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Dressed to kill
By adamg on Mon, 04/14/2014 - 8:22am
Eileen Murphy marveled at this dapper would-be don at the auditions for the movie version of Black Mass at the old Bayside Expo Center yesterday.
She adds: "You know it's a Southie movie when a Hollywood hopeful brings a space saver to the casting call for Black Mass!"
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That looks like a toned down zoot suit.
I have a feeling Whitey is 'Post Zoot Suit".
Besides it was the sort of thing preferred by cultures Whitey isn't much known for liking.
Any rivals in the movie?
Maybe he wants to be cast as a rival don.
Maybe.
True Zoot suits were more common in LA, a kind of big band era Black and Chicano trend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_suit
The 50s era Boston night club jazz scene had commonalities with the 80s/90s Boston Rock scene in how the audiences related to the music.
But Whitey was'nt too close to any of it.
It would be funny to speculate what his music preferences are, probably Elvis oldies.
The zoot suit is a really different animal
It has a bizarrely exaggerated silhouette: super-wide, thick-padded shoulders, really wide lapels on a very long jacket, pants with a waist at about mid-chest, very baggy on top and draping to tightly pegged ankles, plus some odd, specific accessories like long looping watch chains.
This actor is wearing a very conventionally-cut if ill-fitting business suit: he looks like an R-sized guy wearing a boxy L suit, hence the slightly overlong jacket.
Back in the day, everybody dressed better, even the thugs
Take a look at some of the outfits in these photos - click on the fourth image for some thug sartorial splendor.
King Solomon had some pimp stylin' going on himself
High society doubtless would have looked down on his chalk-striped tuxedo as garish and outré.
More stylin'
Police mugshots used to be really badass.
Love those! I especially
Love those! I especially like the one that "refused to open his eyes".
I wish hats for men were back, nothing like al nice fedora...
A few things wrong with this look
Suit looks more 80s vintage than the late-60s / early-70s looks requested in the casting call. Shoes are out of the 30s. Hat brim width is okay, but straw is wrong pre-Memorial Day. Tie, shirt collar, and pocket square are about the only period details that are correct. Fit of the suit is terrible (jacket and sleeves too long, stupidly baggy fit), but many criminal types sport lousy tailoring. And if you think only Italian-American mobsters dress like this, well, Whitey did do business with those folks.
Even Hollywood and TV costumers often mix up eras like this horribly. The recent W.B. Mason "Low Price Assurance Detectives" commercials are a good example: presumably aiming for a 40s film noir look but similarly mashing up elements of six different decades.
something doesn't belong
there is something a little bit incongruous between the sepia toned print, the guy who looks like he belongs in the sepia toned print, and the woman with a bike helmet.
Dude should've worn his Aran
Dude should've worn his Aran sweater instead.
Or a later-period Bulger look
Grandma jeans, $2 web belt, saggy undershirt, and oversized Sox cap and shades that make your head look tiny. The longer Whitey's career went on, the sadder and chumpier he looked. He was a rat, and all public protestations to the contrary, he knew it, and everyone in the game knows it. In his circle of pond scum, that makes him the lowest of the low. He'll go to his grave claiming otherwise, but he is fooling exactly no one.
Would you say that if he was
Would you say that if he was still on the street?