Which fictional character’s style do you find most iconic? (Choose 2)

[Styleforum Ari]

 

[FlyingMonkey]

This would be better if you had the possibility of write-in votes...

 

[zissou]

This poll is missing Dickie Greenleaf from The Talented Mr. Ripley.

 

[comrade]

Terry-Thomas

 

[JFWR]

Which visual representation of each character are we using? Because I am not so sure I can make stylistic evaluations based on descriptions in literature, unless those descriptions are quite vivid and (ideally) someone would quote the passage here.

 

[Duke Santos]

This guy and Bond would have been my preferred two choices. And since it said "fictional characters" rather than "literary characters," my mind naturally went towards movie style icons.

 

[ter1413]

This poll sux!

"Iconic"? Fixed!

 

[Thin White Duke]

This guy and Bond would have been my preferred two choices. And since it said "fictional characters" rather than "literary characters," my mind naturally went towards movie style icons.

Good shouts, along with Michael Caine suited and booted in ‘The Italian Job’.
But no-one can hold a handle to the man I model my life on - Sterling Malory Archer. Not the greatest spy in the world but the greatest spy in the history of the world!

 

[jonathanS]

This guy and Bond would have been my preferred two choices. And since it said "fictional characters" rather than "literary characters," my mind naturally went towards movie style icons.

Pretty sure Mr. Thornhill counts as a double fictional character

 

[comrade]

I prefer the younger, tweedier, Grant despite the
lack of a vent(s) and overly extended shoulders:

 

[ladislav.jancik]

I prefer the younger, tweedier, Grant despite the
lack of a vent(s) and overly extended shoulders:

I agree. I would even replace "despite" with "because of".

 

[marmite]

Other than Sherlock, most other suggestions are well executed run of the mill styles of the epoch.

Dylan Dog gets my vote.

He sports a bold and memorable look that perfectly conveys his ethos (or lack thereof) and disregard of the rules, and elongates his figure to signal that his strength lies not in brawling nature but in the spiritual domain.

It's either that or I simply like his fit.

 

[Thin White Duke]

I prefer the younger, tweedier, Grant despite the
lack of a vent(s) and overly extended shoulders:

Even the iconic NXNW suit was ventless. Which is fine by me! (As is the Junkanoo sharkskin in ‘Thunderball’).

Archer: How would you press a tweed suit?
Alistair (prospective valet): I’d press it right into a trash can!😁😁

 

[comrade]

Even the iconic NXNW suit was ventless. Which is fine by me! (As is the Junkanoo sharkskin in ‘Thunderball’).

Archer: How would you press a tweed suit?
Alistair (prospective valet): I’d press it right into a trash can!😁😁

It is probably a symptom of my addiction to noticing and remembering style
attributes from early childhood, is not Grant's suit in NXNW, which I recall in detail and
the fact that he requested that it be pressed and "sponged", but that I noticed that
Martin Landau was wearing two or three eyelet plain toe derbies, several pairs of
which I currently own.( My eighth grade teacher Mrs Kaimsky would declare this
a "run-on sentence" for sure.)

 

[SouthernGothic]

No one has posted Kolchak's ensemble as iconic?
Seriously though, I have always admired James Bond's grey three piece in Goldfinger. In high school, I had my father's grey three piece which was similar and from the same time period, and wore it as much as possible.
It remains in my imagination still.