One Dress a Day Challenge
September: Bond Films
Dr. No / Sean Connery as James Bond
I simply have to start the month of Bond with the suit he wears on his very first appearance: a "dinner suit" (tuxedo) by Anthony Sinclair. As the site Bondsuits.com puts it: "It set an unbelievable standard for evening wear that never has been achieved again. The look has a 1930s timelessness to it, with the daring update of no waistcoat or cummerbund. The dinner jacket has the creative detail of gauntlet (turnback) cuffs, while the bow tie is an unusual narrow diamond-point variant. It’s an interesting look that stands the test of time."
We see later that he (very correctly) wears the tuxedo with a velvet-collared evening overcoat and a black Homburg hat.
Bondsuits also has a full, detailed writeup of the suit's individual components here:
Sean Connery’s James Bond is introduced to us in 1962 in Dr. No wearing a traditional midnight blue shawl-collar dinner suit (tuxedo for the
