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The leggy lure of Bombshell.

Internal Affairs (1990) is an excellent stone cold thriller. The costumes are a subtle tease, revealing personal information that the characters never say out loud. Like many movies released in the late 1980s/1990s, Internal Affairs radiates uneasiness caused by shifting societal attitudes – anything that threatens a straight male chauvinist black-and-white world. Costume designer Rudy Dillon punches through this black-and-white world with ensembles that poke fun at the status quo and subsequently subvert them with eroticism, perhaps ironically using only a colour scheme of black and white. The straight white male chauvinist is Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a police officer in Los Angeles who controls his colleagues by involving them…

Why does Tippi Hedren wear a green suit in The Birds, and what does it mean?

The evolving costumes worn by Sandra Dee in classic sixties gender comedy A Man Answers.

James Bond is back and he has never scrubbed up better. Tom Ford now exists to make Daniel Craig suits.

Doris Day’s last hurrah for 1950s fashion wearing some of the most exquisite costumes ever seen on screen.