The stripes on both suits are spaced no more than a half-inch apart. But even though the suits are both navy with pinstripes, the stripes are grey track stripes in Casino Royale whilst the stripes are light blue pinstripes in Quantum of Solace. She at least kept the suit a navy pinstripe to maintain a modicum of continuity between the films. A three-piece suit also would not have looked so great if Frogley was intent on Bond removing his tie. Perhaps she decided to put Bond in a two-piece suit rather than a three-piece suit because he hadn’t matured into the classic Bond character yet, because a three-piece suit didn’t fit the Lake Garda setting-it is much better suited for business setting in London-or because a two-piece suit worked more effectively for the intense action stunts. Lousie Frogley assumed the costume designer position for Quantum of Solace and abandoned Brioni for Tom Ford. This was a large step from being a man who we’re supposed to think didn’t own a proper dinner jacket earlier in the film. The two-piece suit in Quantum of Solaceįor the final scene of Casino Royale, costume designer Lindy Hemming dressed James Bond in a three-piece Brioni suit to signify that Daniel Craig’s new Bond had become the more sophisticated James Bond we knew from previous Bond films who takes pride in dressing up.
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These two suits are the only two in the series that can be fairly judged by comparison since story-wise they are supposed to be the same suit. The reason why James Bond is no longer wearing a waistcoat in Quantum of Solace is because a change in costume designer meant a reinterpretation of the Casino Royale outfit. Naturally if a man wants to shed a layer of his three-piece suit, he’s going to take off his suit jacket and not the waistcoat. Bond is supposed to be wearing the same three-piece suit from at the end of Casino Royale, but the change from a three-piece suit to a two-piece suit is not because we’re meant to think that James Bond removed his waistcoat. The pinstripe has reinvented itself.Quantum of Solace begins moments after Casino Royale ends with James Bond wearing a two-piece navy pinstripe suit. The old assumption that it is a banker’s suit has changed – even pop stars are wearing it now. “The pinstripe used to be about greed, but you can carry it differently now – and you should. Yet, as Baker-Collingwood says, this is fruitless. Pinstripe, in contrast, is an attempt to hark back to an age of haughtiness and tradition. The fighter Conor McGregor had a custom pinstripe made for his match against Floyd Mayweather, with the stripes spelling out “Fuck you” in a very tailored provocation of his opponent.įor politicians, the wearing of a pinstripe is a deliberate separation from the “centrist blue suit” – the navy blue cut so beloved by politicians such as Barack Obama and David Cameron in seemingly simpler, pre-Brexit, pre-Trump times. In addition to the former footballer, recent converts include the actor, writer, musician, activist and general cultural polymath Donald Glover, who was sporting a slick Gucci rendition at the Emmys. If all else fails, look to David Beckham. It’s a conspicuous fabric, so make sure you don’t over accessorise, and let the design work for you.
People shouldn’t be afraid of its business or even rightwing connotations – you can even pair it with trainers. The cloth has reinvented itself since then, though.
“We used to sell lots of pinstripe in the 80s, then the demand went down in the following decades, but now we’re back to selling it again. “Pinstripe is the fabric that refuses to die,” says Charlie Baker-Collingwood, founder of Henry Herbert tailors.
In recent years, the pinstripe has been reclaimed from stuffy devotees such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Gordon Gekko-style financiers and dictators such as Kim Jong-un. But, as with so many other things, Farage is very much out of step.
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