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The mobster knit has become integral to Mafia films and TV ever since.

In Goodfellas Hill underpins tailoring with his knit shirts, letting the wide camp collar rest on his lapels, or wears one open over a wife-beater, his crucifix necklace nestling in a bed of curly chest hair. The Mafiosa version is more retro rockabilly: with strong stripes, primary palettes and a hefty dose of synthetic yarns. Before Law burst onto the scene with his breezy blue ensembles and rich-boy-gone-rogue tan, the late Ray Liotta was rocking a harsher, brasher version of the knitted shirt as Henry Hill. But the knitted shirt's place in the contemporary film canon was first secured by Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990) a whole decade prior. Most menswear heads will have Dickie Greenleaf pinned somewhere in their mental moodboard. Fast forward six years and we’re still not over it in fact, summer 2023’s collections are awash with button-through bowling shirts and resort polos made from knitted cotton, linen and the adjacent but no less relevant terry cloth. Naturally, this got people thinking once more about Jude Law’s iconic wardrobe in the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley.

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Knitted too densely and it's drapey rather than breezy, cut too slim and it’s more Ordinary Boys-indie-sleaze than retro, while anything too longline will lose that all-important blouson silhouette.īack in 2016, Miuccia Prada debuted an ultra boxy, ultra cropped camp collar shirt and soon we were in full retro resortwear renaissance.

Unless you were prepared to scour eBay for some second-hand gems (and contend with some seriously itchy synthetics), you’d be hard pressed to bag a decent design in either high street or designer stores.Īnyone who's embarked on this search will know that this piece is tricky to get right at the best of times. Which makes it all the stranger that, until recently, they were near-impossible to find. Beloved for its uniquely luxurious-but-relaxed aesthetic, it's been immortalised in many a cult film. The knitted polo shirt has become a bonafide summer staple in recent year.

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