Fred Astaire, a Fashion Icon

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"I'm fairly careful about the tailoring," he says, 'I usually take my suits back to the shop at least half a dozen times—too much shoulder or too loose or too tight. What I dislike is wearing a lot of material.' He meditates for a moment. 'I don't see any reason to carry all that extra cloth about,' he adds."

"If has any preferences for a cloth, Astaire says that it is for a light silky cashmere of vicuna. 'There's nothing that makes me feel quite as well as a light overcoat of dark blue vicuna,' he says."

His standard of taste in dressing is simple. "I just don't like a suit to stand out. I don't want someone looking twice at me and saying in an incredulous tone: 'What was that'?'"

Astaire does not care for the new Ivy League look. "I simply don't understand it," he says. "It may look well on some people, young ones, but it's terrible on me." He believes that his measure of male dress is basically British. "You have to give them credit. They have been very stable in their designing and tailoring. They hardly ever change."
 

I had to ask Google about Vicuna......
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Vicuna - Princess of the Andes

"The vicuna wool was once considered the cloth of Gold by the Incas. It is one of the most favored fabrics among the people residing in the colder regions of the Andes because of its unique softness and its impressive ability to retain heat".

"This wool in the old times was much celebrated and was only worn by the royalty of Incas and was not permitted to be worn by the commoners. Today times might have changed, but this wool, which is used in making apparel such as shawls, suits, coats, and even home furnishings like warm and cozy blankets and throws still stands very valuable".
 

"After this Fred appeared in various roles (shop proprietor, policeman, chauffeur, cab driver etc) in a TV movie called The Man in the Santa Claus Suit, broadcast on December 23rd, 1979, and co-starring John Byner, Bert Convy and Gary Burghoff as three men who hire a Father Christmas suit and are changed by the experience of wearing it. And guess who plays the real Santa Claus at the end..."?
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Santa Claus, as played by Fred!
 
Dancing Through The Little Known Details Of Fred Astaire’s Life

An Enduring Legend​

Now and again, an artist comes along that absolutely defines a genre, even decades after their death. While movie musicals have been in decline since the 1950s, Fred Astaire is still hailed as one of the greatest dancers of all time. His routines in popular films have influenced some of the most celebrated dancers and choreographers of the 20th century, but behind the genial grin lies a man that very few people got to know. (READ MORE)

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A very elegant man and the world's best dancer. Read that on the sets he had a table and white tablecloth, and was served his meals by a butler. No fast food for Fred.
 
MY GRANDFATHER WAS FRED ASTAIRE

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"If you ask Tyler McKenzie about his grandfather, he might dance around the topic. That's because his grandfather was Fred Astaire, and he is shy about discussing it. But he did, with the West Seattle Herald, and seemed to develop a bounce in his step recalling hanging out with perhaps the greatest dancer in the world." (READ MORE)
 
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