Original art from a Gatsby-era ad for Hickey Freeman
Original art from a Gatsby-era ad for Hickey Freeman.
Original art from a Gatsby-era ad for Hickey Freeman.
Art for a Hart Schaffner Marx ad that ran in 1950.
Hart Schaffner & Marx’s early ads featured dashing young men at play and their admirers, as in this ad from 1914.
Dogs, day suits and riding attire: HS&M’s ads presaged the blue
blooded branding of Ralph Lauren.
Hickey Freeman’s line sheet from 1917 included this cover depicting
Gatsby-era elegance.
Men are depicted in the white collar uniform (read: topcoats and hats) in this train station scene. Notice the HS&M trumpeter logo framed on the back wall.
WWII patriotism inflects this holiday Hart Schaffner & Marx ad that ran in The Saturday Evening Post.
Suits were worn to attract the opposite sex in the flirty post-War period. Even the woman in the poster nabs a glance.
Hickey Freeman in 1970: polyester and a regrettable portrayal of a secretary.