Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Menswear Moments: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

Doreen: This is a nice room, are all them clothes 'yorn.
Arthur Seaton: Ah, just a few rags.
Doreen: They must have cost you a pretty penny.
Arthur Seaton: I get good wages.

In Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, another of the British New Wave films about an "angry young man" (based on a novel by Alan Sillitoe, directed by Karel Reisz), Albert Finney's Arthur works at a factory but has assembled a very nice going-out jacket-and-tie wardrobe. To think that men who didn't wear ties for work wore them to socialize in -- those were the days!

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