Vitals

Robert De Niro as Sam “Ace” Rothstein, Vegas casino executive and mob associate

Las Vegas, 1973 to 1983

Film: Casino
Release Date: November 22, 1995
Director: Martin Scorsese
Costume Design: Rita Ryack & John A. Dunn
Tailors: Carlos Velasco, Tommy Velasco, and Vincent Zullo

WARNING! Spoilers ahead!

Martin Scorsese’s Las Vegas-centric crime epic Casino premiered in New York City thirty years ago tonight on November 14, 1995, eight days before its wider release.

Chronicling the rise and fall of the midwest mob’s influence in Sin City during the 1970s and ’80s, Casino stars Robert De Niro as Sam “Ace” Rothstein, a fictionalization of real-life bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal (1929-2008). De Niro was re-teamed with Joe Pesci as yet another volatile gangster—this time the hotheaded Chicago hitman Nicky Santoro, based on Lefty’s actual pal Tony “the Ant” Spilotro, and Sharon Stone received an Academy Award nomination as Ace’s hustler wife Ginger.

Part of Casino‘s legacy is due to the lavish costume design by Rita Ryack and John A. Dunn, who researched and worked with the real Lefty’s tailors and shirt-makers to recreate the gambler’s eye-catching style for the screen. De Niro’s dozens of costume changes in suits and sport jackets ranging from bright pastels to rich plaids (and occasionally both at the same time!) have led to many ongoing myths about the movie’s wardrobe, which I’d like to dispel from information provided firsthand by Ms. Ryack:

• The movie’s costume budget was not as high as $1 million, despite what’s been reported on places like IMDB.
• Though there are photographs from the set of Giorgio Armani inspecting De Niro’s clothing, his suits and sport jackets were tailored by Vincent Zullo, Tommy Velasco, Carlos Velasco, and a tailor named Dominic from Disney.

In addition to the aforementioned tailors, Rita Ryack and John Dunn worked with Beverly Hills shirtmaker Anto to craft shirts, ties, and pocket squares using the actual cloths and cuts favored by the real Lefty Rosenthal during the 1970s and ’80s. De Niro’s screen-worn shoes were from Bally, Bruno Magli, Di Fabrizio, Florsheim, and Johnston & Murphy, in addition to black slippers from Neiman Marcus and Roundtree & York. The team spent considerable time with Lefty during their preparation for the film, which included trips into his personal closet.

Although many of Ace’s on-screen looks defy easy description—just like the complex character himself!—I did my best to catalog everything that De Niro visibly wears on screen!

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Salmon-Pink Jacket for a Car Bombing

Casino begins with a bang—literally and sartorially. We meet Ace in “1983” (actually October 4, 1982), walking across the parking lot of Tony Roma’s restaurant on East Sahara Avenue to his silver 1981 Cadillac Eldorado coupe. He turns the key… and is engulfed in flames, launching us a decade into the past to the dramatic sounds of Bach’s “St Matthew Passion”.

• Jacket: Salmon-pink raw silk with fish-mouth lapels, patch pockets, single-button cuffs, and double vents
• Shirt: Pink charmeuse silk with point collar and tab cuffs
• Tie: Pink satin silk
• Pocket square: Pale-yellow pocket square
• Trousers: White flat-front beltless trousers with extended waistband, front pockets, flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: White leather Bally loafers
• Socks: Pink silk socks
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut diamond
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat yellow-, white-, and rose-gold vintage quartz watch with square rose-gold/white-gold dial flanked by 38 full-cut pave-set diamonds on mixed-gold herringbone band

You can read more about this look in one of my first BAMF Style posts here.

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Green Herringbone Silk Suit

Initially only seen for a brief but memorable shot as we establish Ace’s casino empire within the Tangiers ten years earlier (1973), this vignette also maintains Ace’s particular style of dressing: unorthodox colors, shirts and ties often of matching fabric, and rotating pinky rings to coordinate with the entire ensemble.

• Suit: Green herringbone silk
  • Jacket: Single-breasted jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, and single-button cuffs
  • Trousers: Beltless flat-front trousers with flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Beige charmeuse silk with point collar and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Beige satin silk
• Pocket square: Beige satin silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with green emerald stone
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat yellow-gold quartz watch with black squared dial (with gold dot hour markers) on polished, textured gold-link bracelet with fold-over clasp
• Ace’s shoes never appear on screen.

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Cream, Black, and Blue Plaid Blazer

One of several tailored pieces to only appear in a single shot, Ace wears this blazer (which classifies as such due to the metal buttons) during an early vignette looking out onto the Tangiers sports book from his office. The jacket may resemble other checked sports coats he wears throughout Casino, but the colors, pattern, and details distinguish this from those.

• Jacket: Cream, black, and blue multi-checked plaid blazer with peak lapels and single gold-finished cuff-buttons with teal lacquer
• Shirt: Cornflower-blue charmeuse silk with point collar and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Cornflower-blue satin silk
• Pocket square: Cornflower-blue satin silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with blue synthetic emerald-cut stone
• Ace’s trousers and shoes never appear on screen.

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Gray Tonal-Striped Silk Suit

Early in Ace’s reign, he emerges from a black late ’60s Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado coupe under the bright entrance to the Tangiers, where he meets his casino manager Billy Sherbert (Don Rickles). The suit follows a unique cut that differs from most of his tailoring to follow.

