[Ads-l] antedating "Sloppy Joe"

[Bill Mullins]

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[1938 Women's Wear Daily 18 Apr 4/2 [proquest]

Gimbel's spotlighted the beer jacket with hat to match featuring class numerals, called "Sloppy Joe" and priced at $1.69]



1939 Women's Wear Daily 21 Jun 14/3  [proquest]

Seattle buyers and University of Washington students agreed on importance of tailored jackets, also cardigans, including a boxy type called "Sloppy Joe".



1939 Women's Wear Daily 22 Jun 20/2 [proquest]

The ribbon-bound cardigan most highly though of here is called "Sloppy Joe" because
it is a quite long loose one, without buttons at the very bottom so that it gapes
open here in the way so many college girls wear their cardigans.

N.B. An article two days after the bracketed cite above makes it clear that the beer jacket is named for the famous Havana bar "Sloppy Joe's".  I think that ultimately, then, the cardigan's name likewise comes from that institution.


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1944 Ravenna OH Evening Record and Daily Courier-Tribune 17 Jan 3/2 [genealogybank]

Our Specialty Sloppy-Joe Sandwich 15c [display adv]

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