A New Year's Eve Style Thread: What are your favorite dinner clothes photographs?

[F. Corbera]

Something more recent:

Style Forum meme:

 

[mmkn]

Originally Posted by F. Corbera

Gorgeous Logsdail.

- M

 

[Metlin]

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/533...1E70F2B3269972 I was confused about the light colored bow-tie, until I realized it was a white tie outfit.

 

[TC (Houston)]

Originally Posted by F. Corbera

Style Forum meme:

That's a nice dinner suit.

 

[F. Corbera]

Constancy within change:

 

[F. Corbera]

From the world of mass-merchandizing:

 

[F. Corbera]

A nostalgic movie that I like:

 

[Mark from Plano]

I'd like to petition J to upgrade the forum software. Any decent forum would permit me to rate this thread higher than a 5.

I kinda like the one in my avatar. A little bit for those of us who enjoy the tropics. It's a look for heros and superheros. Rick Blaine

Indiana Jones

Bond, James Bond

And for regular guys as well:

 

[F. Corbera]

^Excellent.

A large pic from Notorious:

 

[F. Corbera]

Gable black tie iconography:

 

[BBC]

 

[BBC]

 

[BBC]

 

[aportnoy]

Originally Posted by F. Corbera

Great choice. Have you read the Davis book?
The Davis book is wonderful. The Capote ball was stuff of legend growing up in NYC in the 60s and 70s. I can remember my parents pouring over the photos at the breakfast table. It seems like another lifetime ago.

 

[George]

Originally Posted by F. Corbera

Mannequins are not as fun as people (well...I guess that depends...), but here are some more images like that from the London Cut exhibition (I'm leaving out white tie, which is whole a other subject):
Ah, I posted the first on because related James Sherwood [Forest] book and contained the frogging I believe you were referring in an earlier thread. Not really relevant I know. The second was a little velvet number from Hitchcock JR. I tend to like the louche-ness of Velvet for these type of occasions. Enough crap... David Niven

Noel Coward....darling..