• Suit: Gray self-striped silk
  • Jacket: Single-button suit jacket with straight-gorge peak lapels, welted breast pocket, straight flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Pale-ecru charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket, and tab cuffs
• Tie: Pale-ecru satin silk
• Pocket square: Pale-ecru satin silk
• Shoes: Black leather cap-toe oxfords
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat white-gold vintage quartz watch with square dial (with black hands) on tapered herringbone band with single cubic zirconia setting
• Ace’s pinky ring can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Tan Peak-Lapel Suit

Blink and you’ll miss Ace striding through the Tangiers past “this old Mormon fuck” John Nance (Bill Allison) while Nicky’s voiceover explains the mob’s skim operation. With the jacket’s broad shoulders, wide peak lapels, single-button closure, and squared front quarters, this suit is clearly cut like a pair of dark-blue ones he wears in other scenes set during the ’70s.

• Suit: Tan
  • Jacket: Single-button suit jacket with wide peak lapels, welted breast pocket, slightly slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Ice-white charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket, and tab cuffs
• Tie: Ice-white satin silk
• Pocket square: Ice-white satin silk
• Shoes: Brown leather split-toe derbies
• Ace’s gold pinky ring and watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Taupe Suit with Brown-and-Blue Overcheck

In early May of 1972, Ace and Billy watch as Andy Stone (Alan King) awards Philip Green (Kevin Pollak) a check for $62.7 million on behalf of the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund. We don’t see below Ace’s waist, but—based on the occasion—we can infer that he’s wearing a full suit rather than just a plaid jacket.

• Jacket: Light taupe-brown with a subdued light-blue and complex brown overcheck
• Shirt: Cornflower-blue charmeuse silk with point collar and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Cornflower-blue satin silk
• Pocket square: Cornflower-blue satin silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat white-gold with aquamarine emerald-cut stone
• Ace’s white-gold wristwatch, trousers, and shoes can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Colorful Check Poolside Sport Jacket

It’s presumably around this same time that Andy has his poolside chat with Ace at the Riviera (which stood in for the fictional Tangiers), asking him to run the casino over Ace’s hesitations. This brief scene debuts his sporty tortoise aviator-style sunglasses, which some have suggested to be Carrera frames but these temples are clearly marked with a different logo that looks like “SunCloud”.

• Jacket: Blue, green, red, and yellow-on-white houndstooth check sport jacket with wide peak lapels, welted breast pocket, straight jetted hip pockets, and single-button cuffs
• Shirt: Yellow charmeuse silk with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Pocket square: Yellow satin silk
• Trousers: White flat-front beltless trousers with frogmouth front pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: White leather loafers
• Socks: Cream silk voile
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut diamond
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat yellow-gold quartz watch with black squared dial (with gold dot hour markers) on polished, textured gold-link bracelet with fold-over clasp
• Sunglasses: Tortoise plastic-framed “SunCloud” sporty aviator sunglasses

This was always one of my favorite looks from Casino, so you can read more about it in one of my first BAMF Style posts about it here.

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Gray Iridescent Twill Suit

Once Andy et al have agreed to Ace’s terms, he begins running the Tangiers with the characteristic exactitude of a man who “ate, slept and breathed gambling.” He works the casino floor, examining the dice used on the craps table and criticizing a dealer’s chip methods.

• Suit: Gray iridescent twill silk
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button suit jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, slightly slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Pale-pink charmeuse silk with point collar and tab cuffs
• Tie: Gray-and-orange muted “uphill” shadow-striped silk tie
• Shoes: Black leather cap-toe oxfords
• Ace’s gold pinky ring and watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify. He doesn’t wear a pocket square with this suit.

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“Back Home, Years Ago”

Ace builds his reputation as the “fuckin’ brain surgeon” of gangland gamblers through the 1960s. He’s still a snazzy dresser, but his style is more conventional—better-suited for the Midwest mob scene than under the bright neon lights of Las Vegas. His suits are more conservative shades of navy and gray, paired with white (or off-white) shirts and silk ties, often layered under dark overcoats that would be considerably out of place in the warmer Nevada climate.

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Glen Plaid and Salmon-Overcheck Suit

And… back to 1973 Las Vegas! One suit that appeared more prominently in promotional photography than on screen itself was this natty take on a Prince of Wales check suit, detailed with the usual black-and-white glen plaid suiting but boldly overchecked in a salmon-framed windowpane that Ace coordinates to his shirt, which appears to be made from a lighter silk than his usual matte charmeuse shirting. He wears this outfit while doing what he does best: complaining about perceived incompetence in his casino.

• Suit: Black-and-white fine-woven glen plaid with salmon-framed windowpane overcheck
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button suit jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, slightly slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with frogmouth front pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Salmon-pink silk with point collar and linked single cuffs
• Tie: White satin silk
• Pocket square: White satin silk
• Shoes: Black leather cap-toe oxfords
• Ace’s gold pinky ring and watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Tan-and-Slate Muted Plaid Suit

While handling VIPs like a lecherous state senator (Dick Smothers) or Japanese “whale” K.K. Ichikawa (Nobu Matsuhisa), Ace wears yet another uniquely woven suit in a deeply muted tan-and-slate plaid, allowing him to play up either the warmth or cool tones based on the shirts and ties he pairs it with. He embraces the coolness with a matching pale-slate shirt and tie while entertaining the senator, then plays up the warmer shades in a cream shirt and gold tie when engineering the tycoon’s losses at the blackjack table.

• Suit: Tan-and-slate subtly woven plaid
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button suit jacket with fish-mouth lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with frogmouth front pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt #1: Pale-slate charmeuse silk with point collar and linked single cuffs
• Tie #1: Pale-slate satin silk
• Pocket square: Pale-slate satin silk
• Shirt #2: Cream charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Tie #2: Gold satin silk
• Shoes: Brown leather split-toe derbies
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut diamond
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat yellow-gold quartz watch with black squared dial (with gold dot hour markers) on polished, textured gold-link bracelet with fold-over clasp
• Sunglasses: Tortoise plastic-framed “SunCloud” sporty aviator sunglasses

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Blue Glen Check Suit

It’s unfortunately love at first sight for poor Ace—and only Ace—when he spies Ginger making a scene at the craps tables. After first noticing her while patrolling the “eye in the sky” cameras, he descends to the casino floor to witness the dazzling hustler’s antics that send Tangiers patrons slippin’ and slidin’ around the room.

