Dylan’s love-worn jackets, scarves and workwear are about to make a fashion comeback.
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is,” said the ever-enigmatic Bob Dylan back in 1965, the year that would become cemented in Dylan-lore as the one in which he went electric.
“When Dylan arrived into New York in the winter of 1961, his style was as much a construct as his new name and backstory: part-roustabout, part-Beatnik,” says Bill Prince, editor-in-chief of“The Dutch cap, workshirt, stove-legged denims and hard-travelled boots were a piece of New York’s folksy demimonde, then in thrall to the likes of Woody Guthrie and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.
Much like his seismic segue from folk to electric guitar, Dylan’s style swerved from authentic chore jackets and rather more downplayed ensembles to something sharper and more deliberate . By the late ’60s, his image was broodingly atmospheric; the black jackets – either military or leather, alongside lean-as-you-like jeans, Cuban-heeled boots and perhaps a trailing scarf.
Today at 82, it’s still part of his identity; at a performance last year, his black ensemble (with Western-style darting and piping, once again ahead of a trend which has since gone global thanks to Beyonce’ new song,The cover for the Bob Dylan album ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’, released in 1963.What takeaways are there for the new generation of Dylan enthusiasts that the film will undoubtedly garner? The shades, of course – Dylan was fond of Ray-Ban Caribbeans.
If Dylan does wear a suit, it’s in an insouciant, easy way rather than trussed-up like a captain of industry behind a desk – sharp cuts and Breton tops or shirt undone. As for the signature mane; that’s something that remains, like his music and his beguiling turn-of-phrase – entirely Dylan.
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