W. J. Mahon's catalogs for men's fashions (Spring & Summer, 1911)
A 1911 spring and summer men's fashion catalogue issued by the W. J. Mahon firm, presenting tailored clothing to male customers. Its plates show men in suits, morning coats and evening dress drawn in fine pen-and-ink line with soft grey wash, with figures posed in full length against plain or sketched backgrounds. A designer could take from them the period cut of lapels, waistcoats, striped trousers and the silhouette of early twentieth-century menswear, along with the poised, understated tone of the drawings.