• Suit: Blue-on-Blue Prince of Wales glen check silk twill
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button suit jacket with fish-mouth lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with frogmouth front pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Ice-white charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket, and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Light-blue satin silk
• Pocket square: Pale-slate satin silk
• Shoes: Black leather cap-toe oxfords
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with blue synthetic emerald-cut stone
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat white-gold vintage quartz watch with square dial (with black hands) on tapered herringbone band with single cubic zirconia setting

This suit was the focus of its own BAMF Style post earlier this year.

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Brown Muted-Stripe Suit

The next we see poor lovestruck Ace, he’s making out with Ginger somewhere in the Tangiers, where he seems almost happily suckered to dish out a hundred bucks for her to, uh, tip the bathroom attendant.

• Suit: Brown silk twill with muted rust, olive, and dark-brown stripes
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button suit jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with frogmouth front pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Cream charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Tie: Cream satin silk
• Pocket square: Cream satin silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with citrine emerald-cut stone, half-bezel set in geometric shank
• Watch: Juvena 18-carat yellow-gold watch with oval gold-toned dial (with gold baton hour indices) on gold woven-style bracelet (with fold-over clasp)
• Ace’s shoes never appear on screen.

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Pale-Gray Self-Striped Sport Suit

When the Santoros move out to Las Vegas and visit Ace in his Tangiers penthouse, they’re stunned to meet his new girlfriend Ginger—evidently unlike anyone Ace has ever dated before. (And how!) Ace dresses down in a sporty suit that shares some DNA with contemporary ’70s leisurewear, paired with a printed burgundy shirt—a rarity among his closet full of solid-colored matte silk shirting.

• Suit: Pale-gray self-striped sport suit
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button suit jacket with notch lapels, flapped hip pockets, and single-button pointed-tab cuff straps
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with frogmouth front pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Burgundy (with elongated white rectangular frame print) shirt with sporty open collar, plain front, and button cuffs
• Pinky ring: 14-carat white-gold with radiant-cut cubic zirconia
• Ace’s silver-toned watch and shoes can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Tan Checked Suit

Nicky establishes his presence at the Tangiers, illustrated by a scene where he subtly intimidates two meatheads trying to scam the casino. This method seems to earns Ace’s quiet approval, as seen by the nod he offers in response.

• Suit: Tan two-tone buffalo-plaid suit with darker-toned overcheck
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button suit jacket with fish-mouth lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with frogmouth front pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Cream charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Tie: Tan satin silk
• Pocket square: Cream satin silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut diamond
• Ace’s watch and shoes can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Navy Raw Silk Peak-Lapel Suit

Ace demonstrates that he doesn’t always need Nicky’s muscle to enforce the casino’s policies, dressed in all blues as he coolly convinces two blackjack cheaters to check the Tangiers off their hit list… with the help of a buzz-saw, a hammer, and a cattle prod:

They never know what hit them. And if, and when, they do find out that they just got zapped by a cattle prod, they wish they really did have a heart attack.

• Suit: Navy-blue lightweight raw silk
  • Jacket: Single-button jacket with wide peak lapels, welted breast pocket, patch hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front with side pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Sky-blue charmeuse silk with long point collar, plain front, and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Sky-blue satin silk
• Pocket square: Sky-blue satin silk
• Cuff links: 14-carat white gold with half-bezel set, emerald-cut aquamarine stones
• Shoes: Black leather horsebit loafers with silver bit detail and raised heels
• Socks: Dark-blue silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat white-gold with aquamarine emerald-cut stone
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat white-gold vintage quartz watch with square dial (with black hands) on tapered herringbone band with single cubic zirconia setting

You can read more about this suit and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Red Dotted Silk Robe

Poor Ace! As he himself narrates… for a guy who likes sure things, he’s about to bet the rest of his life on a real long shot. Dressed like the dashing romantic he envisions himself in that moment, Ace complicates an intimate evening in with Ginger by proposing to her—even when she admits she’s not in love with him.

• Dressing gown: Scarlet-red and white pin-dotted silk with burgundy-piped shawl collar and cuffs
• Shirt: Pink and white double-striped shirt with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Trousers: Pale-pink cotton pajama pants
• Slippers: Black velvet Neiman Marcus slippers with gold-beaded vamp embellishment
• Ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with cubic zirconia in geometric shank
• Ace’s watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

You can read more about this elegant loungewear in my BAMF Style post.

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Black Wedding Suit with White-on-White Shirt and Tie

Ace adapts his go-to aesthetic of a matching shirt and tie with a solid-colored suit for his wedding to Ginger, opting for the classic formality of black and white—in this case, a black suit and white silk shirt and tie (with a grenadine weave rather than his usual satin), decorated with matching white pocket square and white boutonnière.

• Suit: Black worsted wool
  • Jacket: Single-button jacket with wide peak lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Beltless flat-front trousers with frogmouth front pockets and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: White charmeuse silk with point collar and linked single cuffs
• Tie: White grenadine woven silk
• Pocket square: White satin silk
• Shoes: Black patent leather cap-toe oxfords
• Socks: Black silk socks
• Boutonnière: White carnation
• Pinky ring: 14-carat white-gold with radiant-cut cubic zirconia
• Ace’s watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

You can read more about Ace’s black wedding suit in this 2013 BAMF Style post, which was my first to focus on Robert De Niro!

