N by NW Best Suit of all time

[Miss Crisplock]

A new poll / study / opinion puts Cary Grant's grey suit as the height of suit style.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061016...TGzlQ1s0ShxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

Agree or No?

Other choices on the list?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Interesting. It's an early American version of Italy's "continental" style suits.


I would add Cary Grant's glen plaid DB suit from His Girl Friday to the list.

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[Sefton]

Some great clothes and movies just in the first 8!
1. North by Northwest (1959):eusa_clap

2. Breathless (1959):eusa_clap

3. Ocean's 11 (1960)

4. Purple Noon (1960)

5. 8 1/2 (1963):eusa_clap

6. A Hard Day's Night (1964)

7. How to Steal A Million (1966)

8. Blowup (1966)
Still, as much as I like all of those it's too bad they didn't include any suits from 30s or 40s films.

 

[Feraud]

Here is the top 25 list in chronological order:

1. North by Northwest (1959)

2. Breathless (1959)

3. Ocean's 11 (1960)

4. Purple Noon (1960)

5. 8 1/2 (1963)

6. A Hard Day's Night (1964)

7. How to Steal A Million (1966)

8. Blowup (1966)

9. Bullitt (1968) 10. Get Carter (1970) 11. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 12. Shaft (1971) 13. Badlands (1973) 14. The Harder they Come (1973) 15. The Godfather Part II (1974) 16. Shampoo (1975) 17. Three Days of the Condor (1975) 18. Quadrophenia (1979) 19. American Gigolo (1980) 20. Diner (1982) 21. Stranger than Paradise (1984) 22. Reservoir Dogs (1992) 23. Trainspotting (1996) 24. Rushmore (1998) 25. In the Mood for Love (2000)

...#23 - Trainspotting. Huh? What great outfit did I miss in the film? Was it something Rudeboy wore?

 

[Solid Citizen]

Cary Grant

Bottom line its not just the suit but the MAN wearing that suit :eusa_clap

SC

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Exactly.

We all revere Bogart's fedoras ... mainly because it was Bogart wearing them.

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[scotrace]

50-100: Any suit worn by William Powell.

Or jimjams

 

[Tomasso]

We all revere Bogart's fedoras ...

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I like Bogie's flippers, too.

He really was a tiny man with a huge head.

 

[Robert Conway]

I would add Cary Grant's glen plaid DB suit from His Girl Friday to the list.

That's one of my all time favorites, too.


RC

 

[herringbonekid]

i notice there's no 30s or 40s suits in the top ten. i think it speaks volumes about the blandness of the voter's taste. not that the Cary Grant suit is bad. it's just a bit boring.

 

[Feraud]

i notice there's no 30s or 40s suits in the top ten. i think it speaks volumes about the blandness of the voter's taste. not that the Cary Grant suit is bad. it's just a bit boring.

Speaking of voters taste. Call me a skeptic but I wonder who these voters really are? Most of my peers in the middle to late 30's barely know who Cary Grant is and have not seen North By Northwest, let alone Breathless or Purple Noon!
The article reads like "creative license" to me. :whistling

 

[scotrace]

I think the good General's term applies: Bovine Scatology.

 

[jake_fink]

I like Bogie's flippers, too.

He really was a tiny man with a huge head.

That's a horrifying picture of Bogart! He looks like the before side of an alien autopsy ad.

(good for Halloween though)

 

[Baron Kurtz]

no golden era suits (it would truly be a stretch to include 1959 in the Golden Era) in the whole list of 25. unbelievable. We must protest!

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

To my mind, Cary Grant looked great in every suit he wore from 1936 onward. Here is the His Girl Friday suit, whose jacket was longer than the norm, and whose buttons were more widely spaced. It made Grant look as if he had a strapping torso. (Which perhaps he did!)

 

[Tomasso]

Most of my peers in the middle to late 30's barely know who Cary Grant is and have not seen North By Northwest

Really? That's hard to believe. :eusa_doh:

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I've always loved the suit the dame wore all through His Girl Friday. That is truly one of the greatest pieces of female suit wardrobe i've ever seen. The hat is cool, too ...

bk

 

[Feraud]

Really? That's hard to believe. :eusa_doh:

It's all true! They also think fedoras are cowboy hats!