Clothing from Dr. No
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Have been watching Dr. No Blu Ray last night on the brand new 52" LCD.
Has anyone information, which brand the blue Poloshirts in the Jamaica scenes has been. My guess from memory was Lacoste, but there are 2 things, which speak against it:
1. the buttons are brown or black (well yes, I don't need HD to discover this 8-) )
2. the fabric is not really plain. There is a kind of bigger waffer structure (roughtly 3x3 cm) visible, I have never recognized this before.
Did T&A do Poloshirts at that time?
One thing to the speculations regarding the dress watch. which can be seen in the Casino and appartment scenes:
Having seen the Cartier Santos on Terence Young's wrist on interviews, I'd assume, that it's not a continuity error.
I am aware, that the budget of the movie was tight, but I won't be surprised, that TY deliberately chose a more elegant watch when 007 wears tux and the Sub when he's going into the field.
Thus, it may be TY's own watch that we seen in the Pinewood scenes, it could also be Ken Adam's style for example.
Just a thought as every piece of wardrobe seems to be so well-chosen.
Has anyone information, which brand the blue Poloshirts in the Jamaica scenes has been. My guess from memory was Lacoste, but there are 2 things, which speak against it:
1. the buttons are brown or black (well yes, I don't need HD to discover this 8-) )
2. the fabric is not really plain. There is a kind of bigger waffer structure (roughtly 3x3 cm) visible, I have never recognized this before.
Did T&A do Poloshirts at that time?
One thing to the speculations regarding the dress watch. which can be seen in the Casino and appartment scenes:
Having seen the Cartier Santos on Terence Young's wrist on interviews, I'd assume, that it's not a continuity error.
I am aware, that the budget of the movie was tight, but I won't be surprised, that TY deliberately chose a more elegant watch when 007 wears tux and the Sub when he's going into the field.
Thus, it may be TY's own watch that we seen in the Pinewood scenes, it could also be Ken Adam's style for example.
Just a thought as every piece of wardrobe seems to be so well-chosen.
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Hello big guy. Can't help you with respect to polo-shirt. If it was Lacoste, they pulled the crocodile off the shirt. It does look like the same pique material though and Lacoste polo's are my personal favorite. I still wear them, but I hate the fact that they went to the even hem. Since IZOD stopped making them here in the States, the long tail was removed and they jacked up the price . They went from $30.00 to $40.00 to near $80.00 per shirt. Nevertheless, I still buy them as they are my favorite of all the offerings. Can't escape the prep-edemic.
As for the gold watch, well it is a distinct possibility. However, I think the gold watch also shows up in non TY productions like Goldfinger. I suspect it was Connery's personal watch, but I don't have a stick of evidence to support it nor do I care that much. The counter argument that the gold watch is a Rolex falls flat becuase it is never shown to be a Rolex on screen, likewise it's never even given a close-up.
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
greetings back from another Lacoste-admirer. Pulling off the crocodile, that's what I am doing since 30 years
We are paying almost US$ 180 for a shirt here
As said, the light chequered structure in the fabric and the dark buttons speak strongly against Lacoste.
Regarding the dress watch, the SC personal watch theory sounds good to me, however I can't see the watch close enough to be 100% sure, that the watch in GF and YOLT are really the same.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Now it's bestiality 8-) Your antics never cease to amaze and disgust.
That's something I never even saw Steve Irwin do. Maybe there's a shot at a cable show.
That's very interesting. I once took the crocodile off an old shirt and wore it on my toga at a toga party at prep school. It was quite a hit. The whole logo thing is quite interesting in it's self. Rene Lacoste was called "le crocodile" because of his combativeness on the tennis courts during the 20's and 30's. The crocodile became his personal symbol. In Allen Flusser's Dressing The Man, there is a picture of Lacoste wearing a terry cloth robe with a gigantic crocodile on the breast pocket. Perhaps Ralph Lauren is ape-ing this look with his gigantic polo player polo shirts.
The point of course, is that the crocodile was Lacoste's personal symbol. Although, I will most likely continue to wear my Lacoste shirts with the crocodile because it's such a classic, I also believe that men should have their own style and sport there own personal symbols or logos. It's all about personal style, not fashion.
As for Connery wearing Lacoste in Dr. No, I doubt it. However there was an interesting article posted over at the RPF about the props and clothing in the series Mad Men. One of the sources for the look of the time (60's) are old Playboy magazines. If you want to see vintage Lacoste form back in the day to definitively rule them out, that's probably the best source.
As for the gold watch, you absolutely have a point. But the same could be said for the Submariner, it could have been different ones in each movie. However all these years later we know Connery wore a Rolex Submariner, but we don't know what the gold watch was. If the gold watch was indeed chosen as part of the wardrobe for the Connery Bond, how come we are never shown that it is indeed a Rolex or some other brand? Pre-production planning confirms that they were quite carefull in choosing the Rolex as a brand for Connery and the Submariner can be confirmed by the case, the crown and ultimately the dial yet the gold watch is never seen very clearly.
Of course anything is possible, but direct evidence trumps hearsay.
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.