The most iconic clothes in the James Bond films are tied memorable moments that draw attention to the clothes. These great moments make great clothes even more memorable. Not only do the costume designers deserve credit for these moments, but the films’ directors do as well. Find out what these seven coolest suit moments in the Bond series are below.

7. Stealing a suit

James Bond is startled when he sees a mannequin of himself in Scaramanga’s funhouse in The Man with the Golden. But Bond is able to use this dummy and its black suit to his advantage. Bond happened to be wearing the same cream shirt and black trousers that the dummy was wearing, so all he needed to do was take the dummy’s black suit jacket and black knitted silk tie to pose as the dummy. Taking the dummy’s place in the dummy’s clothes, Bond is able to outsmart and defeat Scaramanga. Using purely a suit and tie for disguise is one of the coolest ways Bond has gotten himself out of a difficult situation.

6. A Velcro trick

When James Bond arrives at a concert in The Living Daylights wearing a shawl collar dinner suit, agent Saunders scolds Bond by saying, “this is a mission, not a fancy dress ball!” Little does Saunders know that Bond came dressed for both work and play. When Bond and Saunders arrive at their location to protect KGB defector Georgi Koskov, Bond flips up his dinner jacket’s shawl collar and secures it in place with a strip of Velcro. This covers the bright white shirt that Bond is wearing. Only James Bond would have a such a cool dinner jacket that can turn into a piece of tactical gear.

5. “The name’s Bond, James Bond”

When James Bond meets Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, she judges him as a man who doesn’t care about the fine suits he wears. “You wear it with such disdain”, says Vesper about Bond’s Brioni suit.

By the final scene of Casino Royale, James Bond’s feelings toward dressing up have markedly changed. We see him standing confidently with a submachine gun in hand wearing a navy track stripe three-piece suit. At this moment, he is now the familiar, mature character from all of the previous films who has just captured a bad guy. Bond has no obligation to wear a suit—let alone a three-piece suit—in this scene, but he chooses to wear this suit because he wants to. And he certainly enjoys wearing it. Even though this suit is only shown on screen for a few seconds, it is one of the most memorable suits that James Bond has ever worn because it is part of a character-defining moment.

4. “There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets”

“I have a dinner jacket!”, Bond exclaims in Casino Royale when he sees that Vesper Lynd provided him with another dinner jacket. She obviously didn’t think that Bond’s own dinner jacket was good enough for him. It probably had multiple buttons on the front and notched lapels.

Vesper responds, “There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets; this is the latter. And I need you looking like a man who belongs at that table.”

James Bond dons the dinner jacket and admires the look in the mirror, straightening his cuffs and bow tie. He immediately learns what wearing proper black tie is and knows at once that he’s going to be the best-dressed man at the poker table. This perfect dinner suit gives Bond an added sense of courage. The significance of this suit to defining Bond’s character makes this one of the most memorable dinner suits of the series. And it’s a damn nice dinner suit!

3. The iconic introduction

In the first Bond film Dr. No, the first shot of James Bond is from behind in a midnight blue, shawl-collar dinner jacket. Then we get a close-up of a dinner jacket adorned with satin silk gauntlet cuffs, which tell us that the man wearing this dinner jacket is someone out of the ordinary. Then we finally see his face as he utters the immortal line, “Bond, James Bond”. Because of this dinner suit is what he wears when first seen on screen, black tie immediately became James Bond’s uniform. Anthony Sinclair’s tailoring helped solidify this image by making the first dinner suit one of the best of the series.

2. A grand entrance in a grand suit

James Bond’s most iconic suit of the entire series is undoubtedly the three-piece grey glen check suit that he wears in Goldfinger. The light, vibrant fabric and the lapelled waistcoat make this suit a memorable piece on its own, but the way it is presented tells us that this is a special suit. We watch Bond unpack the suit from his suitcase and place it on the back of the aeroplane lavatory door, blocking Mei-Lei’s view inside. After he shaves, we finally we see Bond make his grand entrance into the cabin of Auric Goldfinger’s private jet wearing this elegant three-piece suit. Can you imagine Bond making his entrance in an ordinary charcoal suit? It just wouldn’t be the same. This glen check suit is the first three-piece suit that Bond wears in the series, and no suit since has compared.

1. Uncovering style

No clothing moment in the Bond films is more iconic than in Goldfinger when James Bond unzips his diving suit to reveal a perfectly pressed ivory dinner jacket underneath. Sean Connery’s tailor Anthony Sinclair said, “if you use a good woollen, tailor the insides properly, you should be able to take the suit, roll it into a ball, shake it out and have it fall into perfect shape. It’s the fabric and canvas and inner work you invest in a garment that should do the work.” We’ll take the ivory dinner jacket after being packed into a diving suit as proof of what Sinclair says about the resilience of good tailoring.

According to an article in The Telegraph, a Dutch spy in World War II actually wore evening clothes under his diving suit decades before Bond did. But because he also pretended to be drunk, a wrinkle-free suit was not a requirement. Knowing that wearing a tailored suit under a diving suit can actually work in real life makes Bond wearing a dinner jacket under his diving suit even cooler.

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