Jake Gittes: Style Icon

[Don Pelon]

Found a great "sunray" tie close enough to Mr. Gittes, I think. Nice alternating stripes of tan, gold and maroon.

I always loved the look of that cream suit coupled with a cream/off-white dress shirt, and his tie. Unique and beautiful. I have to get this linen suit fixed up in a few areas, but you get the idea...

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[Don Pelon]

Looks like this guy has the right idea, with the same suiting and coloring Jake had from the opening of Chinatown. Like the black spectator combination as well:

 

[Metatron]

Found a great "sunray" tie close enough to Mr. Gittes, I think. Nice alternating stripes of tan, gold and maroon.

Wonderful tie. The colour combination makes me think of a sunset at the beach.

 

[Don Pelon]

Wonderful tie. The colour combination makes me think of a sunset at the beach.

"Sunset at the Beach": Sounds like a great name for a cocktail!

 

[Metatron]

Sex on the beach without the vodka?

 

[Don Pelon]

That would make it a combination of peach schnapps, orange and cranberry I believe(?)

 

[gary m]

Charles caine shirts have just released the gittes shirt

The film's art director was Dick Sylbert, and his wife Ann designed the costumes. I've read that they were made for the film and that they were vintage, so I don't know the truth, but she does have an eye for the kind of thing a Jake Gittes would have had on in the summer of 1937.

First up is his linen suit. Apparently white or cream. It is three piece, double breasted and sports a very fancy back. He wears it twice in the film. In the first scene and in the scene following his temper tantrum at the barber. Of course he can't wear a white suit again, since having met the real Evelyn Mulwray he is compromised, so he moves into grey and then on to darker suits. Here's his linen.

Difficult getting full length shots of anything but the back of Nicholson's ear in theis film.

With a red, gold, grey striped tie.

And in the later scene with a different shirt and tie.

 

[Wesslyn]

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Hmm. I like it, but in wish it had pockets

 

[gary m]

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its no way linen , its a very light wool

 

[gary m]

its no way linen , its a very light wool

you can easily tell its not linen if you have ever worn linen , its a cream wool, very light, just got the same material, its gossamer