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Green Western Suit

When Ace first brings Ginger to their shared home right behind the Las Vegas Country Club golf course, he’s also finally inviting us to see that colorful wardrobe firsthand—sorted into racks inside a closet bigger than most people’s bedrooms. He doesn’t disappoint with is own attire either, sporting shades of green as though sartorially communicating that he can’t believe his own luck. The iridescent light-green suit is detailed with Western yokes and blazer-style buttons for a truly unique presentation.

• Suit: Light-green iridescent mohair or silk
  • Jacket: Single-breasted jacket with notch lapels, 2 silver-finished blazer buttons, Western-pointed yokes, flapped hip pockets, two-button cuffs, and “action back” with inverted center pleat, half-belt, and single vent
  • Trousers: Beltless flat-front trousers with straight/on-seam side pockets and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Dark-green charmeuse silk with point collar, shoulder epaulets, two chest pockets (with single-button flaps), and tab cuffs
• Tie: Dark-green satin silk
• Shoes: Olive alligator leather tassel loafers
• Socks: Brown striped silk dress socks
• Pinky ring: 14-carat white-gold with green synthetic emerald stone
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat white-gold vintage watch with matching oval dial (with black Roman numeral hour indices) on textured tapered band with fold-over clasp

You can read more about this suit and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Yellow Linen Sport Jacket

Ace and Ginger are freshly settled at their new home before he jets them off to L.A., where they deposit two million dollars into a safety deposit box as “Mr. and Mrs. Tom Collins”. However, there’s no mistaking his true identity as it’s very Ace Rothstein for him to conduct some banking in a bright yellow linen jacket with a contrasting silk shirt and white loafers.

• Jacket: Yellow linen twill single-breasted 2-button sports coat with fish-mouth lapels, patch breast and hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Dark-navy charmeuse silk with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Trousers: Cream subtle-checked beltless flat-front trousers with extended squared waistband tab, frogmouth front pockets, and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: White leather moc-toe loafers
• Socks: Beige silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with blue synthetic emerald-cut stone
• Watch: Yellow-gold with gold squared dial on gold link bracelet
• Sunglasses: Tortoise plastic-framed “SunCloud” sporty aviator sunglasses

You can read more about what “Mr. Tom Collins” wears in my BAMF Style post.

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All-White Suit

Ace may feel settled in his personal life (despite marrying a woman who used his proposal to assure him that she didn’t love him), but things are getting tricky in his professional sphere as Nicky’s toxic influence is growing at the Tangiers.

• Suit: Cream self-stripe
  • Jacket: Single-breasted with fish-mouth lapels and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Cream charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Tie: Cream satin silk
• Ace’s shoes, pinky ring, and watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Dark-Navy Linen Suit with Lavender Shirt and Tie

When he’s reprimanding the incompetent Don Ward (John Bloom) and sharing his concerns about Nicky’s oversized presence, Ace continues wearing his signature formula of a solid-colored suit with matching shirt, tie, and kerchief—this time in a color combination that Rita Ryack described to me as a “deep navy” against silks in a “lavender (towards orchid).”

• Suit: Dark navy-blue linen/silk blend
  • Jacket: Single-button jacket with wide peak lapels, welted breast pocket, patch hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and double vents
  • Trousers: Beltless flat-front trousers with side pockets and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Lavender charmeuse silk with point collar, plain front, and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Lavender satin silk
• Pocket square: Lavender satin silk
• Shoes: Black leather horsebit loafers with silver bit detail and raised heels
• Socks: Black silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with blue synthetic emerald-cut stone
• Watch: White-gold with double-barred blue square dial and integrated white-gold expanding link bracelet

You can read more about this suit in my BAMF Style post.

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Mustard Micro-Checked Jacket

I have a soft spot for Ace’s all-yellowed slapdash suit of a micro-houndstooth checked jacket over solid trousers and coordinated silk shirt and grenadine tie, but even I have to admit it doesn’t quite have the same intimidating factor that would be useful when trying to convince a crude, mob-connected cowboy to take his shit-kickin’ feet off the blackjack table and put his boots back on.

• Jacket: Yellow-and-tan micro-houndstooth single-breasted 2-button jacket with fish-mouth lapels, welted breast pocket, straight flapped hip pockets, single-button cuffs, long double vents
• Shirt: Yellow charmeuse silk with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Tie: Yellow grenadine woven silk tie
• Pocket square: Yellow satin silk
• Trousers: Golden-yellow flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband tab, frogmouth front pockets, and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with triple emerald-cut cubic zirconia
• Ace’s shoes and gold watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Light-Blue Glen Check Suit

As it features across three different scenes—hiring Jonathan and David’s tiger act, meeting county commissioner Pat Webb (L.Q. Jones), and confronting Ginger about taking his anti-ulcer medication—this complexly patterned glen plaid suit gets some of the most concentrated screen time on every detail… helped by the fact that we see Ace emerge from behind his office desk, sans jacket and trousers, to put on both before greeting Webb. The glen plaid suiting consists of a blue and white warp and weft, creating an overall light slate-blue finish, with dimension added by red and yellow checks.

There may also be some significance to the fact that he covers his torso in silk that matches the sky-blue bottle of the Mylanta antacid he takes before the meeting… or this could just be me sharing Ace’s paranoia.

• Suit: Blue-and-white glen plaid with coral-red and mustard-yellow windowpane overchecks
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button jacket with fish-mouth lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband tab,
• Shirt: Sky-blue charmeuse silk shirt with point collar, shoulder epaulets, monogrammed breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Tie: Sky-blue satin silk
• Pocket square: Sky-blue satin silk
• Shoes: Sky-blue patent leather squared apron-toe self-strap loafers
• Socks: Cream silk voile
• Watch: White-gold with double-barred blue square dial and integrated white-gold expanding link bracelet

You can read more about Ace’s suit in my BAMF Style post, as well as how it contrasts with Pat Webb’s cowboy gear.

