What was Bond's worst wardrobe?
Seahawk
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One area where I am experiencing a certain degree of disquiet in the run up to QoS is some of the confirmed elements of Bond's wardrobe.
To my mind white Levis are simply not Bond & I keep remembering Dennis Norden's adage that "Middle Age is that time of life when, no matter where in the world you go, you always pack a cardigan."
Bond packs one to go to South America in this film.
To be fair I was never convinced that Brioni,Omega & BMW'S were very Bond either.
This got me thinking which of the Bond films to date has Bond most looking as though he got dressed in the dark?
For myself there is one outstanding example of a Bond film that style forgot. The one with the white Dinner Jacket. The one with the white suit & pink tie. The one with the plaid jacket & polo neck combo.
The sartorial disaster that is DAF.
What would be your choice?
To my mind white Levis are simply not Bond & I keep remembering Dennis Norden's adage that "Middle Age is that time of life when, no matter where in the world you go, you always pack a cardigan."
Bond packs one to go to South America in this film.
To be fair I was never convinced that Brioni,Omega & BMW'S were very Bond either.
This got me thinking which of the Bond films to date has Bond most looking as though he got dressed in the dark?
For myself there is one outstanding example of a Bond film that style forgot. The one with the white Dinner Jacket. The one with the white suit & pink tie. The one with the plaid jacket & polo neck combo.
The sartorial disaster that is DAF.
What would be your choice?
Comments
Rest of LTK's apparel is fine, just not the tacky beginning.
To my mind, the title of worst wardrobe goes to either MWTGG or TLD: the clothes in MWTGG actually aren't bad, but they more instantly date the film than any other in the series. And while I appreciate Dalton's idea that Bond's clothes should be off-the-rack so as not to attract attention, I don't know that that should equate to ill-fitting, as much of his wardrobe is in TLD (particularly his tux, which is a huge "no-no").
To be fair to Dalton in TLD he was cast so close to the beginning of shooting that they did not have time to get his suits made to measure. PB had been measured for the suits and then lost the role.
Many outfits can be excused as fashion statements of the day in the films, but this one was truely dreadful.
Coming after the disasterous Pink Tie & dodgy wig of DAF it made a striking contrast. It's a pity that the worst features of mid-late seventies fashion featured quite so heavily from there on in... but the films were 'of their time' and were trying to appear modern rather than stylish (stylish ages better)
I would probably have to go with either DAF or TMWTGG as my least favourite film overall for wardrobe.
Yeah, what the heck WAS that thing, anyway?