your favorite stylish moment on a movie?

[Guest]

one of the few i really enjoy are the following:

1. Casino, i like the part when De Niro is sitting in his office and his secretary calls him to announce the cowboy. then he stands and heads for his trousers, he is wearing boxers, long socks, shiny blue shoes, plus shirt and tie. i can't wait to have my own office.

2. breathless. Jean Paul Belmondo grabs a newspaper just to quickly shine his shoes, i can't see any other use for a newspaper either.

3. the intro of the avengers, i know it's TV but the champagne, the bowler hat, the umbrella, the rose on the lapel, plus Emma peel. it's just perfect.

4.the short jacket scene on North by Northwest, and the shirt and loafers at the end.

5. 8 1/2, divorce Italian style and dolce vita, i like everything about this movies, especially 8 1/2, Mastroianni was my first sartorial hero.

i wonder what are your favorite moments. Can you share them?

[TimMureau]

In the tailor of panama you can see a lot of moments that Pierce Brosnan is fitted at the tailor. I think that also has something stylish.

[storeynicholas]

Difficult to select: two very different moments:

First moment for me - in the 1956 film, based on the true 1939 engagement, before the Battle of the River Plate, the Commodore keeps badgering Captain Bell of HMS Exeter for his 'list of spares'. After HMS Exeter has drawn the Admiral Graff Spee's fire (and suffered huge damage herself), enabling Ajax and Achilles to get close enough to inflict heavy damage on the Graff Spee, Bell sends a message to the Commodore, seeking permission to retire to the Falklands and asking also to 'revise list of spares'

Second moment for me must be when Eliza Doolittle comes down the stairs in her ball gown and jewels towards Higgins and Colonel Pickering in the film of My Fair Lady.
NJS

[Guest]

i got another one that is mostly funny. i now declare this bridge open, in the Beatles movie Hard Days Night, which involves a tailor's tape and some scissors. well the whole movie is really stylish.

[Cufflink79]

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) = Tommy in his office getting tailored while chit chatting in a meeting. Another scene from the movie (it is quick and you don't see much of it though) is when Catherine Banning is looking for the painting and she is in Mr. Crown' s closet.

Trading Places (1983) = In the beginning of the movie when Coleman the butter opens up Mr. Winthorpe's closet. There is a Dobbs hat box in there as well.

The Great Gatsby (1974) = Jay Gatsby throwing his shirts into the air for Daisy. The shirts wear from T&A.

Die Another Day (2002) = After 007 escapes from captivity from MI6 he heads off to the HONG KONG YACTH CLUB, in which he checks into his suite and ask for some food and his tailor. The next scene shows any array of clothing while he returns to his clean shaven self.

The Sopranos (1999 - 2007) = A scene in which Uncle Junior is getting fitted for a bespoke suit. If I remember it was a navy chalk stripe, 2 on 6 DB with side vents. While getting the jacket fitted he is in his boxers.

Goodfellas (1990) = Henry Hill looking for something to wear while standing in front of a rainbow of suits in his closet. (Quick scene though)

The Good Shepherd (2006) = Edward Wilson at the tailor shop stating what type of suits he'd like to order. (it was a secret code)

Frasier (1993 - 2004) = There was an episode in which Niles is getting ready to go the wine club and his girlfriend Mel comes in to pick out a tie for him to wear. (The closet was about the size of a whole room):D

Those are a few of my favorites, I'm sure I'll find and think of more.

Best Regards,

Cufflink79

[marcelo]

Death in Venice, by Luchino Visconti. The moment Aschenbach (Dick Bogarde) gets dressed for dinner at the Lido.

[schneidergott]

Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum in "What a way to go".
It's the scene where he stays in white tie outfit and she changes dress every 5 sec.
I saw that movie years ago, so please don't nail me on the "white tie" or 5 sec.


SG

[masterfred]

I don't know how to embed video here - perhaps the forum software doesn't have the capability - but one of my favorite little scenes is the "Looking for a Needle in a Haystack" number in The Gay Divorcee. Astaire tries out ties, dances a bit, puts a boutonniere in his lapel, and heads out into the London streets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SeWxgC0TWk

[marcelo]

Dear masterfred,
that's a great clip, thanks.
Does any one know how to select a scene from a DVD film and make it then available at e.g. Youtube? It would be interesting if we could provide a link directing to the sequences referred to here in this thread.

[ottovbvs]

1. The opening sequence of The Magnificent Ambersons directed by Orson Welles when Welles narrates the changes in fashions in the late 19th Century while Joseph Cotton does quick changes between all the styles.

2. The dressing sequence at the start of Dangerous Liaisons when Malkovitch and Close don their wardrobe for the day.

3. The early scene in A Bridge Too Far when the Colonel, can't remember his name, played by Anthony Hopkins tells his batman to pack his mess kit for the airborne assault as the regiment will almost certainly dining in that evening.

[Cary Grant]

Not a specific moment perse, but anytime I watch any of The Thin Man movies I lust after much of the wardrobe.

[ottovbvs]

Not a specific moment perse, but anytime I watch any of The Thin Man movies I lust after much of the wardrobe.

I'm a third man fan too, it's on my list of Five favorite movies. Harry Lime wears a trilby in the classic FDR style with brim turned up all around. In fact this is how most people wore that style of hat in the 20s/30s although this movie is set in around 1946, the turn down front brim seemed to come in with the gangster movies from Hollywood. Oddly Germans seemed to like to turn their brims down on the side. There are a few pics around of Goring in civvies sporting this style. The FDR trilby which is a classic Lock hat, I have one, is a great chapeau. On the subject of the third man I was alway rather smitten with the female lead Alida Valli who only died last year I think . She was an Italian countess.

[Guest]

have you guys seen Sean Penn on carlitos's way, specially the scene where he is jail with a client, he is wearing a gray three piece suit with a green tie. i think i was 18 when i first saw the movie thinking "something is different here, why is he well dressed, i haven't seen anybody dressed like that since i was a child" well he is a crooked lawyer.

Also, in the movie Constantin, there's some fine moments, specially Gavin Rossdale as Balthazar, if i was a demon i would dressed impeccably like him.

Alain Delon adjusting his hat on the samurai, those trench coats are really useful.

l'avventura from the early 60's is an incredible stylish film. everyone dresses good in that film, even if they're on some island off Sicily.

the last scene of ocean's 11, many gray and dark suits.

[ottovbvs]

Not a specific moment perse, but anytime I watch any of The Thin Man movies I lust after much of the wardrobe.

How stupido of me I read it as "Third Man" not "Thin Man." Yep William Powell looks pretty good. The dog and Myrna are pretty cute too.

[marcelo]

The Great Gatsby (1974) = Jay Gatsby throwing his shirts into the air for Daisy. The shirts wear from T&A.

For the sartorially conscious man, one of the most inspiring passages in the American literature.

Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.
“I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.”
He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.”

(F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, chapter 5)