Get Out: Chris’ Plaid Jacket, Henley, and Hoodie
Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington in Get Out (2017)
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Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington, Brooklyn photographer
Upstate New York, Spring 2016
Film: Get Out
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Director: Jordan Peele
Costume Designer: Nadine Haders
WARNING! Spoilers ahead!
Background
Happy birthday to Daniel Kaluuya, who received his first Academy Award nomination for Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out, released on Kaluuya’s 28th birthday seven years ago today.
Peele won the Oscar for his original screenplay, centered around Brooklyn photographer Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) joining his new girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) to meet her parents Dean (Bradley Whitford) and Missy (Catherine Keener) for the first time. Despite the family’s initial affability, Chris increasingly comes to recognize something more sinister beneath Dean’s unprompted insistence that he “would have voted for Obama for a third term” and Missy’s unsolicited late-night hypnotic therapy.
What’d He Wear?
Chris comfortably layers for the journey upstate, building on his base outfit of a blue shirt and dark jeans. Costume designer Nadine Hader explained to Brooke Bobb for Vogue the intentionality behind the colors she chose as “blue was the color of his urban life, his true self.”
For the initial drive and first day of their visit, Chris wears a mid-blue slubbed cotton long-sleeved henley shirt that has a short placket of three smoke-gray plastic buttons.
Rose makes a point of asking Chris if he brought his “cozy clothes”, evidently the gray T-shirt and sweatpants to match the zip-up hoodie he wears for their car ride upstate. Haders shared that the gray was intentional as “it’s a color that exists in a world between black and white.”
The light heather gray hooded sweatshirt is made from a lightweight cloth, likely either cotton or a “cozy” cotton/polyester blend. The straight front zip is mid-blue, matching the flat mid-blue woven drawstrings that pull through the nickel-toned eyelet on each side of the hood.
Chris’ outer layer is a hip-length jacket made from a large-scaled brown and black buffalo plaid, each square framed by a muted, multi-tonal graph check. The collared jacket has a five-button front placket and beige contrast stitching along the edges and seams, including along the straight shoulder yoke reinforcing the upper back. The set-in sleeves are finished with single-button squared cuffs. The two patch-style pockets over the chest each close with a single button through a pointed flap, complemented by jetted pockets at hand level with a subtly slanted vertical entry.
Chris’ dark indigo five-pocket jeans are made from a stretchy cotton blend, suggested by Spotern to be the FRAME L’Homme Skinny-Leg jeans, likely in the dark indigo “Edison” wash. (This is reinforced by the glimpse we get of FRAME’s signature olive-green reverse side where the bottoms of his jeans are cuffed into his boots.)
Assuming he wears the same belt as he would the following day, Chris holds the jeans up with a tan leather belt that closes through a large brass-toned oval-shaped buckle.
Throughout the weekend, Chris opts for the durable Red Wing 8111 Iron Rangers work boots, a style originating from the 1930s when the Minnesota-based footwear company introduced them for iron miners. These six-inch boots feature a Goodyear welt and Puritan triple-stitch construction, notable for their distinctive toe-cap and derby-laced arrangement consisting of four sets of eyelets and three sets of speed hooks above them.
Enhanced with leather insoles and cork midsoles for additional comfort, they are anchored to a Vibram® 430 mini-lug outsole. The oiled full-grain leather uppers are a russet-brown hue which Red Wing describes as “amber harness,” complemented by aftermarket blue nubuck laces threaded through the nickel eyelets and speed hooks.
Chris’ jewelry consists of a silver box-chain link necklace and two bracelets on his left wrist. The foremost bracelet features a strap of medium-brown leather secured with a brass squared single-prong buckle and matching keeper. Behind it, he wears a simple brass bangle. with etchings across the top.
How to Get the Look
Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington in Get Out (2017)
- Brown-and-black multi-plaid cotton twill hip-length jacket with shirt-style collar, 5-button front placket, 2 patch chest pockets (with single-button pointed flap), jetted-entry hand pockets, and single-button squared cuffs
- Light heather gray lightweight cotton zip-up hoodie with mid-blue zipper and drawstrings
- Mid-blue slubbed cotton long-sleeved 3-button henley shirt
- Dark indigo stretchy cotton-blend denim five-pocket jeans
- FRAME L’Homme Skinny-Leg Jeans
- Tan leather belt with large brass oval-shaped belt buckle
- Russet-brown oiled full-grain leather 6-inch cap-toe work boots with nickel four-eyelet/triple-hook derby lacing, cork midsoles, and Vibram® 430 mini-lug outsoles
- Red Wing 8111 Iron Ranger
- Silver box-chain link necklace
- Brass bangle bracelet
- Brown leather bracelet strapped through brass single-prong buckle and matching keeper
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