Wesley Snipes stars as air safety expert John Cutter in the 1992 thriller Passenger 57. After his flight is hijacked, Cutter finds a distinctive brown leather biker jacket among the plane’s baggage and puts it on over his soft blue sports shirt, black turtleneck, Armitron watch, and Big Star jeans.

Released 50 years ago today on June 6, 1976 (to mirror the opening scene set at 6 a.m. on 6/6), The Omen stars Gregory Peck as an American ambassador (and new dad!) who makes better sartorial than parenting decisions in his Huntsman-tailored suits like this dark charcoal pinstripe three-piece.

Born 70 years ago today on June 4, 1956, Keith David’s elevated 1960s/70s sportswear as avuncular local loan shark Kirby in the 1995 crime drama Dead Presidents included a peach printed four-button polo shirt tucked into tobacco-brown slacks with silver statement rings and sand suede desert boots.

Happy 90th birthday, Bruce Dern! The first of his movies I’d ever seen was The Great Gatsby (1974) as we meet his Tom Buchanan, dressed for polo in blue button-up jersey, white breeches, oxblood field boots, and a tri-buckle kidney belt—briefly supplemented with an ivory shawl-collar cardigan.

Born 100 years ago on June 1, 1926, Andy Griffith debuted on screen in the 1957 satire A Face in the Crowd as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes: a drifter-turned-demagogue whose costumes like this silky sport shirt and patterned string tie with light flannel suit and cowboy boots reflect his homespun persona.

Costume designer Paul Zastupnevich dressed the men of 1974 disaster epic The Towering Inferno in colorfully creative black tie, like Robert Wagner’s blue tuxedo as the doomed Dan Bigelow. Worn with a big bow tie, Dan’s two-button dinner jacket has velvet-collared notch lapels and long double vents.

“Alright, alright, alright…” Dazed and Confused (1993) is set fifty years ago today on May 28, 1976, featuring Matthew McConaughey’s breakthrough performance as Chevelle-driving stoner David Wooderson in his Ted Nugent tee, flared peach Levi’s, cowboy boots, and one-hitter bullet pipe.

The Searchers was widely released 70 years ago today on May 26, 1956—coincidentally also star John Wayne’s 49th birthday. As Ethan Edwards, Duke wears his usual bib-front shirts, gunbelt, and Lucchese boots plus a black hat and Levi’s jeans that were anachronistic for the post-Civil War setting.

Charley Varrick you have to stop. You chew gum too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. Joe Don Baker’ll kill you Charley Varrick:

Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) leaves his silk tracksuits and Sansabelt slacks behind when heading to sea in The Sopranos episode “Remember When”, cooking up rigatoni alla Paulie (or rigatoni alla Tony, heh heh heh) in a mint camp shirt, stone-gray shorts, and his usual white loafers and Movado watch.

Released 24 years ago today in 2002, Insomnia stars Al Pacino as an LAPD detective in Alaska during the midnight sun to solve a murder, dressed in a dark brown leather car coat over a worsted business suit and increasingly darker shirts—plus a stainless TAG Heuer Link quartz watch.

Sterling Hayden’s wardrobe is crucial to his character’s getaway in Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 noir The Killing—released 70 years ago today. He robs a racetrack in a soft 4-pocket sports coat and checked sports shirt, removing both to reveal an OCBD shirt and tie he wears with another 4-pocket jacket.

Robert De Niro’s seventies streetwear as the reckless Johnny Boy in Mean Streets (1973) includes a mustard knit polo shirt that calls out the golden triple-check on his tobacco-brown single-button sport jacket—both proudly worn with the dark brown “$25 Dobbs hat” that he loses in a pool hall brawl.

“Do you know who I am? I’m Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!” Signaling his deep fixation on wealth and power, Alex Rocco wears a gold wardrobe as Moe in The Godfather: a raw silk belted-back jacket, yellow sport shirt with colorful silk tie, and thick glasses.

Bonnie & Clyde’s Oscar-nominated costumes were Theadora Van Runkle’s 1st screen credit, blending period detail and contemporary relevance from the titular leads to supporting roles like C.W. Moss (Michael J. Pollard) in his ‘30s-era Levi’s “Type I” 506XX denim jacket, flat cap, kerchiefs, and jeans.

Bloody Mama (1970) was an early role for Robert De Niro, playing one of Ma Barker’s infamous criminal sons: morphine-addicted mama’s boy Lloyd. At the gang’s summer hideout, Lloyd lounges lakeside in a bold-patterned sweater vest, brown knickerbockers, and spectator shoes. Happy Mother’s Day!

Born 125 years ago today on May 7, 1901, Gary Cooper’s iconic style extended onto the screen such as his well-tailored resort wardrobe in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938): a mock-leno patterned sport jacket, deco swirl-print tie, high-waisted gabardine trousers with checked belt, and white bucks.

Gregory Peck blended classic English tailoring with relaxed American refinement in black-and-white herringbone tweed Huntsman suit with blue oxford button-down shirt and foulard tie opposite Sophia Loren in Stanley Donen’s romantic spy comedy thriller Arabesque, released 50 years ago today in 1966.

Born 110 years ago today on May 1, 1916, Glenn Ford’s many film noir roles included Human Desire (1954), as a Korean War vet returning to his railroad job in Oklahoma. He wears his Army surplus tanker jacket with a woolen two-pocket service shirt, dark selvedge denim Levi’s 501XX jeans, and fedora.

When Harry met Sally in, uh, When Harry Met Sally (1989), Billy Crystal dresses for comfort during an 18-hour road trip in a heather gray zip-up hoodie, baseball tee, Levi’s “orange tab” boot-cut jeans, sneakers, and bund-strapped gold chronograph as a “young” college graduate in 1977.

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw was released 50 years ago on April 28, 1976, starring Wonder Woman-to-be @lyndacarter.bsky.social on the run with Marjoe Gortner as Billy the Kid-wannabe Lyle Wheeler in his rotation of cutoff-sleeve shirts—including a blue denim Wrangler 27MW—tucked into Lee boot-cut jeans.

Leonardo DiCaprio sported a pair of blue aloha shirts as Shakespeare’s tragic lover Romeo Montague in Baz Luhrmann’s modernized 1996 adaptation Romeo + Juliet—one painted by costume designer Kym Barrett’s team with a “wounded heart” and floral border, and one with a Japanese blossom all-over print.

Born 120 years ago today on April 22, 1906, Eddie Albert received an Oscar nomination for his performance in Roman Holiday (1953). His refreshingly relaxed costume of a dark unstructured jacket, striped ringer tee tucked into pleated slacks, and fisherman sandals reflected his character’s attitude.

Seersucker means never having to say you’re sweaty. On what would have been Ryan O’Neal’s 85th birthday today, read more about his spring-ready seersucker suit, silk knit tie, and screwball-informed specs as musicologist Dr. Howard Bannister in Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 comedy What’s Up, Doc?

Yearly post of Gertrude Michael singing ‘Sweet Marijuana’ in Murder at the Vanities (1934). Happy 4/20!

Born today in 1918, William Holden’s wardrobe as successful yet cynical Frank Harmon in Breezy (1973) becomes brighter and more colorful through his relationship with Kay Lenz’s titular hippie hitchhiker—illustrated by the shirts under his navy shawl-collar cardigan during their trips to the ocean.

The thirty-year-old computer game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time is set aboard the famous liner that struck an iceberg 114 years ago tonight on April 14, 1912. Characters from Andrew Conkling to Colonel Zeitel dress in a range of fashions that suit the setting and their respective class and role.

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.