Comments on: Make me Jack

Question: Make me Jack

brautigan — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:31:04 -0800

How to look like Jack?

I'm attending a rather fetishistic / burlesque club night where the theme is "Greed Is Good", and the dress code is very much Millionaire. The SO has her Paris Hilton look down to a tee and I've decided to dress a la Jack Nicholson given my greying hair and paunch.

I have a single breasted dinner jacket, pants and tux but what else would set off the Jack look. What cigars does he smoke? What make are his trademark shades and what else would make a non-Jack look Jack?

Any links to UK suppliers would be great.

Many thanks.

By: rossination

rossination — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:48:05 -0800

I would at least go for some stubble.

By: chairface

chairface — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:07:01 -0800

Isn't he a big Lakers fan? Maybe some season tickets poking out of a pocket.

By: RobotHero

RobotHero — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:08:26 -0800

Eyebrows.

By: mendel

mendel — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:09:30 -0800

Definitely stubble. I don't think he has trademark shades, just a trademark style: narrow black plastic frames with gray to dark lenses. Any cigar will do. Note that Jack's hair isn't that gray, he's just got an advanced receding hairline.

The best thing you can do is look at photos of Jack to see how he carries himself. The eyebrows, the grin, the posture are a major part of what makes him who he is.

One great way to figure out what visual keys make a star identifiable is to look at caricatures. Forehead, eyebrows, grin, dark glasses and tux seem to be the big features.

Also, carry a fistful of Oscars.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:12:52 -0800

Until I got to the last sentence, I assumed you meant Jack Abramoff, which is easier to do, and prolly more appropriate to the theme.

Fedora, black. Trenchcoat, black. Piece of cake.

If nobody gets it, you could always add a moustache and fake bomb and tell people you're Boris Badanoff.

By: essexjan

essexjan — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:21:48 -0800

The sunglasses used to be Ray-Ban Wayfarers, but he's worn a different style in recent years. But they're always black-framed.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:25:48 -0800

Carry an axe and scream a lot.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:33:17 -0800

Yeah, the shades, stubble, slick the hair back, gel gel gel.

The Tux with a white shirt, no tie (or tie, not tied).

Other than that and you are overselling it (no body outside the few readers of Cigar Aficionado are going to know a specific type of cigar that Jack really smokes)

By: mendel

mendel — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:58:36 -0800

no tie (or tie, not tied).

Yes! Open bow tie.

By: rob511

rob511 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:50:19 -0800

Gel the sides of your hair into van Horns.

By: frogan

frogan — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:11:12 -0800

What make are his trademark shades

Standard black Ray-Ban Wayfarers.