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Jake Gittes: Style Icon

Don Pelon

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Found a great "sunray" tie close enough to Mr. Gittes, I think. Nice alternating stripes of tan, gold and maroon.
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I always loved the look of that cream suit coupled with a cream/off-white dress shirt, and his tie. Unique and beautiful. I have to get this linen suit fixed up in a few areas, but you get the idea...
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Don Pelon

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Looks like this guy has the right idea, with the same suiting and coloring Jake had from the opening of Chinatown. Like the black spectator combination as well:
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gary m

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Charles caine shirts have just released the gittes shirt
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The film's art director was Dick Sylbert, and his wife Ann designed the costumes. I've read that they were made for the film and that they were vintage, so I don't know the truth, but she does have an eye for the kind of thing a Jake Gittes would have had on in the summer of 1937.

First up is his linen suit. Apparently white or cream. It is three piece, double breasted and sports a very fancy back. He wears it twice in the film. In the first scene and in the scene following his temper tantrum at the barber. Of course he can't wear a white suit again, since having met the real Evelyn Mulwray he is compromised, so he moves into grey and then on to darker suits. Here's his linen.

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Difficult getting full length shots of anything but the back of Nicholson's ear in theis film.

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With a red, gold, grey striped tie.

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And in the later scene with a different shirt and tie.
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