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Azure Mini-Checked Peak-Lapel Jacket

Ace blends bright blues and yellows while inspecting the French showgirls weighing in for the Femme Fatale show he imported from Paris. He appears to be wearing the same shirt, tie, trousers, and pocket square as he did with the mustard jacket when ejecting the rude cowboy, but the mustard jacket has been swapped for another micro-houndstooth coat in a rich azure. (Different ring, too!)

• Jacket: Azure-blue micro-houndstooth and muted red overcheck single-breasted jacket with wide peak lapels, single brown button, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Yellow charmeuse silk with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Tie: Yellow grenadine woven silk tie
• Pocket square: Yellow satin silk
• Trousers: Golden-yellow flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband tab, frogmouth front pockets, and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: Yellow leather loafers
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with citrine emerald-cut stone, half-bezel set in geometric shank
• Ace’s watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Brown Glen Check Suit

As Ace looks over his innovative sports book inside the Tangiers during the same montage, he’s dressed surprisingly traditionally (and, of course, tastefully) in a brown-forward glen plaid trousers, white shirt, and matching red tie and pocket square. Unfortunately, this tasteful ensemble only appears for this single, seconds-long vignette, but is also prominently featured in promotional photography.

• Suit: Brown, cream, black, burgundy, and purple glen plaid
  • Jacket: Single-button jacket with wide peak lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front beltless trousers with extended waistband tab and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Cream charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Tie: Crimson-red satin silk
• Pocket square: Crimson-red satin silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with citrine emerald-cut stone, half-bezel set in geometric shank
• Ace’s shoes and gold watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Black Tuxedo

Congratulations, Ace! Our hero dresses in black tie to accent a certification of appreciation from the Charitable Foundations of Greater Las Vegas (dated August 6, 1972, though it feels like we’re much later in the timeline than this!), but he isn’t so charitable when a young executive from the casino goes a little too far complimenting Ginger: “Nice kid, bright boy… what balls on this fuckin’ kid! The next day I fired him.”

• Suit: Black silk dinner suit
  • Jacket: Single-button dinner jacket with satin-faced peak lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, three silk-covered cuff-buttons, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front formal trousers with beltless waistband, satin side-seam galon, and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: White cotton evening shirt with point collar, pleated front,
  • Studs: Square gold-toned onyx-and-crystal
  • Cuff links: Gold
• Tie: Black satin silk oversized butterfly/thistle-shaped self-tying bow tie
• Shoes: Black leather cap-toe oxfords
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut diamond
• Ace’s gold watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Mint-Green Shirt

While Ace is getting awards, Nicky is getting banned… but that’s what extortion, murder, and robbery gets you, I guess! To meet Nicky sixty miles outside of Vegas at the dreary Idle Spurs restaurant, Ace goes as “incognito” as we’ve seen him—foregoing his usual sport jackets or suits and just wearing his shirt-sleeves. (Presumably, he is wearing pants… but we know it wouldn’t be the first time he foregoes those as well!)

• Shirt: Mint-green charmeuse silk with point collar, shoulder epaulets, plain front, monogrammed breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut diamond
• Watch: Nobila gold-plated watch with round white dial (with gold Roman numerals and date complication) on gold panther-style band (with fold-over clasp)
• Ace’s trousers and shoes can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Green Herringbone Silk Suit… Again

Back at the Tangiers, Ace is briefly seen repeating one of his suits when he pairs the green herringbone silk suit (from the immediate post-credits scene) during a vignette where a crooning Jerry Vale is interrupted by Ace’s narration about his new title as the casino’s food-and-beverage chairman.

• Suit: Green herringbone silk
  • Jacket: Single-breasted jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, and single-button cuffs
  • Trousers: Beltless flat-front trousers with flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Beige charmeuse silk with point collar and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Beige satin silk
• Pocket square: Beige satin silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with green emerald stone
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat yellow-gold quartz watch with black squared dial (with gold dot hour markers) on polished, textured gold-link bracelet with fold-over clasp
• Ace’s dark shoes can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Beige with Blue(berry)-and-Yellow Check Jacket

Ace is fed up! Not only is Don Ward committing fireable offenses as slot machine manager, but the muffins produced in the Tangiers’ kitchen have wildly differing amounts of blueberries in them. Time to do something about it.

• Jacket: Beige with blue-and-yellow check wool single-breasted 2-button sport jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, straight jetted hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Sky-blue charmeuse silk with sporty open-neck collar, plain front, breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and single-button mitred cuffs
• Pocket square: Sky-blue satin silk
• Trousers: Golden-yellow flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband tab, frogmouth front pockets, and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: Yellow leather loafers
• Socks: Cream silk voile
• Ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with cubic zirconia in geometric shank
• Watch: Yellow-gold with gold squared dial on gold link bracelet

You can read more about this style and scene in my BAMF Style post. There are production stills of De Niro wearing what appears to be this same jacket but with a cream shirt and blue-and-gold cross-hatched tie while talking to Don Rickles, likely from a deleted scene.

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Navy Printed Silk Dressing Gown

Ace’s most frequently worn loungewear is a dark-blue silk dressing gown with the same small repeating animal-shape print that would be on the pink robe which Nicky criticizes during an argument. He initially wears this blue silk robe over his pajamas during morning feeds and late-night meetings, but then he pulls it on over the midnight-hued shirt and trousers he’d worn with his red silk jacket when “greeting” Ginger after her all-nighter.

