Why does this look wrong to me? (Cary Grant Picture)

[Bruce Wayne]

it looks like he need to shave. although that could just be the photo quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_247#Incidents_and_accidents
i knew this i while back that it crashed in my neck of the woods. i need to look up the local history to find out more info, though...

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Note: a jacket that is too short, too small in the shoulders/chest/waist, and too tight in the arms. It's even wrinkled, too. My choice of hat is spot on, however!

bk

 

[John in Covina]

Maybe the way it is puckered and appears to be pulling at the middle button has it looking strange too. I think that the modern eye is not comfortable with a tapered body line.

 

[dhermann1]

this is a mighty funny thread, cheers :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

I think this is clear evidence that there are a number of Loungers with not enough useful activities to keep them busy!

 

[Feraud]

I think this is clear evidence that there are a number of Loungers with not enough useful activities to keep them busy!

Oh come on now! If we cannot have discussion at the Lounge where can we?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Is this perhaps a little bit of evidence that Grant - rightly -, like many stars of today, despised the press photographers. And this was his way of taking the piss out of them. Give the idiots in the press something to gabble about ("Look who looks bad this week!") …

johnincovina - that's not a tapered body line. It is a suit jacket that's too tight. Hence the puckering at the button. This modern eye is most certainly happy with the tapered body line. We don't see enough of it (esp. with Re: modern American apparel)!

bk

 

[Fletch]

I have a copy of the full frame version of the photo, and his slacks end three inches above his ankles -- and he's not wearing socks.

Post pic or it didn't happen!

 

[Matt Deckard]

I think he looks fantastic.

 

[Mr. Rover]

Is this perhaps a little bit of evidence that Grant - rightly -, like many stars of today, despised the press photographers. And this was his way of taking the piss out of them. Give the idiots in the press something to gabble about ("Look who looks bad this week!") …

johnincovina - that's not a tapered body line. It is a suit jacket that's too tight. Hence the puckering at the button. This modern eye is most certainly happy with the tapered body line. We don't see enough of it (esp. with Re: modern American apparel)!

bk

I have to agree with the Baron on this one. Either the suit is a size or two too small, which for a svelte guy like Grant, he could probably squeeze into, or this is evidence that mid-30s proportions don't work for everyone.

(for the record, I was wearing a size 7 hat at the time, the suit is close to a size 32, and I normally wear a 34 or 36S)

 

[Mr. Rover]

Note: a jacket that is too short, too small in the shoulders/chest/waist, and too tight in the arms. It's even wrinkled, too. My choice of hat is spot on, however!

bk

Baron, I think your suit fits spot on, though (but it may just be the picture). But it's interesting that both of your jacket do this weird pulling at the chest/rib area. Even with a drape suit, I don't know if it should look like that, although one usually inspects from the front, and rarely at 3/4 view.

 

[mister7]

Just an observation on my part, but those tight fitting clothes really have a way of making people look pudgy. In all 4 pics posted in this thread notice how big their hips look relative to the shoulders.

Having a trim fit is one thing, but I personally don't find that bottom-heavy look appealing. I find clothes that emphasize the shoulders and chest much more attractive.

 

[dhermann1]

I think it would be difficult to find a single molecule of pudge on Mr Grant.
I stick with my theory that as he takes a couple more steps after getting off the plane, his clothes start draping a little more normally.
Feraud, I didn't say there's anything WRONG with this discussion!

 

[Paisley]

My take on this

Everything here fits, with the exception of sleeves that could use 1/4" or so...but what is so off about this look on Cary Grant? Is it just too snug? Or because it's white? This may be the only picture of Cary Grant where I have questioned how impeccably dressed he is.

To my untrained eye, his suit is cut like a gangster's: double breasted and narrow at the waist. Grant nearly always played more upstanding characters.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

To my untrained eye, his suit is cut like a gangster's: double breasted and narrow at the waist.

Why on earth would this be a gangster's suit?

 

[Paisley]

For the reasons I just stated, that was how it struck me at first glance. If you want to state all the reasons it isn't, that's fine, but don't do so for my benefit.

 

[Micawber]

The suit does not look right as it is simply too small for him.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I'm not quite sure why anyone could think that suit fits him. It looks about righ through the shoulders, but everything else is at least a size too small. If nothing else, gangsters had suits that fit them!

Why on earth would this be a gangster's suit?

Blame it on Wacky Races …

bk

 

[BellyTank]

For the reasons I just stated, that was how it struck me at first glance. If you want to state all the reasons it isn't, that's fine, but don't do so for my benefit.

Nice answer.


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[HadleyH]

...is this the same suit? it also seems to be pulling at the rib! [huh]

i still think he looks terrific!!!!!!!!!!! :eusa_clap

 

[MrBern]

swindler

To my untrained eye, his suit is cut like a gangster's: double breasted and narrow at the waist. Grant nearly always played more upstanding characters.

At the height of the war, he played this dubious character:
MrLUCKY (1943)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036174/

Cary Grant plays gambler, Joe Adams, who takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. Adams plans to use a war relief charity to get his gambling operation up and running, until he falls in love with Lorraine Day and has a change of heart.