Now the costuming in the film appears to be rather well done, considering it’s a silly action movie. A fun score by Zimmer, epic action scenes, and British accents really cemented it as a guilty pleasure even now! Again, I never was the hipster watching French New Wave or even a Wes Anderson film in my youth. The fact remains that this film was just super cool and a fun take on the famous literary character. The fact that the main character was an “intellectual” and an outcast resonated with my tween self. So wonderfully embroidered waistcoats, boots, and tweed jackets really caught my fancy, though for the record, I never actually dressed like a Victorian gentleman. The only difference was that Victorian style (or vintage style in general) was just more ornate and interesting than whatever popped up on the cover of GQ. It could just be at the time, I was around 13 years old and like many nerdy tumblr guys, I had a fascination with “dapper clothing”. #Sherlock holmes costume movieThere’s just something about this movie that really intrigued me. Sherlock’s odd seprates and Watson’s tweed sport suit. That honor belongs to Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, whose Bohemian-clad, action-oriented take on Doyle’s character intrigued a high school freshman way back in 2009. But it wasn’t the first movie with style that caught my eye. In that same vein, 2013’s Great Gatsby remains the pivotal film that got me into vintage style, and by extension classic menswear. This is most evident in my blog posts for Fantastic Beasts or Gangster Squad! I mean I do watch good films, but I definitely have a soft spot for fun! As a result, the movies that I tend to pay attention to for menswear aren’t the Clark Gable or Anthony Perkins lead ones, but the silly action ones that have decent style. It should surprise no one that I’m a dork, especially when it comes to my taste in “cinema”.
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