Button down collar with double cuffs.

[Richard3]

Good morning Gentlemen, I have been watching this forum with increasing interest for a while now and think I might put my 0,2 cents in.

Regarding to Mr. Alden`s last post: I may be wrong but I think I have seen CG wearing white Brooks-Brothers-like bd shirt with single cuffs in both "Houseboat" and "North by Northwest" (in the last scenes).

PS: Kindly forgive me any mistakes in wirting. As an Austrian I am not a native speaker.

[exigent]

Good morning Gentleman, I have been watching this forum with increasing interest for a while now and think I might put my 0,2 cents in.

Regarding to Mr. Alden`s last post: I may be wrong but I think I have seen CG wearing white Brooks-Brothers-like bd shirt with single cuffs in both "Houseboat" and "North by Northwest" (in the last scenes).

PS: Kindly forgive me any mistakes in wirting. As an Austrian I am not a native speaker.

You are quite right: Grant did indeed wear a Brooks button-down shirt in the last scenes of North by Northwest. The discussion here concerns his pairing of a button-down collar with French cuffs, a style which many among us finds abhorrent. But Mr Alden has offered a worthy explanation of just how that particular choice came about....

Welcome to the forum, Richard!

[Richard3]

I was referring to Grant`s rule to pair white shirts only with french cuffs.

As he wore white shirts with single cuffs in both movies he must have made an exception of the said rule. I also remember pics of the older CG (taken by his then-girlfriend Maureen Donaldson) that show him wearing white single-cuff shirts.

[Cufflink79]

Wow this thread has really taken off. I think it is the longest thread in the lounge right now. I will have to do some investigating, but I recall Cary Grant wearing a BDC with FC in the movie "Mr. Blandings Bulids His Dream House".

Best Regards,

Cufflink79

[exigent]

I was referring to Grant`s rule to pair white shirts only with french cuffs.

As he wore white shirts with single cuffs in both movies he must have made an exception of the said rule. I also remember pics of the older CG (taken by his then-girlfriend Maureen Donaldson) that show him wearing white single-cuff shirts.

No argument: Grant did wear single cuffs with button-down shirts in the films that you list. But Mr Alden sought to explain why Grant wore a button-down shirt with French cuffs in Notorious--which rather validates your "exception" theory. And it is entirely possible that CG applied the strict white shirt with French cuffs rule earlier in his career, only to relax a bit in later efforts. After all, Fred Astaire became slightly enamored with Beatnik style in the early Sixties, a period during which he wore flowered accessories with his casual clothes. The enduring image I have of Cary Grant is of him sitting in the lobby of the George V reading the Herald Tribune; he was wearing an anthracite grey flannel suit, white shirt and silver necktie. I casually sat down next to the fellow and went to work on a sitrep for my boss. Grant was wearing a point collar with French cuffs--appropriately enough....

[ThomasG]

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