Everything changes in 80 years. Yet how much more does it say about the staying power of stars from the golden age that they still look gorgeous and distinctive in absurdly outdated fashions?
The double breasted pinstripe will probably never come back, unless one happens to join a crime family, or if one is being overtly ironic. But Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. still looks dapper as ever out in 1938's "The Young in Heart":
Likewise, Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer's absurd outfits in the classic 1939 "A Love Affair" do not make us shake our heads. They are both so magnetic and good-looking that we can ignore Dunne's football sized shoulder pads with some kind of bowtie, and Boyer's ridiculous plaid number.
I suppose this means that it is the star in the outfit - and not the label or the cut of the fabric - that makes an outfit work or not. So get out the pomade and the upper-crust early 1900s Atlantic American accent and go to work.
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