The cult classic Jackson County Jail was released 50 years ago today on April 11, 1976, starring Tommy Lee Jones as petty crook Coley Blake—dressed under his brown leather jacket in American iconography sporting his faded red henley, blue jeans, and sneakers with white rubber toe-caps and outsoles.

Western icon and bona fide cowboy Ben Johnson died 30 years ago today, leaving a screen legacy that includes memorable roles like Tector Gorch in The Wild Bunch (1969)—dressed with rugged intention in a black vest (made by ripping the sleeves off a work jacket) with requisite cowboy hat and boots.

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) is set over Easter weekend in Mississippi, where gigolo Chance Wayne (Paul Newman) returns to his hometown dressed to impress in a cream raw silk sport jacket with a brown silk knit tie, monk shoes, and nearly ubiquitous sunglasses.

Born 65 years ago today on April 3, 1961, Eddie Murphy made his stylish screen debut in 48 Hrs. (1982)—dressed by costume designer Marilyn Vance in an Armani Prince of Wales check suit with a double-breasted notch-lapel jacket, pink pinned-collar shirt and slim printed tie, and white loafers.

On the first anniversary of his death, read about Val Kilmer’s quasi-Indiana Jones-informed style of a brown leather flight jacket, khakis, and suede boots as singer-turned-spy Nick Rivers (NOT Mel Tormé) in his 1984 screen debut, Top Secret!

Born 113 years ago today on March 29, 1913, Paul Genge’s tough-guy roles included the hitman “Ice Pick Mike” in Bullitt (1968), whose functional yet nondescript wardrobe helps him both blend in and hide his Winchester ‘97 takedown shotgun in the deep pockets of his beige Burberry raincoat.

Happy 60th birthday to Michael Imperioli! His style as Cartier-wearing mobster Christopher Moltisanti grew more sophisticated across The Sopranos, as tasteful sports costs like this brown, olive, and black houndstooth jacket supplemented his usual tracksuits and leather jackets by the sixth season.

Born today in 1930, screen legend and style icon Steve McQueen wore double denim as a Texan ex-con rockabilly musician in the 1965 drama Baby the Rain Must Fall: an indigo denim western-yoked Wrangler snap-front shirt and dark blue denim Levi’s 501 jeans.

Happy 80th birthday, Timothy Dalton! In the actor’s first movie as James Bond, The Living Daylights (1987), Dalton’s smart, subdued wardrobe included a tan gabardine Benjamin Simon suit with an open-neck cream shirt while confronting Soviet General Pushkin in Tangier with his trademark Walther PPK.

Released today in 1998, Wild Things stars Matt Dillon as shady high school counselor Sam Lombardo, who pairs his sun-faded polos and corduroy shorts with Persol aviators and a Rolex Submariner Date.

Born 72 years ago today, Craig Wasson’s smart casual wardrobe in Body Double (1984) tactfully blends the western-informed informality of a denim snap shirt and tooled leather belt with sporty Adidas Stan Smiths—all united by the timeless versatility of a tan corduroy sport jacket and khaki slacks.

One Battle After Another (2025) stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a burned-out ex-revolutionary wearing a red-and-black plaid bathrobe (a “revolutionary robe”, if you will) with layered T-shirts and Altra Lone Peak trail-running shoes. @onebattlemovie.bsky.social costume design by Colleen Atwood.

In addition to being a horror classic, Night of the Living Dead (1968) is also a “Daylight Saving movie”, as Ben (Duane Jones) leads a group fighting zombies on the Sunday when clocks spring forward—dressed in Ivy-informed striped button-down shirt, stone-gray slacks, and brown apron-toe loafers.

Justified’s sixth episode “The Collection” established Timothy Olyphant’s off-duty formula as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens: plaid shirts open over henleys with his usual cowboy hat, boots, and indigo Levi’s 501 jeans. Costume design by Ane Crabtree.

Daniel Craig (born today in 1968) reprised Benoit Blanc last year in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery—working with costume designer Jenny Eagan to follow ‘70s inspo from Yves Saint Laurent in Blanc’s golden windowpane three-piece suits worn with patterned ties, Chelsea boots, and trench coat.

For the 1978 adaptation of Death on the Nile, Anthony Powell’s Oscar-winning costume design included Andrew Pennington’s brown-on-brown stripe half-Norfolk jacket, straw homburg, and a blue shirt with contrasting club collar, worn by George Kennedy, who died 10 years ago today on February 28, 2016.

Born 94 years ago today on February 26, 1932, Johnny Cash took the stage at San Quentin two days before his 37th birthday in 1969—wearing a matching midnight frock coat and waistcoat, sky-blue French-cuff shirt, and striped trousers—to record his second album performed live with a prison audience.

