Bespoke, Savile Row · 1960s · 1963
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The Hollywood Tuxedo, 1963
ENTRY 0006 · Bespoke, Savile Row · 1960s · 1963
Provenance
Cut on Savile Row in 1963 and purchased through a Hollywood studio wardrobe department; worn on camera in two productions before passing into a costume collector's hands in 1987, then to the Vault's archive in 2026. The studio's initials remain stitched inside the left breast pocket.
The record
A tuxedo is the most honest piece of formalwear there is — it cannot distract, only fit or fail. This one was cut on Savile Row, bought by a studio, and worn under hot lights on camera twice before retiring to a collector's rack. The initials stitched inside the pocket are the record: wardrobe departments mark their own, and this one has been marked, worn, and kept for sixty years. The Black Book files it under Hollywood provenance, because the suit remembers what the film credits forgot.
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