I enjoyed the Armani-clad guys in the Untouchables. Also loved the Dunhill sporting crooks in Snatch.

 

Mob movies can be great examples of the disconnect between fit and sihouette. De Niro's clothes, in Goodfellas, were made by Henry Stewart and fit flawlessly. But they were otherwise ghastly. Ditto the stuff in Casino (not by Stewart, he was dead by then): outstanding fit, somewhat out-there taste.

 

Though I could never pull the look off myself, I love the somewhat frumpy, rather ill-fitted yet interesting black suits that Beat Takeshi wears in his yakuza movies (all by Yohji Yamamoto).

 

Michael Corleone in blazer & ascot

 

Michael Corleone in blazer & ascot

I'll second this - and also the suit he wore in the closing scene(s) of the first Godfather.

 

Anything worn by DeNiro in Casino.

Modeled after the single color outfit motif that Capone liked.

And btw, DeNiro in the last scene wearing the shirt with the white collar, unbuttoned (sort of a banker on his day off look) was brilliant, especially the symbolism of graduating from the drippy Vegas look to a more mature, "now I'm just a bookie, not a gangster" look.

Everything about the wardrobe in that film is spot on!

 

Anything worn by DeNiro in Casino.

Modeled after the single color outfit motif that Capone liked.

And btw, DeNiro in the last scene wearing the shirt with the white collar, unbuttoned (sort of a banker on his day off look) was brilliant, especially the symbolism of graduating from the drippy Vegas look to a more mature, "now I'm just a bookie, not a gangster" look.

Everything about the wardrobe in that film is spot on!

Gotta aggree...I've drawn inspiration (color-wise) from that movie more times than I can even count...

 

Anything worn by DeNiro in Casino.

Modeled after the single color outfit motif that Capone liked.

And btw, DeNiro in the last scene wearing the shirt with the white collar, unbuttoned (sort of a banker on his day off look) was brilliant, especially the symbolism of graduating from the drippy Vegas look to a more mature, "now I'm just a bookie, not a gangster" look.

Everything about the wardrobe in that film is spot on!

Most of DeNiro's Casino wardrobe was made by Paul Chang in Chicago.

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I love the suits from John Woo's Hong Kong era, worn with such murderous panache. Also, not a gangster movie, but the yakuza-ish Man in the White Suit from Tampopo.

 

I don't believe any real mobster is in the same page as Michael Corleone stylewise.

 

michael corleone was a good dresser in the movies but did you notice that in the first film he wore the same blue striped tie with every outfit throughout the film?

 

michael corleone was a good dresser in the movies but did you notice that in the first film he wore the same blue striped tie with every outfit throughout the film?

Because that is the Corleone-Andolini club tie. All members of the family got one, though they made Fredo return his.

 

I liked Christian Slater's look in Mobsters: three piece suit with a club collar shirt.

 

George Raft in Some Like It Hot

 

George Raft generally. :icon_smile:

 

George Raft generally. :icon_smile:

Earlier reply amended :icon_smile:

 

David Thewlis as Freddie Mays in Gangster No.1, a very nice, british gangster look, not to flashy but very sophisticated.
Custom tailored Suits, cufflinks, pinky signet ring, pocket squares etc.

 

Agree with Michael Corleone, generally; especially in the Homburg and ascot scenes. I also like Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo.

 

I think the cut of his grey double breasted suit and his belt in Key Largo were just bad, for me Johnny Rocco is definitly not a stylish person.

 

Don't forget Road to Perdition

 

I don't believe any real mobster is in the same page as Michael Corleone stylewise.

Agreed.

Don't forget Miller's Crossing as well.

 

4 minute godfather montage...deffinately some nice wardrobe in there...

The more I think about it, the more I'm sure...Michael was his best dressed in GF3...

 

I think the cut of his grey double breasted suit and his belt in Key Largo were just bad, for me Johnny Rocco is definitly not a stylish person.

Stylish may not always be the right aproach. The ever stylish George Raft was offered the part of Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon but turned it down. The role eventually went to Humphrey Bogart, whose rough edges clearly turned the part into a cultural icon (with a bit of help, of course, from Dashiell Hammett). It's rather doubtful that a more satorially suave detective would have had the same effect.

 

The Godfather

 

That's a strange hat.