Elvis Costello... The Man and his attires

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I know this is stupid but I am so fascinated with the off-beat, eccentric style of the man. Please, for my own sick pleasure, post pictures of his most odd attires you've seen !
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I don't kow about you, but my wife wouldn't allow me out of the house with some of EC's shirt & tie combinations.
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Great DVD by the way.
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Mikeh wrote:I don't kow about you, but my wife wouldn't allow me out of the house with some of EC's shirt & tie combinations.
Some of the combinations are less "Voice in the dark" and more like "Dressed in the dark".
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Screw that lol My girlfriend wouldn't be my girlfriend if I got caught in public with some of that lol
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Even privately you'd be hard pushed to get away with the silver cowboy boots which he wore for about 100 nights in a row :lol:
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LOL I love his outfits! The "golden" suit is my favorite.

In the Live in Memphis DVD extras there's a scene of him buying a blue shirt. He seems to look for the most ugly shirt colour in the whole shop.
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I'll inflict more sartorial images when I get a chance but this one from 1983 just has to go here now !

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The first photo has always seemed to work as an ensemble but that second picture is a 'horror' show. Perhaps it is the smile in the second which is more of a leer to my mind. I have always appreciated that he was not afraid to bare his receding hair line at that time.
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It looks like the 80s vomited on that sweater.

johnfoyle wrote:I'll inflict more sartorial images when I get a chance but this one from 1983 just has to go here now !

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The sweater is even better when combined with white bagge throusers.... as showcased on Swedish TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQH-O2T56oQ
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krm wrote:The sweater is even better when combined with white bagge throusers.... as showcased on Swedish TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQH-O2T56oQ
That is just too 80's 'shabby'- as my wife reminds me that might have been in my closet at the time!
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