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I realised what I don't like about the suit - firstly the waistcoat, but also the colour doesn't suit Craig. He looks fantastic with the overcoat, but the black suit + waistcoat and big tie makes him look too blocky.
Perhaps he'll wear a ruff to dinner in SP.
Perhaps he will. :)
Well, I am a "red blooded hetro sexual" and have to ask, what the hell are you talking about?
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Congratulations on your preferences @ talos but I was picking up on RC7's inspired comment that by adding grey hair and a wig DC's attire would be a dead ringer for Karl Largerfeld's staple look.
Furthermore, IVNSHO, his outfit displays a certain gay sensibility.
This was certainly not a derogatory remark. It is simply not the way Ian Fleming created Bond and for my part, I prefer that we stick with Fleming's original concept.
Continuing in that vein we should therefore suggest we find 007 a bespoke navy blue single breasted suit that fits him immaculately. I have suggested Anderson & Sheppard but there are other great tailors on the row - Ian never actually specified his tailor.Top it off with a white or pale blue shirt from Turnbull & Asser with a medium spread collar. Get him a few black knitted silk ties and some decent black slip on dress shoes with reinforced steel toe caps.
We should accessorise him with a 1953 Rolex Oyster Perpetual on a steel braclet and send him out to do business for HMSS.
This would be Bond, save the Largerfeld type outfits for some other type of hero which I would have nothing at all against providing they don't call him James Bond.
Your remakes are out dated and offensive.
http://thesuitsofjamesbond.com/a-first-look-at-spectres-suits/
I think I'd agree with the view that fit-wise the suit in Rome is an improvement on the Pee Wee Herman suits of SF, but the look as a whole has too many flashy, incoherent elements for my tastes.
Good to see Cocktail Cuffs back though :D
I really would like to see Craig in a conservatively cut single breasted pinstripe. I think it would really contrast with his rugged look, accentuate his height, and deliver the right debonair presence Bond should have. Also, I personally prefer Oxfords to any boots thank you very much.
I like Bale's outfit below as an example (although I realize it has peak lapels). His sleeves are a bit too long but otherwise it's great imo. Hardy does not look too bad either, for a smaller, stockier fella. Like the trouser cuff width on both compared to what I've seen Craig in recently:
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I don't mind Craig's outfit in either of the two photos below. Notice the trouser cuff width compared to some of the new photos we've been seeing:
I agree @Sark. I liked the suits in Kingsman very much, but I'm afraid that look would be considered too conservative for Bond today.
Having said that, what he is wearing in Italy is too far in the other direction imo. I prefer the middle ground, as presented in my post above.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the reason why Bond said this to Silva, was because he was also tied to a chair while being tortured by Le Chiffre. I hadn't even thought about it until someone pointed it out.
Absolutely right. I noticed that when I saw the film actually. SF was full of homages (there were so many subtle homages of sorts) and I felt that scene also was reflecting back on CR to an extent.
I think the length of the suit is fine but I don't like double breasted suits and coats. For some reason I think that Craig looks stylish even though I disagree with pretty much everything he is wearing and don't wear double breasted suits and coats and boots with chrome buckles myself. Yes, they made a number of mistakes in the Moore era but one would hope that they finally began to get these things right. Bond is supposed to have a refined, timeless style which he doesn't in these SPECTRE photos. Yes, amongst a number of flaws, the trousers are too short. The aviators in QOS were wrong for Bond too.
Of course, we don't expect them to listen to us, we're just here to give our opinion on all things Bond. :) I can kind of understand where they are coming from though. He needs to be made to look a cut above the rest. Many other characters wear suits in films. This could have been achieved though with normal black shoes and the pocket strip instead of the fancy triangular one and notch lapels.
Your remakes are out dated and offensive.
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I'm sorry if @JCRendle finds my "remakes" offensive, it certainly was not my intention.
The point I was trying to make is that I found the Rome outfit a little fey. In fact the boots look suspiciously like a pair sported by one of the "Village People" in a famous pop music video -
certainly not correct for Bond even with this ill fitting suit.
That said, if his next move is to escape on a motorcycle, perhaps the choice is understandable?
On another note, I'm impatient to see M's attire. I thought his suit in SKYFALL was quite magnificent and hopefully his tailor has been retained for the current epic.
I'm thinking this could be the case. After all, we know whose funeral Bond is attending so would make sense he'd want to blend in with the locals.
I'm sorry if @JCRendle finds my "remakes" offensive, it certainly was not my intention. [/quote] Darn autocorrect - that's what I get for replying on my phone. I understand what you're saying, I think it was the wording more than anything that I took issue with. But it's water under the bridge :) Yes, it'll be interesting to see what M's wearing - and Q for that matter, I wonder if they'll go Geek Chic again, or go for a lab coat look?
Indeed, with Kingsmen being the success that it is I don't see why a more conservative/traditional style wouldn't work for Bond.
Time well tell.
Today we can look back at at the clothes in DN, FRWL & Goldfinger (one piece terry toweling pool suit excluded) with considerable affection and with minor adjustments the styles are imminently wearable today.
Fast forward just five years and I have a strong feeling that we will be watching poor old Danny bouncing around in his Rome ensemble with our hands over our eyes.
The makers really should be made to write a thousand lines each repeating; "James Bond is all about understated, refined style and we must try harder."