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Ivory Western Suit

After Ginger’s shady request for $25,000, Ace follows her—and the money—to the diner where she meets her old boyfriend, the sleazy pimp Lester Diamond (James Woods). Ace dresses for dominance in his ivory Western-informed suit over a blood-red silk shirt and tie combination, unintentionally echoing Lester’s own clothing as the pimp sits before him in a white denim leisure suit with green-and-scarlet Gucci-striped accents.

• Suit: Ivory lightweight cloth
  • Jacket: Single-breasted jacket with notch lapels, two silver-toned blazer-style buttons, pointed Western yokes, hip pockets (with pointed single-button flaps), three-button cuffs, and center-pleated half-belted back with single vent
  • Trousers: Flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband tab and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Crimson-red charmeuse silk with point collar and tab cuffs
• Tie: Crimson-red satin silk
• Shoes: White leather
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut ruby stone
• Watch: Yellow-gold with red square dial (with gold non-numeric hour indices) on gold panther-style link bracelet

You can read more about this suit and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Dark-Blue Windowpane Suit

With the Tangiers’ reputation up for debate as Philip Green’s past connections come to light, Ace handles public relations in his office by taking an interview that will come back to bite him in the ass when he’s forced to admit that there are times when he’s the boss.

• Jacket: Navy-blue with muted blue windowpane silk single-breasted suit jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, and single-button flared cuffs
• Shirt: Sky-blue charmeuse silk with long point collar, plain front, and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Sky-blue satin silk
• Pocket square: Sky-blue satin silk
• Cuff links: 14-carat white gold with half-bezel set, emerald-cut aquamarine stones
• Ace’s trousers and shoes aren’t visible during the scene, nor we see enough of his white-gold wristwatch to identify details.

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Pink Printed Silk Dressing Gown

“I lost control? Look at you! You’re fucking walking around like John Barrymore! A fuckin’ pink robe and a fuckin’ cigarette holder?” Nicky Santoro can’t believe the slick gambler he’s known since their shared childhood in the streets of Chicago is now parading around his country club home in a pink silk robe with a cigarette holder, but one of you gets brutally beaten to death in a Midwest cornfield while the other survives into old age while still picking winners, so… advantage Ace and his pink robe.

• Dressing gown: Pink patterned silk with wide shawl collar, breast pocket, hip pockets, wide-cuffed sleeves, and waist sash
• Pajamas: Light-pink self-striped satin silk two-piece pajama set with button-up top and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Slippers: Black velvet Neiman Marcus slippers with gold-beaded vamp embellishment and hard leather soles
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with blue synthetic emerald-cut stone
• Watch: White-gold with double-barred blue square dial and integrated white-gold expanding link bracelet

You can read more about this dressing gown in my BAMF Style post.

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Pink Golf Sweater

Even with all the colorful tailoring and ties that define Ace Rothstein’s style, costume designer Rita Ryack cited Ace’s all-pink golf sweater outfit to be among her favorites during a 2002 interview with Megan Turner for the New York Post. While it may have been comfortable enough when the day started, Ace probably started through that sweater when his interview with the gaming control board was interrupted by the feds landing on his lawn during their surveillance of Nicky on the golf course.

• Shirt: Pink and white double-striped shirt with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Sweater: Pink bouclé-woven lightweight wool V-neck golf sweater
• Trousers: Pale-pink flat-front trousers with fitted waistband, full-top frogmouth front pockets, and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: Mauve-pink leather Johnston & Murphy loafers
• Socks: Pink silk socks
• Sunglasses: Tortoise plastic-framed “SunCloud” sporty aviator sunglasses
• Pinky ring: 14-carat white-gold with radiant-cut cubic zirconia
• Ace’s silver-toned watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

You can read more about this style and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Tan Blazer

After years of changing his job title and navigating the cowboy boots of bitter local politicians on his neck, Ace is finally given his opportunity to receive a gaming license… but the senator he comped so many times has caved to local pressure and denies his application without even giving him a chance to speak on it—despite Ace opting for grounded neutral tones (and no pinky ring!) to look more like a smart businessman than a mob-connected bookie.

(Though the actual hearings began in January 1976, Casino advances this scene to “1980” per an on-screen title.)

• Jacket: Tan camelhair single-breasted blazer with fish-mouth lapels, 2 gold-toned buttons, welted breast pocket, patch hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Pale-yellow Swiss cotton with point collar, front placket, monogrammed breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Dark-brown satin silk
• Pocket square: Dark-brown satin silk
• Trousers: Chocolate-brown flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband, frogmouth front pockets, and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: Brown leather self-strap moc-toe loafers
• Socks: Dark-brown socks
• Watch: Yellow-gold with gold squared dial on gold link bracelet
• Sunglasses: Ultra Goliath II tortoise acetate-framed oversized sunglasses with amber gradient-tinted lenses
• Ace doesn’t wear a pinky ring.

You can read more about this style and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Blue Shiny TV Suit

Spurned by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Ace takes his grievances public on his new public-access show Aces High!, filmed from the Tangiers within his capacity as public-relations director. He takes this opportunity to dress even flashier, having suits made in his usual patterns but with a degree of sparkle woven into the cloth! When he also welcomes Frankie Avalon as a guest for the inaugural episode, he wears a shimmering blue suit.

• Suit: Navy-blue sparkling birdseye
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button jacket with fish-mouth lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, 3-button cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Cream charmeuse silk with point collar, breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Tie: Cream satin silk
• Pocket square: Cream satin silk
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with blue synthetic emerald-cut stone
• Watch: White-gold with double-barred blue square dial and integrated white-gold expanding link bracelet
• Ace’s trousers and shoes can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Charcoal Shiny TV Suit

Another day, another episode of Aces High!, another sparkly suit… another diatribe about local politicians like Pat Webb that’s a little too loud for Ace’s mob friends’ liking.

