Highlighting interesting and iconic men's #style in movies and TV from Cary Grant, Sidney Poitier, and Steve McQueen to James Bond, Don Draper, and the Rat Pack
Released 50 years ago today on June 6, 1976 (to mirror the opening scene set at 6 a.m. on 6/6), The Omen stars Gregory Peck as an American ambassador and new dad who makes better sartorial than parenting decisions in his @Huntsman11SR-tailored suits. https://t.co/z0ezv0D3ck
Born 70 years ago today on June 4, 1956, Keith David’s elevated 1960s/70s sportswear as Kirby in Dead Presidents (1995) included a peach printed four-button polo shirt tucked into tobacco slacks with silver statement rings and sand suede desert boots.
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Happy 90th birthday, Bruce Dern! The first of his movies I’d ever seen was The Great Gatsby (1974) as we meet his Tom Buchanan, dressed for polo in blue jersey, white breeches, oxblood boots, and a tri-buckle kidney belt—supplemented with a shawl cardigan.
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You guys are such cliches. He has no idea what he's wearing. He's buttoned both buttons on a two button jacket, which is basically never acceptable. He's wearing a tie pin with a waistcoat. The collar is wrong and it's unbuttoned. Combining 1920s hair with a Victorian moustache is gauche. He looks like a waiter at a try-hard artisanal cocktail place in 2014.
Born 100 years ago on June 1, 1926, Andy Griffith debuted in A Face in the Crowd (1957) as drifter-turned-demagogue “Lonesome” Rhodes, whose clothes like this silky sport shirt, string tie, light flannel suit, and cowboy boots reflect his homespun persona.
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Costume designer Paul Zastupnevich dressed the gentlemen of the 1974 disaster epic The Towering Inferno in colorfully creative black tie, such as Robert Wagner’s velvet-collared blue tuxedo as the doomed Dan Bigelow.
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“Alright, alright, alright…”
Dazed and Confused (1993) is set 50 years ago today on May 28, 1976, featuring Matthew @McConaughey’s breakthrough performance as the Chevelle-driving David Wooderson in his Ted Nugent tee, peach @Levis, and one-hitter pipe.
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The Searchers was widely released 70 years ago today in 1956—coincidentally also star @JohnDukeWayne’s 49th birthday. As Ethan Edwards, Duke wears his usual bib-front shirts, gunbelt, and @Lucchese1883 boots plus a black hat and anachronistic @Levis jeans.
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Paulie Walnuts leaves his silk tracksuits and Sansabelt slacks behind when heading out to sea in The Sopranos episode “Remember When”, cooking up rigatoni alla Paulie (or rigatoni alla Tony, heh heh heh) in a mint camp shirt, shorts, and his @Movado watch.
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Released 24 years ago today in 2002, Insomnia stars Al Pacino as an LAPD detective in Alaska during the midnight sun to solve a murder, dressed in a dark brown leather car coat over his worsted suit and increasingly darker shirts—plus a @TAGHeuer watch.
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Sterling Hayden’s clothes drive his character’s getaway in The Killing—released 70 years ago today in 1956. He robs a track in a soft 4-pocket jacket and check sport shirt, removing both to show the OCBD shirt and tie he wears with another 4-pocket jacket.
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Robert De Niro’s seventies streetwear as the reckless Johnny Boy in Mean Streets (1973) includes a mustard knit polo that calls out the golden triple-check on his brown one-button sport jacket, both proudly worn with a “$25 Dobbs hat” he loses in a brawl.
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“I’m Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!” Signaling his fixation on power, Alex Rocco wears a gold wardrobe as Moe in The Godfather: consisting of belted-back jacket, sport shirt with colorful silk tie, and thick glasses.
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Joseph Cotten was born 121 years ago today on May 15, 1905, and there’s a reason he starred in three of the greatest directors’ favorites of their own films!
“Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man — and I’m in all of them.”
— Joseph Cotten
Bonnie & Clyde costume designer Theadora Van Runkle blended period detail and contemporary relevance from the titular leads to supporting roles like C.W. Moss (Michael J. Pollard) in his 1930s-era @Levis Type I denim jacket, cap, neckerchiefs, and jeans.
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Bloody Mama (1970) was an early role for Robert De Niro, playing one of Ma Barker’s infamous criminal sons: morphine-addicted mama’s boy Lloyd, who lounges lakeside in a bold sweater vest, brown knickerbockers, and spectator shoes.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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Born 125 years ago on May 7, 1901, Gary Cooper’s well-tailored resort wardrobe in the 1938 comedy Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife included a mock-leno patterned sport jacket, deco swirl-print tie, high-waist gabardine trousers with checked belt, and white bucks.
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Gregory Peck blended classic English tailoring with relaxed American refinement in black-and-white herringbone tweed Huntsman suit with blue oxford button-down shirt and foulard tie opposite Sophia Loren in Arabesque, released 50 years ago today in 1966.
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