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James Bond wears a dinner jacket. The occasion is usually some foreign ambassador’s reception or when he hangs out at some Côte d’Azur casino meeting interesting and/or dangerous people. It’s usually nighttime and the jacket is usually black (teamed up with a black bow tie). So how about stepping out into the daylight with your dinner jacket? Is that entirely inappropriate? I do not think so at all. A dinner jacket was traditionally worn at the informal part of a soiree. When the official part of the evening was over men left their tailcoats (and their wives) behind, slipped into heir comfy dinner jackets and drifted to the smoking room to puff on their cigars, drink some more liquor and put their feet up. A dinner jacket used to be more of a feel-good garment than a formal evening piece. But when tailcoats became unpopular the dinner jacket rose to it’s current status of proper eveningwear and stayed there – until Yves Saint Laurent came along in the 60s and did the unspeakable. ‘Le Smoking’ for the ladies. Women’s liberation at its chicest. Anything goes from now on. So, agent 007, why not finally liberate the male dinner jacket from its sunless, formal existance? Skip the bow tie, put on your Borsalino and add some sneakers. That’s contemporary gentleman chic. Try it out – you only live twice…
Gunnar wears dinner jacket and sneakers by Strellson, jeans by Nudie, jumper by Acne and hat by Borsalino.
P.S. This is a sponsored post. To keep the spirit of the blog authentic Gunnar picked the pieces himself and styled it in his very personal way as usual.
©Julia Richter
