Suspect, in fact, that the gentle-mannered Californian – if his guises in Roman Holiday and To Kill A Whose frock coat from The Million Pound Note remains on display at Number 11 Savile Row. The movie character’s clothes have a distinctly Martini-dabbed touch of Mad Men about them, an effect enhanced by the fact that they’reĬaressing the distinctive form of Peck: a tailoring aficionado who ordered 160 suits from Huntsman over the course of his London visits, and So it’s perhapsĪpt that the elegantly draped suits Peck wears in the movie (not all of them grey, incidentally) reflect a man of Ruminations on his earlier life as a World War II army officer reveal deeds both heroic and less so (including theĪccidental killing of his best friend), as well as a torrid romance with Italian girl Marisa Pavan. The life of Tom Rath, viewers of the film quickly find out, was once vastly more colourful. Starring Gregory Peck is based, represents the stale hypocrisy of the upstate-dwelling, Madison Avenue-commutingĭullard: an emblem of those whose ambitions go no further than sustaining a quotidian suburban living through The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit, the 1955 novel by Sloan Wilson on which the 1956 movie adaptation For those of a rakish disposition, it’s chillingly ironic that the soft-woven two-piece referred to in the title of
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