The Index

Outfits, silhouettes and wardrobes, taken apart. Free to look through.

·Film

The James Dean Outfit: What He Actually Wore

The jacket was nylon, not leather. The jeans were Lee, not Levi’s. A close reading of the most copied outfit in American cinema, and how to build it from things you can buy now.

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The Drive Movie Jacket: What It Is, and What to Wear Instead

Off-white satin twill, not silk, and nearer silver than white. The costume designer says thirteen were made; the tailor who built them says twenty-seven. What the scorpion jacket actually is, the Japanese garment it descends from, and the two honest ways to buy into it.