Suspenders that Americans loved

[tuatara]

Annual sales of over 2,000,000. Huh, that’s pretty impressive. I don’t know if Ch. Guyot suspenders were top-of-the range things in 1907 at their 60 cents a pair but I am quite confident that they were not the cheapest ones. I read somewhere that people in America who could not afford this make bought their imitations at 15 cents instead. BTW, not only Americans loved them. This French company Ch. Guyot was very global. Here is their poster titled ‘A man of style won’t wear anything but Ch. Guyot’. It shows a bunch of nations they used to export their suspenders to.

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Though it does not seem that Australians are in the picture, they used to wear these suspenders as well otherwise I would not have found this on a site of 1890 – 1920 among my other finds (did not have time to clean the rest). As a matter of fact, soldiers wore Ch. Guyot suspenders during WW1.

 

[HISPAN]

WOW had one in my collection ...... thanks for the information!

 

[rjw4law]

Thanks for the info.

 

[DCMatt]

I have one that came from a plantation property in Fredericksburg Virginia. I read about the "knock offs" and all the court battles because of them.

I didn't know they were popular around the world.

DCMatt

 

[tuatara]

I have one that came from a plantation property in Fredericksburg Virginia. I read about the "knock offs" and all the court battles because of them. I didn't know they were popular around the world.
DCMatt

Ch. Guuot company was a subject to protectionism of the local market. If they had not been popular, other companies would not have taken trouble to imitate them. Their posters are a real gold of 24 ct. I just think about all pot bellies the suspenders supported. They needed to make them durable.

 

[Ramitt]

Great post. I love the research you did and sharing it with us. Thanks I learned something.

 

[Baggins]

I believe I have a couple in my collection somewhere as well....
Baggins

 

[Knightwalker]

Cool find. Impressive ads. Thanks for showing them.
HH in 2010
KW

 

[BartlettJ64]

I know that place, and we need to go back! I will try to get in touch with you soon. Hope Jim is well. I really need to learn to use my machine and just get out. I have not been out since the last time we all went. Take care bud.

 

[Geno68]

good info, thanks. I dug a couple of these today.