Justified’s sixth episode “The Collection” established Timothy Olyphant’s off-duty formula as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens: plaid shirts open over henleys with his usual cowboy hat, boots, and indigo Levi’s 501 jeans.
Costume design by Ane Crabtree.
Daniel Craig (born today in 1968) reprised Benoit Blanc last year in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery—working with costume designer Jenny Eagan to follow ‘70s inspo from Yves Saint Laurent in Blanc’s golden windowpane three-piece suits worn with patterned ties, Chelsea boots, and trench coat.
For the 1978 adaptation of Death on the Nile, Anthony Powell’s Oscar-winning costume design included Andrew Pennington’s brown-on-brown stripe half-Norfolk jacket, straw homburg, and a blue shirt with contrasting club collar, worn by George Kennedy, who died 10 years ago today on February 28, 2016.
Born 94 years ago today on February 26, 1932, Johnny Cash took the stage at San Quentin two days before his 37th birthday in 1969—wearing a matching midnight frock coat and waistcoat, sky-blue French-cuff shirt, and striped trousers—to record his second album performed live with a prison audience.
“Diane…11:30 a.m., February 24th, entering the town of Twin Peaks.”
In his Bureau-approved black wool suit with conservative shirts, classic ties, and Buddhist pin in his lapel, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (@kylemaclachlan.bsky.social) fatefully arrived in Twin Peaks today in 1989.
Released 30 years ago today in 1996, Bottle Rocket launched the careers of director Wes Anderson and actors Luke and Owen Wilson.
As small-time crook Dignan, Owen wears the same vintage terry-lined Jantzen cabana shirt from Anderson’s 1992 short, with white trousers and a black Casio G-Shock watch.
Across the 1st season of The Pitt, costume designer Lyn Paolo dressed Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) for functional—and regionally informed—comfort in his Beers of the Burgh zip-up hoodie with black FIGS scrub top, brown Carhartt work pants, black @newbalance.bsky.social 990v5s, and Seiko SRPG35 field watch.
Déjà Vu (2006) begins on Fat Tuesday as ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) joins a time-warping task force investigating a New Orleans ferry explosion. Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick dressed Doug in a cozily oversized brown suede jacket with sport shirts and a Fortis Cosmonauts Chronograph.
Across the last half of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, released 50 years ago today in 1976, L.A. cabaret owner Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) subdues his typically flashier style with a navy serge peak-lapel suit and mint open-neck shirt—accented with his usual diamond pinky ring and gold wristwatch.
Inspired by actual events and released 40 years ago on Valentine’s Day 1986, The Delta Force stars Chuck Norris as a U.S. commando deployed against a group of aircraft hijackers.
Norris’ character arrives in Beirut wearing a belted khaki safari jacket, black Reebok sneakers, and Timex Camper watch.
Born 100 years ago today in 1926, Leslie Nielsen’s comedic second act took flight with Airplane! (1980) as Dr. Rumack, whose deadpan delivery was as serious as his style: a brown pinstripe three-piece suit with an always-buttoned jacket and coordinated striped tie.
And don’t call him Shirley.
Taxi Driver was released 50 years ago in February 1976.
As loner cabbie and war veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) grows increasingly paranoid, he adopts a more militant image in an olive M65 field jacket concealing his self-rigged system of holsters, dark Lee jeans, cowboy boots… and a mohawk.
Born 85 years ago today, Nick Nolte’s wardrobe in The Good Thief—Neil Jordan’s 2002 remake of Bob le flembeur—could be described as “Bob le flamboyant”, anchored by wild geometric-printed shirts under black leather jackets like this bomber-style blouson plus a hefty turquoise-detailed belt buckle.
Zabriskie Point premiered today in 1970, starring non-professional actor Mark Frechette as a disillusioned revolutionary dressed in the aged anonymity of a faded pale-blue two-pocket shirt, gray work trousers, and tan roughout lace-up boots repurposed as an ankle holster for his snub-nosed .38.
In @realgdt.bsky.social’s 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein, Kate Hawley’s Oscar-nominated costume design blends Regency and rock star influences for Oscar Isaac’s Byronic style as Victor: a black frock coat, velvet waistcoat, red kerchief, billowing blouse, and gold signet ring with his family crest.
