Fashion Monday with JJ Lee

"Well it's got to be. I'll order you a red cap and a Speedo." TODAY, we offer Father’s Day gifts all themed around the films of Wes Anderson . Anderson is the American film director best known for his comedy, Rushmore , which is about a precocious polymath teenager at a private school who falls in love with his teacher. Of course there is also Fantastic Mr. Fox , The Royal Tenenbaums , The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited . His latest, Moonrise Kingdom , came out this weekensd. I nearly all his works we will find themes built around unsteady masculinity, boy-men looking for meaning, and often missing or wounded father figures, and these his films we often find items from the world of fashion used to connect the characters. To wit, I present stylish gift ideas inspired by the stylish films of Wes Anderson: 1. THE LIFE AQUATIC with STEVE ZISSOU Who can resist a nice tight Speedo? You can find swim briefs in navy, red, and blac...

It's not a Barbour jacket because that would be too posh for English cockney kids. Not a trucker. Not enough seams. With classic bomber jackets, I see shearling and welt pockets. Or pilot jackets with no shearling and patch pockets mid-torso for navigation maps and cigarettes. Need more detail? Sorry, didn't mean to cut off his wand. It was especially made, presumably, by UK costumiers, Angels . I would describe it as a zip-front ranch jacket. Belstaff, the motorcyle jacket company, refers to this kind of cut as a blouson . Quiksilver (below) has something close but the collar is different. It also comes in gunmetal grey.