Finally got to see the end of this film & very good it was too.
Clever, funny, sad, etc., and more importantly a good wardrobe throughout:

Very nice Madras dressing gown & proper pajamas on the young Garp (Good pajamas throuthout in fact).
Lovely Argyle crew-neck & flannels also on the young scamp.

The adult Garp lives in flat-front Khakis, Cords (Both with a perfect hardly-there-at-all break), wonderful OCBDs with a real roll to the collar, saddle-shouldered Shetlands, a skinny repp tie, loafers, what look like Keds, a Cord sack jacket, etc.,
But the real star of the show is a mid-grey Herringbone, 3 to 2 roll, natural shoulder, patch & flap with upper bessom, welted-seamed sack jacket.
Perfect.
Slim down the lapels and it would be 'Breakfast at Sir Winston Churchills Flem spoon.'s' fodder.

Well worth a watch even if you don't like Ivy style... but if you do... even better!
Well shot, nice locations, blah, blah, blah, & a nice sack jacket. What more do you want?

t.

Edit: Not Keds but Sperry Topsider canvas deck shoes & I forgot to mention that the Herringbone sack also features a hooked vent.
Better & better!
Thanks for the emails boys.

Last edited by Terry Lean (2007-01-27 07:34:21)

I honestly think it's fantastic & am amazed I didn't know of it before.
This is the kind of thing I love about life - random, wonderful experiences...

Garp's clothes are Trad, but would you say that the film had Trad appeal?

And if not, how Trad is Trad?

A bit like the GTH thing on an earlier thread (Murray's Shetlands)... I think the reality of the whole classic American thing is far more red-blooded than we see on the MBs.

Only my take.

Yes, all the details are certainly there.
I just wondered if the story would appeal to our brothers 'over there'.
Only they can tell us!

I loved the series of the Paper Chase but felt a little let down by the movie (Same with Payton Place - I can just about remember the series). Some nice elements mixed in with the wardrobe in both. I missed the green OCBD - I must watch it again!
Garp gets my recommendation.

I do love the movie, and the book.  If this had been the only performance Robin Williams ever gave, I would love him unreservedly.  The clothes are excellent.  And how sexy is Cushy?  Now there's a trad girlfriend I could get behind.

The book has some really disturbing rape material that makes it a lot less fun than the movie.

Another Irving adaptation (again with rape as a major plot element/theme--creepy) with good wradrobe is The Hotel New Hampshire.  Nice preppy rig on Beau Bridges and Rob Lowe.  The movie is a disaster, though.

I think John Irving is one we can claim for the Ivy canon with pride.

Last edited by Arthur (2007-08-29 11:49:37)