On the first anniversary of Gene Hackman’s January 30, 1930 birthday since the actor’s death at age 95 last year, read how he dressed up a weathered brown leather jacket with shirts and ties as 1950s Indiana basketball coach and Navy veteran Norman Dale in Hoosiers (1986).
Happy 90th birthday to Alan Alda!
Born January 28, 1936, the actor’s 1981 directorial debut The Four Seasons followed a group of seasonal vacationers, ending with Alda’s character dressed for winter après-ski in a cream, olive, black, and gray sweater with a stone parka and brown corduroy trousers.
In the Oscar-nominated Train Dreams (2025), laconic logger Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) is dressed by costume designer Malgosia Turzanska in heritage workwear to fit the early 20th century Pacific Northwest setting—from a Wabash chore coat and felt crusher hat to custom White’s caulk boots.
Remembering the great Paul Newman, born 101 years ago today on January 26, 1925.
A Navy veteran who served in World War II before his celebrated acting career, Newman was photographed by Sanford Roth in 1956 while wearing his hardy N-1 deck jacket.
Born 80 years ago today on January 24, 1946, Michael Ontkean co-starred on Twin Peaks as Sheriff Harry S. Truman—dressed as a modern, quasi-western lawman in his pinched-front cowboy hat, khaki shirt and slacks, pendant necklaces, harness boots, and distinctive mid-century brown flecked car coat.
Played by @kylemaclachlan.bsky.social, Special Agent Dale Cooper’s first major on-screen departure from his usual black suits and ties is the blue nylon coach-style FBI raid jacket he layers over sweaters and cargo pants during an investigation into the woods during the first season of Twin Peaks 👍
Today would’ve been the late auteur David Lynch’s 80th birthday.
In addition to co-creating Twin Peaks, Lynch appeared in the second season as FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole—always sporting the Bureau’s trademark black suit with a slim black tie and his ever-present hearing aid.
Born 122 years ago today on January 18, 1904, screen and style icon Cary Grant’s second collaboration with director @alfredhitchcock.bsky.social was the 1946 espionage thriller Notorious—dressed for a party in postwar Rio in a handsomely tailored dark wool three-piece dinner suit.
Our Man Flint was released 60 years ago on January 16, 1966, starring James Coburn as the titular playboy spy Derek Flint.
Flint’s wardrobe includes a smartly tailored black wool/mohair tuxedo, which he creatively wears with a cream shirt, navy and scarlet silk pocket squares, and suede loafers.
The Grey (2011) stars Liam Neeson dressed to survive the wintry Alaskan wilderness in a khaki parka with a fur-trimmed hood over hardy layers like a zip-up hoodie, gray shawl-collar sweater, olive henley, and Carhartt work pants with a gray ribbed beanie, hybrid work boots, and convertible gloves.
Sean Connery’s first role after officially retiring from 007 was in The Offence—released today in 1973—as veteran Berkshire detective-sergeant Johnson, sporting a sheepskin coat over his brown Prince of Wales check suit with a cream poplin shirt, knitted tie, and herringbone trilby.
In the 1979 comedy Chilly Scenes of Winter, Charles Robinson (John Heard) makes the case for keeping that well-worn old favorite sweater, layering his moth-eaten maroon V-neck over a white thermal T-shirt—and sometimes also a blue chambray shirt—and paired with his usual Levi’s jeans and wool socks.
Ben Johnson’s natty 1930s wardrobe as Melvin Purvis in Dillinger (1973) reflected the real-life agent’s style, including the indigo-adjacent blue-gray chalkstripe double-breasted suit he wears with black homburg and bulletproof vest during the siege on Wilbur Underhill, who died 92 years ago today.
Happy 95th birthday to Robert Duvall!
In the final act of The Killer Elite (1975), he sports elevated naval-inspired workwear: a blue CPO-style snap-up jacket over a striped two-pocket shirt, open at the neck to show a printed day cravat, tucked into creased jeans and topped with a black watch cap.
Concluding 50 years ago with a bicentennial boxing match on New Year’s Day, ROCKY (1976) stars Sylvester Stallone wearing the actor’s own black leather jacket from Bond’s Fifth Avenue with black Levis STA-Prest jeans, a charcoal-blue felt trilby, and a worn-in rotation of sweatshirts and sweaters.