• Jacket: Charcoal sparkly muted-stripe single-breasted jacket with fish-mouth lapels, welted breast pocket, and single-button cuffs
• Shirt: Lavender charmeuse silk with point collar, plain front, and linked single cuffs
• Tie: Purple shantung silk
• Pocket square: Black satin silk
• Pinky ring: White-gold with bypass multi-diamond and black onyx triangular setting
• Watch: White-gold with double-barred blue square dial and integrated white-gold expanding link bracelet
• Ace’s trousers and shoes can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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The Juggler’s Jacket

It’s only from Philip Green’s horrified POV that we see Ace juggling on his new TV show, dressed in a beige checked sport jacket, solid beige slacks, white loafers, and a matching red silk shirt, tie, and pocket square.

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Cream Flecked Desert Jacket

When Nicky gets wind that Ace has been criticizing the heat brought on by his blatant criminal activity, he summons his old pal to a stormy confrontation in the desert. Ace dresses to reflect the sandy surroundings, sporting a cream flecked jacket with his subdued gray shirt and black trousers, as well as a matte black-framed set of the appropriately named Ultra Goliath II oversized sunglasses (reportedly chosen by De Niro himself) that reflect Nicky’s ’77 Monte Carlo as it speeds through the desert toward him.

• Jacket: Cream flecked silk single-breasted 2-button jacket with fish-mouth lapels, patch breast and hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Gray charmeuse silk shirt with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Trousers: Black silk darted-front trousers with beltless extended waistband, frogmouth front pockets, and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: Black leather high-vamp plain-toe loafers
• Socks: Black silk voile
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut cubic zirconia
• Watch: White-gold with double-barred blue square dial and integrated white-gold expanding link bracelet
• Sunglasses: Ultra Goliath II matte black-framed oversized sunglasses

You can read more about this style and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Lime-Green Sport Jacket

Ace was no stranger to wearing green before, but he’s fully embracing a wider spectrum of the color for the early ’80s, wearing an almost neon-hued lime-green jacket when leading his posse into a nightclub to the tune of Devo’s “Whip It”.

• Jacket: Bright lime-green slubby raw silk single-button jacket with wide peak lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Beige charmeuse silk with point collar
• Tie: Beige satin silk
• Trousers: Beige flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: White leather loafers
• Pocket square: Beige satin silk
• Ace’s pinky ring and watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Brown Glen Plaid Jacket #2

Ace gets the unwelcome call in the middle of the night that Nicky, technically banned from entering any Las Vegas casino, is on some cocktail of substances and abusing the Tangiers’ blackjack dealers. He quickly (but not carelessly) dresses in a brown-forward glen plaid peak-lapel sports coat which differs from the suit jacket featured in an earlier vignette, then enters the casino to confront Nicky, approve his emergency marker for $10,000, and then storm out to leave poor Billy Sherbert suffering Nicky’s wrath.

• Jacket: Brown, tan, and burgundy muted glen plaid silk single-button jacket with wide peak lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Gray charmeuse silk shirt with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Pocket square: Gray satin silk
• Trousers: Chocolate-brown flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband, frogmouth front pockets, and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Watch: Bueche Girod 18-carat yellow-gold quartz watch with black squared dial (with gold dot hour markers) on polished, textured gold-link bracelet with fold-over clasp
• Ace’s shoes can’t be seen clearly enough to identify. He doesn’t wear a pinky ring.

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Mint-Green Silk Notch-Lapel Sport Jacket

More green for Ace, this time a paler mint-toned slubby silk jacket worn with all-black—perhaps mourning the death of his failed marriage when accompanying Ginger to a divorce meeting with his lawyer, future Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman (playing himself!)

• Jacket: Mint-green slubby raw silk single-breasted sport jacket with welted breast pocket, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Black charmeuse silk with point collar and plain front
• Trousers: Flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband
• Pocket square: Black satin silk
• Ace’s shoes, pinky ring, and watch can’t be seen clearly enough to identify.

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Mint-Green Flecked Silk Peak-Lapel Blazer

“Two loud light-green jackets is surely enough for one man, right?” you ask… only to look up and see Ace Rothstein in TV makeup, making his way toward you through a maze of showgirls while sporting yet another mint-green jacket—this one detailed with a mid-century atomic fleck, blazer-style metal buttons, and wide peak lapels—paired with a coordinated mint-green shirt and tie but with contrasting trousers and pocket square… though the fact that he matched his pocket square to his trouser color and not his shirt and tie as usual should have told us all that something was awry! (FYI: the shirt is the same one he wore when talking black books and sandwiches with Nicky at the Idle Spurs several scenes earlier!)

• Jacket: Mint-green streak-flecked silk single-breasted blazer with wide peak lapels, two silver-toned buttons, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single silver-toned vestigial cuff-buttons, and long double vents
• Shirt: Mint-green charmeuse silk with point collar, shoulder epaulets, plain front, monogrammed breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and tab cuffs
• Tie: Mint-green grenadine silk
• Pocket square: Black satin silk
• Trousers: Black flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: Black leather apron-toe loafers
• Socks: Black socks
• Pinky ring: White-gold with bypass multi-diamond and black onyx triangular setting
• Watch: White-gold with double-barred blue square dial and integrated white-gold expanding link bracelet

You can read more about this style and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Blue-and-Green Plaid Silk Suit

Ace picks Ginger up from the airport after she fled with their daughter and Lester to SoCal, then takes his wife out to dinner to confront her about the mess. Under his dark overcoat, he wears a chaotically colorful plaid suit, perhaps significantly paired with the same blood-red shirt and tie combo he’d sported with his ivory Western suit when also confronting Lester in the Vegas diner years earlier.

