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@bode Joe Burrow (@joeyb_9 ) wears a custom Bode suit embellished with handmade frog closures, a style of ornament borrowed from historical smoking jackets, a type of men’s lounge jacket from which the tuxedo was developed. The midnight blue wool references the first garment historians consider a “tuxedo,” a deep blue dinner jacket commissioned by the Prince of Wales. This suit design is grounded in the concept of the “Classical Body,” for which we looked to the Grand Manner style popular in early American portraiture. Grand Manner painters depicted their subjects in the poses of Greco-Roman sculpture—athletes, gods, and public leaders. The suit is embellished with passementerie from that early American period: Victorian mourning trim around the lapels and early 19th-century jet beadwork down the side seams of the trousers. Thank you to our wonderful team for their work bringing this piece to life.
