The most basic of lightweight combinations: blue tropical weight suit, white shirt, black shoes and a solid satin or knit necktie.
He may have learned it from Cary Grant. Or was it the other way around?
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Basic Bond
The most basic of lightweight combinations: blue tropical weight suit, white shirt, black shoes and a solid satin or knit necktie.
He may have learned it from Cary Grant. Or was it the other way around?
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Will, you might enjoy this blog:
http://bondclothes.blogspot.com/search/label/Goldfinger
The author (Matt) intends to study every one of Bond's outfits. In this (linked) post he examines the same outfit that you just posted on. Matt's high definition screen caps are very useful!
The first Bond novel was published in 1953 and Grant was onto the plain, grey, black and white look before that. Bond seems to reflect Fleming's own restrained clothes' sense (apart from the polka dot bow ties). Both Fleming and Bond wore their clothes out and Fleming's suits were threadbare by the time that he discarded them.
The standard view is that Connery's Bond was basically styled by director Terence Young. His tailor, Anthony Sinclair, became Connery's tailor.
Wasn't Grant's tailor Anderson & Sheppard? I suppose they would have been providing him with an 'English cut' silhouette since about the'30s or the '40s.
Grant had more tailors than I do.
Kilgour (French & Stanbury) claim a lot for CG. John Kent remembers Archie too. But, as you say, Archie shopped around and, famously liking value for money, used Californian and Hong Kong tailors in the mix too.
Lightweight, yes, but any suit that dark should stay out of the sun—unless its wearer enjoys being baked.
Anyone care to recommend "suiting" for someone who lives and works in the deepest South of the US and whose State has the reputation of having the highest humidity every summer day?
I can tell you from experience, even WITHOUT a coat, wearing just long sleeves in the sun for 10 minutes on any day last week (which I did while walking to eat at Galatoire's in the French Quarter after a trial - coat in hand to put on after entering :) ), will result in one being drenched with sweat and could easily ruin a suit if one does not seek shade quickly . . .
Regards,
Sam
That blue herringbone suit is a must have. Good blog on Bond's suits, including this one: http://bondclothes.blogspot.com/2011/04/blue-herringbone-suit.html#comments
The name is Boehlke. Will Boehlke.
I would say that neither James Bond (the early Sean Connery version) nor Cary Grant influenced each other. They both dressed in a manner which was widely accepted by gentlemen in the 50's and 60's.
In the swinging 60's and 70's, that look was out of fashion. The change in tastes is chronicled in the James Bond films after "Thunderball."
What do you think of Connery's outfits on Celebrity Jeopardy?
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