Interesting Call Back with NTTD Commando Sweater
ChadHahn
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I read a few days ago that Daniel Craig was in the BBC miniseries "Sword of Honor" based on the books by Evelyn Waugh that recount his time during WWII. In the show he wears an old style military sweater that has a draw string collar.
I wasn't able to find any photos of Craig in the sweater from the show. But I downloaded some photos of a reproduction of the sweater from the What Price Glory website.
I don't know if the idea to have James Bond wear a drawstring sweater was a nod to an early Daniel Craig role but I thought it was interesting. Until I started seeing the photos of the NTTD sweater I didn't know that some sweaters from WWII had that type collar.
I wasn't able to find any photos of Craig in the sweater from the show. But I downloaded some photos of a reproduction of the sweater from the What Price Glory website.
I don't know if the idea to have James Bond wear a drawstring sweater was a nod to an early Daniel Craig role but I thought it was interesting. Until I started seeing the photos of the NTTD sweater I didn't know that some sweaters from WWII had that type collar.
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Looks like it’s available to watch (in the U.K. anyway) on All 4:
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/sword-of-honour
ARMY
RAF
RN
Anyway, I had a quick skim through Sword Of Honour and I couldn't see a scene where Craig wears a woolly pully. He's got what looks like an olive cotton jumper in a couple of scenes but it's not the same, no shoulder patches, no drawstring. He does look fantastic in the show though, sort of surprised he wasn't marked out as a future Bond then.
The drawstring in the collar of the wooly pully is quite a common modification. I did it to mine, but the drawstring (or bootlace) was threaded through the collar from the inside. That way, when you put it on, and folded your shirt collar on the outside you could use the drawstring to close the collar tighter so it didn't look loose and untidy.
The wooly pully worn by Alfred is the v-neck version favoured by some officers in barrack dress.
My pulley from came today from Outdoor Knitwear: https://www.outdoorknitwear.com/crew-neck/106-bond-.html#/colour-navy/elbow_patches-yes/size-m
I have to preface that I don't have a Hollywood physique, but the chest suppression is pretty crazy and looked very silly on me indeed in sized medium, and I'm not a particularly big guy either.
Has anyone else had this experience?
It's tight on the chest?
Very
I doubt that it was meant to call back to an early, obscure Daniel Craig role so much as that specific style of sweater. Suttirat Anne Larlarb just thought it was a cool, old fashioned design that Bond would wear and commissioned N. Peal to reproduce it for NTTD.
https://www.npeal.com/journal/n-peal-launches-navy-ribbed-army-sweater-no-time-to-die/