It’s Peter Cushing’s birthday, so here’s a thread of his greatest sartorial moments.
Let’s start with The Hound of The Baskervilles (1959).
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His Holmes was agile, charming, effortlessly elegant.

That profile!

Quite the dandy, even when he was possibly on morphine.

Here he is as Dr Christopher Maitland in The Skull (1965), because I’m a sucker for smoking jackets/ banyans, especially in burgundy.

Here he is as a dashing scientist in the Himalayas in The Abominable Snowman (1957). Mountaineering. Total fantasy.

Hanging out at the graveyard, wearing midnight blue (swoon!), with a touch of silver at the temples, while filming Frankenstein Created Woman (1967).

Cape, cravat, and sideburns in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Dear God, cravat and sideburns again in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958). Sigh.

In 1946, asking us to drive safely in “It Might Be You”, a short film for the Ministry of Information.

And, finally, what we were all awaiting. Van Helsing. That fur coat, those gloves, those cheekbones.

Casually touching his neck, hair disheveled.