• Suit: Navy-and-green tartan plaid silk with crimson-red overcheck
  • Jacket: Single-breasted 2-button jacket with fish-mouth lapels, welted breast pocket, slanted flapped hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
  • Trousers: Flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband tab and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shirt: Crimson-red charmeuse silk with point collar and tab cuffs
• Tie: Crimson-red satin silk
• Shoes: Black leather apron-toe loafers
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut ruby stone
• Watch: Yellow-gold with red square dial (with gold non-numeric hour indices) on gold panther-style link bracelet
• Overcoat: Black wool single-breasted 3-button overcoat with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, hip pockets, and single vent

You can read more about this style and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Red, Blue, and Green-on-White Mini-Gun Check Jacket

Ace shows he’s at the cutting edge of both style and technology, when—dressed in another colorfully checked sports coat—he presents Ginger with a beeper so that he can contact her at any time.

• Jacket: Red, blue, and green-on-white mini-gun club check houndstooth single-breasted 2-button sport jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, patch hip pockets, single-button cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Blue charmeuse silk shirt with white buttons up plain front
• Trousers: Ivory flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband and frogmouth front pockets
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with emerald-cut ruby stone
• Watch: Yellow-gold with flush blue square dial on integrated smooth gold band
• Ace’s shoes never appear on screen.

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Terra-Cotta Jacket

In the 2002 New York Post interview where costume designer Rita Ryack mentioned the pink golf sweater as one of her favorites from Ace’s wardrobe, she also described “the ‘car seat costume’—a terra-cotta silk jacket, gold shirt and tie teamed with chocolate-brown pants.” Also a favorite costume of mine, this burnt-orange ensemble appears as Ace questions Ginger about her whereabouts, only to learn the potentially deadly truth of her affair with Nicky Santoro.

• Jacket: Burnt-orange silk single-breasted 2-button jacket with fish-mouth lapels, patch breast and hip pockets, single-button flared cuffs, and long double vents
• Shirt: Orange charmeuse silk with point collar
• Tie: Orange satin silk
• Pocket square: Orange satin silk
• Trousers: Chocolate-brown flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband, frogmouth front pockets, and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: Brown leather self-strap moc-toe loafers
• Socks: Dark-brown socks
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with citrine emerald-cut stone, half-bezel set in geometric shank
• Watch: Yellow-gold with gold squared dial on gold link bracelet

You can read more about this style and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Red Raw Silk Jacket

One of the most iconic of Ace’s looks is the bright red silk jacket over dark matching shirt, tie, and trousers that he wears for the extended sequence when Ginger ties up their daughter so she can enjoy a night out drinking alone in Nicky’s restaurant. Costume designer Rita Ryack has said she intentionally planned Ace’s already unconventional wardrobe to grow increasingly chaotic to echo the growing chaos in his life, so this bold outfit perfectly suits the moment.

• Jacket: Red raw silk single-breasted 2-button sport jacket with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, straight flapped hip pockets, 3-button cuffs, and single vent
• Shirt: Black charmeuse silk with point collar, plain front, and tab cuffs
• Tie: Black satin silk
• Pocket square: Black satin silk with red-piped edge trim
• Trousers: Black silk darted-front trousers with beltless extended waistband, frogmouth front pockets, and flared plain-hemmed bottoms
• Shoes: Black leather apron-toe loafers
• Socks: Black silk voile
• Overcoat: Black wool single-breasted 3-button overcoat with notch lapels, welted breast pocket, hip pockets, and single vent
• Pinky ring: 14-carat white-gold with blue synthetic emerald-cut stone in geometric polished shank
• Watch: White-gold with double-barred blue square dial and integrated white-gold expanding link bracelet

You can read more about this style and scene in my BAMF Style post.

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Silver Polka-Dot Robe

Ace’s robes are getting less fussy by the early 1980s, when he’s getting visits from the feds alerting him to Nicky and Ginger’s affair. Of course, this is old news to him, but he’s still depressed as hell. This is a simpler robe than his trio of dressing gowns, made from a thin single layer of gray silk that’s covered with a large black polka-dot print, coordinating with the black shirt he’s wearing with it.

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Blue Striped Shirt with Contrasting Yellow Accents

More than a decade after the mob hits and overdoses that took out most of his old friends and cohorts, Ace survives into the present day—back to his roots as an unmatched sports better. Even thirty years later in the DraftKings era, I’d feel much more comfortable trusting my money to a gray-haired guy with custom shirts, a pinky ring, and the scars from an old car bombing.

• Shirt: Light-blue two-toned twill with yellow-bordered blue stripe, with yellow triangular-dipped point collar, front placket, monogrammed breast pocket (with pointed yoke), and yellow triangular-dipped single-button cuffs
• Trousers: Golden-yellow flat-front trousers with beltless extended waistband tab, frogmouth front pockets, and plain-hemmed bottoms
• Pinky ring: 14-carat yellow-gold with blue sapphire flanked by smaller diamonds
• Watch: Piaget Polo 18-carat yellow-gold gadroon-detailed watch with fully integrated 38mm case, round dial, and bracelet (with triple-folding clasp)
• Sunglasses: Ultra Goliath II tortoise acetate-framed oversized sunglasses with amber gradient-tinted lenses
• Ace’s shoes never appear on screen.

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Do Yourself a Favor and…

Check out the movie, as well as Nicholas Pileggi’s nonfiction volume Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas that he published while researching with Scorsese.

I’m also hardly the first to try to catalog all of Ace’s style. Artist Ibraheem Youssef illustrated this stunning poster that follows the 45 suits and sport jackets that De Niro wears, available for sale on his site.