For the sake of this discussion, I’ll be talking about five characters as they’re introduced, and the outfits we first encounter them wearing. I’ll add other inspiration based on their costumes in the links, but I’ll try not to talk about them as much. Chief Martin Brody The costumes from Jaws are not flashy or designer, but they are intentional as hell. Every outfit is not only a great representation of the character, but it also feels like something they would have wanted to wear. Whether they chose it for form or function (looking at you, Quint), the costumes help us blur the line between character and real person.

In the same way, the function of a costume is not only to wow the audience but to inform them about the character. I may not gush over the outfits in Breaking Bad, but they are an integral part of the storytelling process.

Good costuming goes beyond the design. For most movies, you have to have multiples of each outfit for continuity. You also have to consider the actors, the resources, and the money you have on hand, plus the time your team has to put everything together. For the movie, it was important that the customers chose outfits that both worked for each character, and were easy to find. The Casio MDV-106 is the perfect watch for a guy like Quint. It’s inexpensive, durable and no-nonesense. Throw it on a perlon strap and you have something that will take a beating with the fast-drying, easy to adjust perlon strap being the ultimate strap for tough voyaging. The American Optical Aviators were the original aviators used by the US Air Force during the Vietnam Conflict and well beyond. Randolph Engineering now produces them for the US Military but American Optical still makes them to GI spec in the USA for the civilian market. One of the biggest reasons Jaws was a success is because Spielberg goes hard on realism. It doesn’t matter if the story is about aliens, dinosaurs, or 25-ft sharks, he knows that if the audience doesn’t believe you, your movie is tanked. Spielberg has a plethora of techniques to usher the audience into the world of the movie without destroying the suspension of disbelief.

The costumes in Jaws are a perfect example of this storytelling technique. Although they appear natural enough to be from the actor’s closet, each piece was carefully selected to enhance story-telling. I hope that by the end of this, you’ll understand what dressing like the movie Jaws has to do with personal styling. Dressing Like Jaws: “Timeless” 70s Summer Style Take a look at the three main characters, Quint, Brody and Hooper, and you can see how important, and subtle the costuming is. Even if you’ve never seen the film it’s easy to see which character is the battered old fisherman, the big city cop turned small-town police chief, and the young academic in the field. Where Jaws succeeds is the verisimilitude of these outfits. They don’t look like costumes or stereotypes of how these people are supposed to look. It’s just how they look. It’s hard to write about Jaws. Everyone knows it. Even if you’ve never seen it you know all of the film's story beats because they’ve been copied so many times. You’re probably terrified of sharks even though more people are killed every year by donkeys. You can thank Jaws for that. Peter Benchley, the author of the original novel and screenplay, later became an ocean conservationist and expressed regret at having ever written it. It was a cultural phenom the likes of which had never been seen before. The other issue with filming on the open ocean is that Mother Nature gives no damns. Even on days when the weather was nice, they had to stop filming for leisure boats and other passersby. One of their boats sunk during filmmaking, and it was just… it was a lot.Bond characters are a tried and true Halloween staple. Here’s how to make it your own and stand out this year.

Now, these aren’t going to be perfect replicas of the looks in the film. It’s not cosplay and it’s based around easy to find clothing that most guys have already in their wardrobes. You may need to buy a new piece or two but almost everything here can be considered a staple. Instead of that, we’re gonna have to piece some other information together. The Tumultuous History of Jaws Hi-key, when I decided I wanted to do Hero Looks, Jaws was at the top of my list. As a kid, I was too scared to watch it, but it’s okay, I’ve watched it two or three times a year to make up for the lost time.

As I’m sure some of y’all have noticed, I really enjoy movies with flashy costumes and over-the-top fantasy elements. While we can take elements from exciting costumes and incorporate them into our Hero Looks, there is a lot to be said about a simple look that works as an introduction. That’s why I love the 70s summer style of J aws. Matt Hooper enters the story as the young oceanographer brought into the field to figure out what the hell is going on and his costume reflects that perfectly. His leather duffle bag shows his youth. He is a professional but he has not been out of college for very long. I know plenty of guys who have a bag just like this handed down from their dad’s college days and they still use it to this day. He wears a watch cap and a dive watch to show his bona fides as an ocean explorer. He is an oceanographer dammit and he will be taken seriously.

For the rest of the movie, we’ll see him in the same hat with a variety of denim, fisherman’s sweaters, and his military coat. Hooper Lots of us feel like we don’t belong like we’re characters in someone else’s play. Maybe your job tells you what to do and wear. Or maybe you feel like someone else is dictating what you should be like, whether it’s the kids at school or the moms at the park. But you can make your own personal style choices without looking like you’re wearing a costume. Originally published by Doubleday in 1974, the book differs from its cinematic counterpart somewhat in that the characters are portrayed much more sympathetically on screen. Still, the original work remains a compelling read all these years later, and is highly recommended to anyone who only has seen Spielberg’s take on the source material. Finding your Hero Look comes down to time, money, availability, and intentionality. If we had the budget and fashion resources like Audrey Hepburn’s Funny Face , we’d be wearing designer every day. But most of us are 104 days over schedule and need a bigger boat. With 25 (official) films in the James Bond film franchise, there are plenty of creative costume ideas to choose from in the long-running spy saga.Despite not being comfortable at sea Brody still manages to save the day and go on to slaughter even more sharks in a multitude of Jaws sequels. Whether you’re a fan of the classic Sean Connery films like Goldfinger and Dr. No or you prefer Daniel Craig’s world-weary take on Bond, there are plenty of ideas you can borrow for this year’s Halloween costume. Misterjaw was another shameless attempt to make the shark craze palpable for young viewers desperate to think of the ferocious fish as something more than the subject of their pool/bathtub/bedtime terrors from the period of 1975 to 1980. (Not that any of us aren’t still absolutely terrified of the undersea beasties). But this show differs from the animated garbage fire that is Jabberjaw for two reasons. First, it is really cleverly done. You see, Misterjaw is a lovable character who had the good fortune of being a recurring segment on The Pink Panther and Friends, a series created by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises — a company that never quite acquired the stink of repetition that plagued the output by its rivals of the era like Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. But here’s a fun fact: there are no credited costume designers on Jaws. Robert Ellsworth, Louise Clark, and Irwin Rose were credited later, but looking for them on IMBD, you won’t see Jaws. As someone who loves research, that makes me kind of crazy. This is one of my favorite movies, and I can’t find a single interview about the costumes? Quelle tragedie.