Bond Suits

After Bond's mission briefing in A View to a Kill, M gives Bond exactly 35 minutes to get properly dressed for a visit to the Ascot Racecourse for Royal Ascot. Morning dress is required for attending Royal Ascot in the Royal Enclosure, the most exclusive of the enclosures. The current dress code

James Bond arrives in the Bahamas in Casino Royale, wearing a light grey linen suit when deplaning. Bond frequently wears light grey suits in the Caribbean and in other places with hot climates throughout the first two decades of the Bond series, but this is his first grey linen suit of

The spacing of a suit’s stripe might have the most significant effect on how we perceive the stripe. The spacing may be even more significant than the weight of the stripe or its colour. Thinner pinstripes are often associated with a closer spacing, while heavier chalk stripes typically come...

In May 1986, Pierce Brosnan's American television series Remington Steele was cancelled, freeing him up to take on the role of James Bond for The Living Daylights, or so he hoped. NBC had a 60-day hold on Brosnan to renew Remington Steele. In June 1986, Brosnan signed a contract to

James Bond wears his obligatory dinner suit in Die Another Day for a reception at Gustav Graves' Ice Palace. Though this is Bond's chilliest black tie occasion of the series, his outfit lacks any stylistic choices to reflect Iceland's climate. Nevertheless, costume designer Lindy Hemming dressed Pierce Brosnan in a

Ties may be thought of as simply a formal accessory for dressing up, but not all ties are created equal. Matching a tie to your suit or jacket or to the occasion means choosing a tie of the appropriate formality so you and your outfit look in harmony. Here...

For James Bond’s first full day in Istanbul in From Russia with Love, he wears the first of two Glen Urquhart check suits in the film. This suit says 'springtime' in a way few other suits do. The medium-scale black-and-white check bridges the darkness of winter with

Waistcoats come in many forms. Like how jackets typically come in two-button and three-button variants, waistcoats are most commonly made with either five or six buttons. There are, however, many more variations on the waistcoat. Six is the standard number of buttons on a waistcoat in the British tradition, with...

In The Man with the Golden Gun, James Bond wears a sporty silk-blend suit to bear the heat in Macau and Hong Kong. The suit is made of a semi-solid fine herringbone in a pale colour. This suit presents the same dilemma that the North By Northwest suit does

The standard suit has two pieces—a jacket and trousers—while the three-piece suit adds a waistcoat, also called a vest. The waistcoat’s primary purpose is for warmth, since the suit began as a sporty outdoor garment. The waistcoat makes smarter suits, such as those in dark worsteds and flannels, more...

In Quantum of Solace, James Bond arrives at the opera in Bregenz, Austria dressed casually and is in desperate need of appropriate attire, and this performance of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca is a black tie affair. He sneaks in through the artists' entrance and steals a dinner suit that belongs to

Original article published 27 December 2012 I am in the process of rewriting and republishing old articles about James Bond’s outfits that are in need of a refresh and expansion. All former comments are preserved below. In wintertime Bratislava in The Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton—via costume designer Emma Porteous—recalls classic James...