Bonds Wardrobe Malfunctions
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Bonds Tracksuit in AVTAK 
) It's odd seeing him wearing it after the Years of Suits and Tuxedos -{
) It's odd seeing him wearing it after the Years of Suits and Tuxedos -{ 1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
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It looked to be velour as well ( Zap Branigan's fav)
I'm confused, I thought a wardrobe malfunction was when clothing falls apart, rather than a fashion howler like these? ?:)
Winner is without a doubt that baby blue one-piece that Connery wore in GF 8-)
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
It just would've been so much better if he wore a suit with his hair combed well.
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Pros and Cons Compendium (50 Years)
Clown suit in Octopussy
Dalton's entire wardrobe in LTK
Brosnan's Hawaiian shirt and hospital clothes
Craig's baggy suit at the end of Casino
Just my thoughts off the top of my head -{
this suit isn't too baggy?
mine would be this:
• TLD PTS outfit
• Tangier suit and blouson
• Krest warehouse outfit
In a Tuxedo. He seemed to suit the more casual clothing.
I don't think it is either, though the waistcoat doesn't fit particularly well. If MrSwinderman finds that suit too baggy, he would have to find the other four Brioni suits in the film too baggy as well because they all have the same fit except for the dinner suit. The dinner suit has narrower trouser legs, despite it being the only suit with pleated trousers in the film.
You lost me with the Krest warehouse outfit.
Thread title should actually be Bond's Wardrobe Faux Pas'
Bond: “I must be dreaming.”
In my mind, the sleeves are too long. Not enough of the shirt cuff shown. Also I find the pants to be a bit too baggy. Just my opinion though the other suits in the film are the same even though I love the tuxedo.
The sleeves are indeed too long, but that has nothing to do with bagginess. Whilst the trousers have a wide leg, they hang neatly so I don't consider them baggy either.
8. TMwtGG 9. AVtaK 10. TSWLM 11. SF 12. LtK 13. TND 14. YOLT
15. NTtD 16. MR 17. LaLD 18. GF 19. SP 20. DN 21. TB
22. TWiNE 23. DAD 24. QoS 25. DaF
Moore doesn't wear a dinner jacket with Scaramanga, but the one he wears when he is supposed to be having dinner with Hai Fat is beautiful and still holds up very well.
8. TMwtGG 9. AVtaK 10. TSWLM 11. SF 12. LtK 13. TND 14. YOLT
15. NTtD 16. MR 17. LaLD 18. GF 19. SP 20. DN 21. TB
22. TWiNE 23. DAD 24. QoS 25. DaF
Yes, the checked jacket. I was confused when you said "dinner jacket". It has the look of a traditional English country tweed, but it's made in a lightweight material to be comfortable in the tropics. Though it's bolder than the black and white houndstooth check suit that Fleming specified for Bond, I think it has the same spirit, especially since Moore pairs it with a similar solid black tie to what Fleming's Bond wore. Bond tones it down by pairing it with charcoal trousers instead of wearing it as a whole suit as Fleming's Bond wore.
Agreed. This is why I think it's important to separate our own contemporary tastes from the context of whatever clothing was used in a particular movie. With that said, I still don't understand why Moore wore said tracksuit in AVTAK despite whatever contextual explanation the wardrobe dept. could come up with. I think even Connery's baby-blue terry-cloth onesie in GF could be justified using this criteria of social and time-based context. The checked and safari jackets in TMWTGG were suitable and IMO, "chic and stylin'" for Bond to pull off in the situations he wore them in.
Exactly. There should be some consideration for the time, but there aren't excuses for many of the items Bond has worn. I'm not sure if there is any excuse for Connery's playsuit in Goldfinger. There are always trendy clothes that nobody should ever wear. Roger Moore's safari jackets made sense because he usually wore them in jungles and never in London.
One piece I've never understood is the printed shirt Daniel Craig wears in Madagascar in CR. I don't remember there being a trend for loud, printed shirts 10 years ago. Even if it was, it goes against good taste and doesn't suit Bond's personal style at all. This shirt is amongst the worst things Bond has ever worn.
As much as I hate that image of Bond, the first one after DC's introductory pre-title sequence, the garish shirt is actually appropriate for his likely cover in a stake-out, posing as an expat watching/gambling in a Mongoose vs. Cobra match in Madagascar. I think it's comparable to Brosnan and his printed shirt/half-bared wife-beater in Cuba, or a better comparison, the clothing style of the obnoxious tourist he punches out at the Cuban resort.
Along that line, as much as I hate Connery's terry-cloth onesie, I'm still open to the possibility that at the time, it might have been thought of as a kind of manly fashion chic, or maybe even something that was actually worn in trendy resorts...I don't know, really, I'd love to read whatever documentation the wardrobe team for GF left behind to explain for it, because it is a head-scratcher, again, in light of our contemporary sensibilities.
Not to excuse the way wardrobe dressed Dalton, but I remember reading in the earlier official EON books by Sally Hibbin and I think in “Dressed to Kill,” it was indeed Dalton’s input for Bond to sport RTW suits to disassociate his interpretation from the dapper version of the character instituted by the film series. Of course, we know it’s because he thoroughly dredged the depths of the Fleming books and sought to tap the complexity of the literary character and the nuances of his lifestyle, attitudes, internal conflicts, etc.
Short of knowing the actual interpolations Dalton made in that analysis, what we do know is that Fleming kept the tailoring details of Bond’s wardrobe as ambiguous as possible in contrast to that of other characters and he barely hinted about the Savile Row origins of Bond’s suits from OUTSIDE the Bond books. Very often, Bond is dressed down in the books; cinematically, would there be a fashion equivalent for sandal-accented ensembles? A sockless Dalton wearing a shapeless blazer in LTK’s “farewell to arms” scene and the tie-less look in the climax is an acceptable translation of literary Bond’s casual blue Sea Island shirts or to the extreme, the Elmer Fudd hunting clothes worn in FYEO. The deliberate effort is contrasted against the suits worn by M’s bodyguards and more so by the gentlemanly British agent working with Hong Kong Narcotics.
Did it work? Was it appropriate? For Dalton's chosen interpretation of Bond, yes, just as Craig took the same liberties to borrow from Bond’s literary roots in each of his 3 movies so far by dressing according to the situation (as said, garish expat shirt for Madagascar stake out, denim jeans in Jamaica and Bolivia, manly bar outfit chic for Turkish coastal resort, etc.)
However, see how EON took note of audiences’ disapproval with Dalton’s “authentic” approach by putting Brosnan in suits as much as possible even in inappropriate situations (St. Petersburg action scenes, infiltration of Tomorrow HQ, zipping along inside an oil pipeline), to reassure us that the Bond of old was back, like Connery dressing up nicely for the most mundane situations (on Goldfinger's jet enroute to Kentucky, preparing to watch the Junkanoo with the Largos, infiltrating Willard Whyte’s penthouse). This strategy was intermixed with Craig's dressing down, with him dressing up for Istanbul and running through London's crowded tube stations, etc., possibly because in large part (as it was after Dalton) there was a clamour to bring back "classic Bond" for the duration of Craig's tenure.
There are many others wearing solid shirts in the Madagascar scene, and Bond would have fit in just as much dressed like them without resorting to wearing such an awful shirt. When Bond is wearing clothes for a cover in the novels, there's always some of his personal taste in the clothes. Brosnan's Cuba outfit is almost as bad, and there's really no excuse there either.
The problem with the suits in LTK isn't that they're ready-to-wear suits, but that they're poorly fitted and are flashy and ultra fashionable. The ready-to-wear suits in The Living Daylights make more sense since they're not fashionable and less assuming.