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The 50 Most
Influential Films
Men's Vogue presents the movies that had the greatest impact on men's style.
By Ben Popper, Barrett Baffert, Wyatt Jansen, Nicholas Mosquera, and Emily Tan. Photographs from the Everett Collection

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February 2008

It Happened One Night
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It Happened One Night (1934)

Sometimes the best fashion statement is not trying to make one at all. In It Happened One Night, Clark Gable removed his shirt and, to the shock of respectably dressed gents across the nation, was not wearing an undershirt. Gable said he chose not to, because removing it on-screen would have looked awkward. The impact was immediate. Following the film, the men's undershirt industry almost went bankrupt, so precipitous was the decline in sales.

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