Poor Tim Dalton. As well as being a very dull James Bond, he was also the incumbent when men's fashion had travelled down a very dark road - a time where men wore pastels and no socks. Cheap looking, casual suits were the vogue and Tim looked every inch the dour accountant in most of them. Even in his tuxedo, Tim looked more head waiter than gentleman spy. His fashion nadir comes in the pre-credits sequence of Licence To Kill. As best man for pal Felix Leiter's birthday, Bond is dressed in a nasty grey wedding suit complete with top hat and tails and looks like your uncle. Worse is to come, however, as Bond and Leiter take off in their DEA helicopter after drugs baron Franz Sanchez in his little plane. Bond winches himself out of the helicopter to lasso the wire around the tail of Sanchez's plane. A great idea if he wasn't dressed in a jacket with tails that blow around him making him resemble a giant grey goose. Tim does himself no favours by meekly waving his arms around. More astoundingly, after this Licence To Kill actually manages to get worse.
Writer of The Blog of Delights, a review site covering film, TV, cult TV, books and audio. Fan of Dr Who, Bond, X-Men and Marvel. Also the writer of e-book 'Fictional Legends: Doctor Who - the TV Adventures' for Collca.
