Dress Like Humphrey Bogart
Readers of OTAA, I give you the one and only Humphrey Bogart, the quintessential cool guy from the '30s to '50s. You might know him as Roy Earle from High Sierra, Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon, Rick Blaine from Casablanca, Harry Morgan from To Have and Have Not, Fred C. Dobbs from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Linus Larrabee from Sabrina, Phillipe Marlowe from The Big Sleep, Dixon Steele from In a Lonely Place, and Harry Dawes from The Barefoot Contessa, among other films.
Bogart is also the original leader of the infamous Rat Pack of Las Vegas lore. Frank Sinatra took over the pack after Bogart's passing in 1957.
Have you ever admired the legend's style? Here's how to dress like Humphrey Bogart the next time you want to make a good impression.
Bogart was in his 30s when he started in the film industry. He already had his characteristic bloodhound good looks, complemented by this' 20s-style suit—a flannel grey number with a notch-lapeled suit jacket and matching high-button waistcoat. He wears a spear-point collared white dress shirt with a matching white pocket square. To top things off, he also wears a black-and-white polka-dot-patterned tie and a white felt trilby.
Whether aligned with lawbreakers or the boys in blue, Bogart shines. Here, he plays the anti-hero outlaw Roy Earle in the 1941 crime film High Sierra. He wears a black suit with a wide-notch lapeled suit jacket, a pair of high-waisted trousers, a thin brown belt, and an automatic .30 pistol tucked underneath. He wears a beige spread collared dress shirt with a black necktie and matching fedora.
Bogart is in a promotional still for High Sierra with Ida Lupino. This time, he is wearing a grey worsted suit similar to his black one but with patch pockets. Underneath, he wears a club-collared white dress shirt, a matching white pocket square, and a yellow necktie with black circle patterns.
In the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon, Bogart plays Sam Spade and holds the titular sculpture in his hands. He wears a pinstriped charcoal grey suit with a peak-lapeled double-breasted suit jacket, a spread-collar dress shirt, and a burgundy cotton tie with a diamond pattern.
In another promotional still for The Maltese Falcon, Bogart is wearing a worsted glen checkered grey suit with a double-breasted peak lapeled suit with welted breast pockets. Underneath, he wears a checker-patterned cotton tie and a long, point-collared white dress shirt with button cuffs and a matching pocket square. On his lapel is a yellow lapel flower.
In a still from the Maltese Falcon, Bogart is wearing a solid navy-blue wool suit with a double-breasted peak-lapeled suit jacket, a matching high-button waistcoat, and a spread-collar dress shirt with a red linen tie.
Bogart is in a movie still from his 1942 film Casablanca, in which he plays Rick Blaine. Victor Laszlo, as Paul Henreid, is beside him. Bogart wears a dressed-down, summer-weight tuxedo as a club owner in sweltering Morocco. The tuxedo consists of a worsted ivory-coloured double-breasted tux jacket with a shawl collar, a white long-pointed turndown collared French cuffed dress shirt, and a matching silk pocket square tucked in the jacket's welted left breast pocket. Underneath, he wears no cummerbund but black wool tuxedo trousers with black satin side stripes running down the sides. A self-tied black silk bow tie completes the look.
In another scene in Casablanca, Bogart's Rick Blaine is with Ilsa Lund, played by Ingrid Bergman. Bogart's tan, lightweight worsted suit is made of a wide-notch lapeled ventless suit jacket with patch pockets worn with a diagonally striped black and red striped necktie worn over a white long point collared French-cuffed dress shirt with matching cotton white pocket square. He also wears single-pleated high-waisted trousers with a thin tan leather belt. Of course, the outfit isn't complete without a dark grey felt fedora with a wide black satin ribbon.
Bogart during a radio interview sometime in 1945. He wears a grey wool herringbone blazer, a long point-collared poplin dress shirt, and navy-blue pants. A beige checkered pocket square is in his breast pocket.
Bogie as Phillip Marlowe in the 1946 detective noir film The Big Sleep during the rare book shop scene. The dark grey birdseye wool tweed suit would be his go-to suit throughout the film and consists of a large notch lapeled suit jacket with a welted breast pocket, straight jetted hip pockets, 4-button cuffs, and a ventless back. He wears a long point, collared beige, square button cuffed dress shirt with a black silk tie adjusted short to accommodate the high waist of his double reverse-pleated trousers with a tooled western-style thin leather belt. A beige cotton pocket square finishes his outfit alongside a dark brown felt snap-brim fedora with a wide black satin ribbon.
Bogart plays Phillipe Marlowe in the 1946 crime film The Big Sleep. Here, he wears a chalk-striped navy-blue flannel suit with a double-breasted, broad peak lapeled ventless suit jacket with welted breast pockets and straight jetted hip pockets. He wears this with a long cotton white point collared dress shirt, matching cotton white pocket square, and a satin burgundy tie. He wears this ensemble whenever he meets Vivian Rutledge, played by Lauren Bacall.
Bogart with Bacall in the 1944 romance adventure war film To Have and Have Not. In a rare moment outside of his captain's attire, Bogart can be seen here wearing a flannel powder blue suit that consists of a wide notch-lapeled suit jacket with welted breast pocket and a black skinny tie over a button-down collared white dress shirt with a matching white pocket square.