“Diane…11:30 a.m., February 24th, entering the town of Twin Peaks.” In his Bureau-approved black wool suit with conservative shirts, classic ties, and Buddhist pin in his lapel, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (@kylemaclachlan.bsky.social) fatefully arrived in Twin Peaks today in 1989.

Released 30 years ago today in 1996, Bottle Rocket launched the careers of director Wes Anderson and actors Luke and Owen Wilson. As small-time crook Dignan, Owen wears the same vintage terry-lined Jantzen cabana shirt from Anderson’s 1992 short, with white trousers and a black Casio G-Shock watch.

Across the 1st season of The Pitt, costume designer Lyn Paolo dressed Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) for functional—and regionally informed—comfort in his Beers of the Burgh zip-up hoodie with black FIGS scrub top, brown Carhartt work pants, black @newbalance.bsky.social 990v5s, and Seiko SRPG35 field watch.

Déjà Vu (2006) begins on Fat Tuesday as ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) joins a time-warping task force investigating a New Orleans ferry explosion. Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick dressed Doug in a cozily oversized brown suede jacket with sport shirts and a Fortis Cosmonauts Chronograph.

Across the last half of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, released 50 years ago today in 1976, L.A. cabaret owner Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) subdues his typically flashier style with a navy serge peak-lapel suit and mint open-neck shirt—accented with his usual diamond pinky ring and gold wristwatch.

Inspired by actual events and released 40 years ago on Valentine’s Day 1986, The Delta Force stars Chuck Norris as a U.S. commando deployed against a group of aircraft hijackers. Norris’ character arrives in Beirut wearing a belted khaki safari jacket, black Reebok sneakers, and Timex Camper watch.

Born 100 years ago today in 1926, Leslie Nielsen’s comedic second act took flight with Airplane! (1980) as Dr. Rumack, whose deadpan delivery was as serious as his style: a brown pinstripe three-piece suit with an always-buttoned jacket and coordinated striped tie. And don’t call him Shirley.

Taxi Driver was released 50 years ago in February 1976. As loner cabbie and war veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) grows increasingly paranoid, he adopts a more militant image in an olive M65 field jacket concealing his self-rigged system of holsters, dark Lee jeans, cowboy boots… and a mohawk.

Born 85 years ago today, Nick Nolte’s wardrobe in The Good Thief—Neil Jordan’s 2002 remake of Bob le flembeur—could be described as “Bob le flamboyant”, anchored by wild geometric-printed shirts under black leather jackets like this bomber-style blouson plus a hefty turquoise-detailed belt buckle.

Zabriskie Point premiered today in 1970, starring non-professional actor Mark Frechette as a disillusioned revolutionary dressed in the aged anonymity of a faded pale-blue two-pocket shirt, gray work trousers, and tan roughout lace-up boots repurposed as an ankle holster for his snub-nosed .38.

In @realgdt.bsky.social’s 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein, Kate Hawley’s Oscar-nominated costume design blends Regency and rock star influences for Oscar Isaac’s Byronic style as Victor: a black frock coat, velvet waistcoat, red kerchief, billowing blouse, and gold signet ring with his family crest.

On the first anniversary of Gene Hackman’s January 30, 1930 birthday since the actor’s death at age 95 last year, read how he dressed up a weathered brown leather jacket with shirts and ties as 1950s Indiana basketball coach and Navy veteran Norman Dale in Hoosiers (1986).

Happy 90th birthday to Alan Alda! Born January 28, 1936, the actor’s 1981 directorial debut The Four Seasons followed a group of seasonal vacationers, ending with Alda’s character dressed for winter après-ski in a cream, olive, black, and gray sweater with a stone parka and brown corduroy trousers.

In the Oscar-nominated Train Dreams (2025), laconic logger Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) is dressed by costume designer Malgosia Turzanska in heritage workwear to fit the early 20th century Pacific Northwest setting—from a Wabash chore coat and felt crusher hat to custom White’s caulk boots.

Remembering the great Paul Newman, born 101 years ago today on January 26, 1925. A Navy veteran who served in World War II before his celebrated acting career, Newman was photographed by Sanford Roth in 1956 while wearing his hardy N-1 deck jacket.

Born 80 years ago today on January 24, 1946, Michael Ontkean co-starred on Twin Peaks as Sheriff Harry S. Truman—dressed as a modern, quasi-western lawman in his pinched-front cowboy hat, khaki shirt and slacks, pendant necklaces, harness boots, and distinctive mid-century brown flecked car coat.

