Sad news. While I will always consider Connery to be Bond, my childhood was the Moore movies.
Love to hear your thought especially regarding his clothing.
Love to hear your thought especially regarding his clothing.
Nice blog post with great insight on his Bond wardrobe.This is very sad news. I posted a tribute to his style on my blog this morning: https://www.bondsuits.com/roger-moore-fashionable-bond-passed-away/
Excellent post in your blog Matt! A great tribute.This is very sad news. I posted a tribute to his style on my blog this morning: https://www.bondsuits.com/roger-moore-fashionable-bond-passed-away/
I wouldn't say his clothes were particularly trad (the jacket cuts and shirts were quite anti-trad), but they were very 1960s and so creative.RIP
For clothing, very trad clothing, his role as "The Saint" offered up his best wardrobe role as he had the unfortunate timing to play Bond in the sartorially challenged '70s. Also, "The Saint," for the time period, is a fun show with some amazing "guest stars."
I have no doubt you are correct, I was referring to things he wore in the show (from my long-ago memory banks) like Harrington Jackets, canvas sneakers, button-down-collared shirts, club ties, desert boots, etc. Of course, it was a British wardrobe overall, but my memory, as noted, was a lot of trad stuff also.I wouldn't say his clothes were particularly trad (the jacket cuts and shirts were quite anti-trad), but they were very 1960s and so creative.
No canvas sneakers (there were canvas espadrilles) and never button-down collared shirts (other men occasionally wore them) on the show for Roger Moore, but there was plenty of the rest. Those were all British items first before the trads appropriated them. Moore wore a navy blazer in half the episodes, but it wasn't a trad blazer with the highly swelled chest and ticket pocket. The colour episodes featured a lot of new Edwardian style.I have no doubt you are correct, I was referring to things he wore in the show (from my long-ago memory banks) like Harrington Jackets, canvas sneakers, button-down-collared shirts, club ties, desert boots, etc. Of course, it was a British wardrobe overall, but my memory, as noted, was a lot of trad stuff also.
I bow before superior knowledge as I know that my shaky old memory of the show can't hold a candle to your encyclopedia knowledge of it.No canvas sneakers (there were canvas espadrilles) and never button-down collared shirts (other men occasionally wore them) on the show for Roger Moore, but there was plenty of the rest. Those were all British items first before the trads appropriated them. Moore wore a navy blazer in half the episodes, but it wasn't a trad blazer with the highly swelled chest and ticket pocket. The colour episodes featured a lot of new Edwardian style.
I did find this picture ⇩ which the caption said was from "The Saint" show. No luck on the canvas sneakers yet - but if my memory is 50% accurate from so many years ago, I'll take it.No canvas sneakers (there were canvas espadrilles) and never button-down collared shirts (other men occasionally wore them) on the show for Roger Moore, but there was plenty of the rest. Those were all British items first before the trads appropriated them. Moore wore a navy blazer in half the episodes, but it wasn't a trad blazer with the highly swelled chest and ticket pocket. The colour episodes featured a lot of new Edwardian style.
The times, the writing, maybe his interpretation of the character, but his Bond movies were, for me (other than "The Spy Who Loved Me") the weakest ones, but that he embraced the roll afterwards says a lot.^ to be sure Moonraker and View To A Kill were among the worst Bond movies ever. That was not the fault of Roger Moore however. Unlike others, he seems to have had a lot of fun after no longer being the character and embracing it.
I remember a "Top Gear" special he did where they reviewed the Bond card and then tried making budget versions of them.
Well, there you go! That is from The Saint. His typical shirt in the black-and-white series had a semi-spread collar and double cuffs. He wore it with his suits, blazers and sports coats. That must have been a one-off. Moore regularly wore button-down collars in the mid '80s, but I'm not sure why. Frank Foster must have been going through a button-down phase, since Foster often gave Moore whatever he was into at the time.I did find this picture ⇩ which the caption said was from "The Saint" show. No luck on the canvas sneakers yet - but if my memory is 50% accurate from so many years ago, I'll take it.
And please understand, I am serious that your knowledge of this stuff is incredible and far superior to my surface / shaky memory - I just had a strong image of him in a button-down-collared shirt from the show in my head (also canvas sneakers - but, again, so far no luck finding that - there are many fewer pictures of his footwear out there).
And heck, the image of the button-down-collared shirt might not be from "The Saint," but based on how old he looks in it, it seems about the right time period.
Top Gear 50 Years of Bond Cars where Richard Hammond was trying to build a submarine Lotus car in the "The Spy Who Loves Me". TG cannot find the Lotus Esprit so they used a budget Lotus Excel instead.... I remember a "Top Gear" special he did where they reviewed the Bond card and then tried making budget versions of them.
His collars got taller and bigger overall in 1968 when Frank Foster started making his shirts. The tall collar helped make Moore's long neck look not so long, and by bringing the collar and tie closer to his face it helped draw attention to his face. His collars got even taller in The Spy Who Loved Me, which drew attention to itself due to its very long points. Starting in the 1980s with For Your Eyes Only, he wore tall spread collars (but not quite as tall as in the late 70s) that were very well-balanced to his face and neck. I think that these were the best for him.In his later Bond movies he did seem to wear an exceptionally high shirt collar - maybe a bit too high since it drew your eyes to it immediately. I always wondered why, since - to my knowledge - he didn't develop a 'chicken neck' or anything...?