Comments on A Suitable Wardrobe: So Wrong

Tony's suit/shirt tie are perfect... for his chara...

2009-02-13T09:41:00.000-08:00

Tony's suit/shirt tie are perfect... for his character. This is Tony's idea of "sharp".

Will,I watched Notorious (1946) last night with ca...

2008-04-09T06:08:00.000-07:00

Will,

I watched Notorious (1946) last night with cary Grant and Ingrid Berman. It appeared that Grant's white button down collar shirt had cufflinks - AND he was wearing it with an odd jacket and at times wore it with a double-breasted suit which I understand not to be correct. However despite these abnormalities he still did not look like a rube - like everyone does in this photo here.

I thought that the whole idea about Tony was just ...

2008-03-30T05:29:00.000-07:00

I thought that the whole idea about Tony was just that: That EVERYTHING about him is so wrong.

To be fair, Tony's version of dressed up was gener...

2008-03-29T06:05:00.000-07:00

To be fair, Tony's version of dressed up was generally superior to the other male characters.

His style is always about trying to appear powerful and dominant in his role as a crime boss, no more no less. I never got any real sense that he thought of himself as just another upwardly mobile business man. He knows who he is. His style isn't informed by Flusser et al, but by decades of

Blackspeeker, jacket and tie dressing comes from a...

2008-03-29T00:00:12.954-07:00

Blackspeeker, jacket and tie dressing comes from an English aristocratic tradition. Tony's matching tie and square, his wristwatch, the french cuffs worn with an odd jacket, the odd jacket itself in that setting, the too-dark shirt, and the blue tie, shirt and jacket combination are all wrong by those standards.

Any one of these things might be OK. In combination they shout prole. See

I fail to see what they've done wrong, then again,...

2008-03-28T22:29:00.000-07:00

I fail to see what they've done wrong, then again, I'm young and ignorant so maybe you'll forgive me for that.

Can you explain more along the lines as to why it is wrong

I do, of course, mean "dyed", not "died". Darn fl...

2008-03-28T17:39:00.000-07:00

I do, of course, mean "dyed", not "died". Darn flu. Can't type because of it. Perhaps, some green tea. Or a shot of Maker's Mark, I say.

I just wish that most men put as much thought, rig...

2008-03-28T16:07:00.000-07:00

I just wish that most men put as much thought, right or wrong, into what they're wearing to begin with...

John and Turling -- two Cooper photos. Good choices. He was also fluent in French. A man to emulate. Can we these days?

Well, John, by the looks of the picture, Silvio di...

2008-03-28T14:22:00.000-07:00

Well, John, by the looks of the picture, Silvio died his shirt with the green tea.

where's that green tea when you need it.....

2008-03-28T10:07:00.000-07:00

where's that green tea when you need it.....

Maybe it's my monitor settings, but that shirt doe...

2008-03-28T09:32:00.000-07:00

Maybe it's my monitor settings, but that shirt doesn't look too bad to me... it doesn't even look "aqua," it looks blue.