looking for. I am a good and reliable resource.
Cheers!
Chipper63
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