The classic look.

[Wild Root]

The last part. It became classic because he wore it. Funny, so many mention Fred and Cary but, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable are the ones people looked too for fashion in the day... I think they had "IT" before Astaire and Grant came icons.

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[Marc Chevalier]

We've heard this before, and it will always apply:

When you wear your clothes (as opposed to having your clothes wear you), they become classic -- you make them so.

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[Hemingway Jones]

The last part. It became classic because he wore it. Funny, so many mention Fred and Cary but, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable are the ones people looked too for fashion in the day... I think they had "IT" before Astaire and Grant came icons.

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They have since become eclipsed by Grant and Astaire. Interesting. Even Bogart always looked classic, but he, though iconic, was not traditionally handsome.

 

[Wild Root]

I love Grant and Astaire, they were fine actors and Astaire for his dancing... the man looked incredible in tails! His early to late 30's films were fantastic. In the film Broadway Melody of 1940 he wore some clothes and hats that looked very 50's to me... I liked his 30's fashion but, up till 1939 his fashion was very basic and blah... nothing very fancy as it was in years before.

I like Cooper my self, he was a taller man and wore some beautiful styles... he was an icon from day one... and still is but, most of the members here have eclipsed him by focus on the other two. Gable, man, that guy had some fine clothes! Love his early to late 30's work! I recall in the film "Idiot's Delight" he wore an amazing pinstriped suit with a dark shirt and a light tie... I think that's where that look might have been born and he wasn't even connected to the Mob!

For me, it's Cooper and Gable... maybe throw in a young Douglas Fairbanks JR.

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[Marc Chevalier]

I find the wild dressers entertaining. Duke Ellington, with his insanely long shirt collars and boldly checked jackets; and George Raft, with his white suit and white floppy golf cap -- worn with a black, zipper-front tennis shirt.

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[Wild Root]

Yeah! Those were some killer outfits! One outfit I consider to be classic is this one...

I love the four pocket sport jacket... with pleats of course! I have seen this coat worn with out a tie... just a nice light colored turtle neck... that looks pretty classy!

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[Marc Chevalier]

Duke Ellington wore a very similar-looking sportcoat from the '30s to the '70s!

I found one once from the early '40s -- in cashmere! I ended up giving it to Chester Whitmore.

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[Tomasso]

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

Cary Grant is another. Was Cary ever seen out of classic attire

Keep it to yourself but CG did have his missteps

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Naah ... that was Archie Leach.


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[Tomasso]

Sage Sartorial Advice

When you wear your clothes (as opposed to having your clothes wear you),

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A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them. – Hardy Amies

 

[Wild Root]

Keep it to yourself but CG did have his missteps

Man, that is sharp! I like that teens look too!

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