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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 1, 2023 15:59:27 GMT
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jun 1, 2023 16:09:08 GMT
When I met my 5'11" girlfriend, it was the winter and she was wearing a long camel hair coat and a black turtleneck - she cut (and still cuts) quite a figure. She made a statement just walking into a room in that outfit.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 1, 2023 16:11:27 GMT
When I met my 5'11" girlfriend, it was the winter and she was wearing a long camel hair coat and a black turtleneck - she cut (and still cuts) quite a figure. She made a statement just walking into a room in that outfit.
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 1, 2023 16:17:42 GMT
I never cared one way or another about camel hair coats until I saw Dylan McDermott wear one in "Miracle On 34th Street".  Looked a lot better and warmer than the winter coat I had at the time. I told my wife I'd like to get a coat like that. And she said, "If you can look as good in it as HE does, I'll buy it!"  Sepiatone |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jun 1, 2023 17:40:46 GMT
Thanks for posting the Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura image on the "Hair Salon" thread, FadingFast.
You are right -- Takakura looks great in the grey herringbone sport coat. I might add that Mitchum looks pretty darn good in the turtleneck sweater and corduroy pants in that pic. Mitchum also wears a very pretty charcoal suit in the film. I also seem to remember that Brian Keith wears an ascot in this film, which is awesome.
Dorothy Jeakins was the costume designer for The Yakuza.
This is my favorite Mitchum post 60s films. Fine cast of English speaking and Japanese actors, with a solid storyline, the right amount of action scenes and the theme of west-meets-east, which I can completely relate to growing up with a Japanese mom and American dad during the 70s.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 1, 2023 17:54:13 GMT
The Yakuza is the only English language film I have heard of that features a character with the same first name as my mom, Eiko. My mom spells her name the same as the character and not like the actress, Keiko. (The pronunciation is the same). Keiko looks very similar to how my mom looked (physically as well as in style\cloths) until she decided she wished to look like Jackie Kennedy as a way to be more accepted in So Cal.
This is my favorite Mitchum post 60s films. Fine cast of English speaking and Japanese actors, with a solid storyline, the right amount of action scenes and the theme of west-meets-east, which I can completely relate to growing up with a Japanese mom and American dad during the 70s.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 9, 2023 11:29:26 GMT
Continuing for a bit on our theme of camel hair overcoats, of which "polo coats," depending on the specific details, are a subset, once you start to notice them in movies, you'll be amazed at how popular the were from the 1930s-50s with both men and women regularly wearing them.
In 1949's "All the King's Men" both Broderick Crawford (he's not in this first pic, he's in the second and third ones) and Joanne Dru wear one.
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Post by sagebrush on Jun 9, 2023 11:35:06 GMT
I had a camel hair coat once. Boy, they are heavy! We are so spoiled today with our high-tech nylon materials that weigh 2oz and keep us warm in sub-zero temperatures, but you can't beat the camel hair coat when it comes to style!
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jun 10, 2023 14:46:19 GMT
Coats played such a big role in the movies. Just think about how many times you have heard the dialogue, "I'll get my hat and coat". Or how many times you've seen a woman wearing a coat on a day that looks like she certainly doesn't need one.
In BUtterfield 8 (1960), Dina Merrill's character has a coat closet, from which Elizabeth Taylor's character selects that damned, fateful fur.
Helen Rose did a knockout job on the coats in the film. Taylor wears several.
Cashmere with fur trim
Fur trimmed tweed (and Laurence Harvey's double breasted overcoat here is grand as well.)
Orange wool swing coat (love me a swing coat!)
Fur trimmed wool
And the final yellow wool car coat
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 10, 2023 15:15:12 GMT
Spot on comments. They even considered changing the title of the movie to "The Fur That Ended a Marriage."
Kidding aside, there is an incredible amount of style in the movie. Didn't Fisher's girlfriend, played by Susan Oliver, get so jealous that she tried to wear one of Taylor's dresses? I think I'm messing up the details of that scene, but something like that happened, no?  Plus, talking about style, how cute is Taylor's Sunbeam Alpine in the movie:
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jun 10, 2023 16:14:48 GMT
Kidding aside, there is an incredible amount of style in the movie. Didn't Fisher's girlfriend, played by Susan Oliver, get so jealous that she tried to wear one of Taylor's dresses? I think I'm messing up the details of that scene, but something like that happened, no?
And yes -- such a shame what happens to that Sunbeam. (Oh, and Gloria, too.) |
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 10, 2023 16:25:13 GMT
Kidding aside, there is an incredible amount of style in the movie. Didn't Fisher's girlfriend, played by Susan Oliver, get so jealous that she tried to wear one of Taylor's dresses? I think I'm messing up the details of that scene, but something like that happened, no?
And yes -- such a shame what happens to that Sunbeam. (Oh, and Gloria, too.)
And yes, it was a not-nice death for the Sunbeam and ET.
The movie is based on a book (comments here: "Butterfield 8") by John O'Hara, which in turn, is his imagined fictionalized account of the story of Starr Faithful, a NYC party girl of the 1920s who was found washed up dead on a Long Island beach in 1931.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jun 10, 2023 16:27:29 GMT
Perhaps I should mention that Laurence Harvey looks phenomenal in BUtterfield 8 as well.
(Wish I could find a better pic of his beautiful sweater, but sitting next to Dina Merrill ain't too shabby.)
There's a scene in the film with Liggett and Gloria at the marina in which Laurence Harvey is wearing a hat. I don't care for the hat, and it just seems a shame to cover his perfectly coiffed hair. Perhaps this is the only fashion misstep in the film?
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 10, 2023 16:34:51 GMT
Dina Merrill is so pretty that it's a little hard to concentrate when she's on screen. I've often wondered why she didn't have a bigger career.
Harvey had a singularly impressive head of hair. It is unlike anyone else's hair. He should get a mention over in the Hair Salon thread.
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Post by NoShear on Jun 11, 2023 14:09:27 GMT
BunnyWhit, I will leave you to better describe Elizabeth Taylor's beautiful blouse in SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER should you like:
From my viewpoint, her two-tone outfit seems more modern than its intended 1937 period which initially misled me to think that the 1959 film was set during the time it was shot. |
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