Played by @kylemaclachlan.bsky.social, Special Agent Dale Cooper’s first major on-screen departure from his usual black suits and ties is the blue nylon coach-style FBI raid jacket he layers over sweaters and cargo pants during an investigation into the woods during the first season of Twin Peaks 👍

Today would’ve been the late auteur David Lynch’s 80th birthday. In addition to co-creating Twin Peaks, Lynch appeared in the second season as FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole—always sporting the Bureau’s trademark black suit with a slim black tie and his ever-present hearing aid.

Born 122 years ago today on January 18, 1904, screen and style icon Cary Grant’s second collaboration with director @alfredhitchcock.bsky.social was the 1946 espionage thriller Notorious—dressed for a party in postwar Rio in a handsomely tailored dark wool three-piece dinner suit.

Our Man Flint was released 60 years ago on January 16, 1966, starring James Coburn as the titular playboy spy Derek Flint. Flint’s wardrobe includes a smartly tailored black wool/mohair tuxedo, which he creatively wears with a cream shirt, navy and scarlet silk pocket squares, and suede loafers.

The Grey (2011) stars Liam Neeson dressed to survive the wintry Alaskan wilderness in a khaki parka with a fur-trimmed hood over hardy layers like a zip-up hoodie, gray shawl-collar sweater, olive henley, and Carhartt work pants with a gray ribbed beanie, hybrid work boots, and convertible gloves.

Sean Connery’s first role after officially retiring from 007 was in The Offence—released today in 1973—as veteran Berkshire detective-sergeant Johnson, sporting a sheepskin coat over his brown Prince of Wales check suit with a cream poplin shirt, knitted tie, and herringbone trilby.

In the 1979 comedy Chilly Scenes of Winter, Charles Robinson (John Heard) makes the case for keeping that well-worn old favorite sweater, layering his moth-eaten maroon V-neck over a white thermal T-shirt—and sometimes also a blue chambray shirt—and paired with his usual Levi’s jeans and wool socks.

Ben Johnson’s natty 1930s wardrobe as Melvin Purvis in Dillinger (1973) reflected the real-life agent’s style, including the indigo-adjacent blue-gray chalkstripe double-breasted suit he wears with black homburg and bulletproof vest during the siege on Wilbur Underhill, who died 92 years ago today.

Happy 95th birthday to Robert Duvall! In the final act of The Killer Elite (1975), he sports elevated naval-inspired workwear: a blue CPO-style snap-up jacket over a striped two-pocket shirt, open at the neck to show a printed day cravat, tucked into creased jeans and topped with a black watch cap.

Concluding 50 years ago with a bicentennial boxing match on New Year’s Day, ROCKY (1976) stars Sylvester Stallone wearing the actor’s own black leather jacket from Bond’s Fifth Avenue with black Levis STA-Prest jeans, a charcoal-blue felt trilby, and a worn-in rotation of sweatshirts and sweaters.

“…it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” 🎞️: When Harry Met Sally (1989), dir. Rob Reiner

As real-life 1970s drug dealer George Jung in Blow (2001), Johnny Depp was dressed by costume designer Mark Bridges for a pivotal New Year’s Eve in a colorfully textured polyester patch-pocket sport jacket over an off-white turtleneck and brown slacks with his usual gold dive watch and diamond ring.

For Christmas in The Family Stone (2005)—released 20 years ago this month—family stoner Ben (Luke Wilson) unwrapped a Polo Ralph Lauren sport jacket in a brown-and-red Prince of Wales check that fortunately coordinated with the striped red Penguin shirt and brown plaid jeans he was already wearing.

In addition to Robert Redford’s show-stopping style in Christmas-adjacent 1975 spy thriller Three Days of the Condor, CIA section chief Wicks (Michael Kane) layers a brown leather car coat over his traditional navy suit and tie to transition his look from board-room bland to back-alley badass.

Born 77 years ago today, Samuel L. Jackson’s latest QT collab was The Hateful Eight (2015), starring as cavalry officer-turned-bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren navigating a wild west winter in a caped navy wool greatcoat, broad-brimmed black hat, black suit, red tie, and fancy velvet waistcoat.

Released 50 years ago in December 1975, The Killer Elite stars the late James Caan as a mercenary returning to work against his old partner, dressed to fight ninjas in a tobacco-brown suede button-up racer jacket, black ribbed turtleneck tucked into tight brown trousers, and ankle boots.

The late Rob Reiner made his directorial debut with the 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap—also appearing on screen as filmmaker Marty Di Bergi, dressed in an altered USN command cap, safari jacket, polo shirts, and jeans as a grounded, utilitarian contrast to the titular band’s flamboyant style.