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Casino style on film gives men two practical references: Bond’s restrained black dinner suit in Casino Royale and Ace Rothstein’s coordinated 1970s colour in Casino.
This guide shows what each wardrobe does and how to wear the ideas today, such as:
The documented details of the Casino Royale dinner suit
Peaked or shawl lapels, black or midnight blue
A smart casual outfit with the same clean shape
Tonal colour and wide lapels from Casino
Dressing for a casino-themed party
and many more!
Venue dress codes come first, so treat these film references as inspiration rather than rules.
Key Points
01Daniel Craig’s main dinner suit in Casino Royale is black wool by Brioni, with one button and peaked lapels faced in ribbed silk.
02Ace Rothstein’s wardrobe was researched from the real Frank Rosenthal’s own clothes and tailors.
03Tonal dressing in one colour looks deliberate; mismatched colours rarely do.
04Fit, not the label, is what makes either look work.
Two film wardrobes still shape how men picture casino style: James Bond’s dinner suit in Casino Royale (2006) and Ace Rothstein’s colourful 1970s tailoring in Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995).
One is restrained and formal, the other bold and coordinated, and both offer ideas you can wear today without dressing in costume.
The same film also gave Sharon Stone’s Ginger McKenna in Casino some of its most remembered outfits; this guide is written for men, so her wardrobe appears only briefly below.
If you need to know what a particular casino actually expects, start with our guide to casino dress codes, because venue rules come before any film reference.
James Bond: the black dinner suit in Casino Royale
In Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s main dinner suit is black wool by Brioni, according to Matt Spaiser’s review of the film’s wardrobe on The Suits of James Bond.
The single-breasted jacket fastens with one button and has peaked lapels faced in ribbed ottoman silk, in a trimmer cut than the midnight blue dinner suits Pierce Brosnan usually wore as Bond.
Spaiser notes that costume designer Lindy Hemming took particular care over the dinner jacket, because so much of the film takes place around a poker table.
Nothing on the jacket is decorative for its own sake, which is why it remains a useful model for black tie.
What to borrow from it
Peaked lapels give a dinner jacket a sharper outline, while a shawl collar looks softer; both are correct for black tie.
Black is the classic colour, and midnight blue is a long-established alternative that many people say looks richer under artificial light.
Fit matters more than any detail: shoulders that sit cleanly, a jacket that fastens without pulling and roughly a quarter to half an inch (about 0.5 to 1.5 cm) of shirt cuff showing at the sleeve.
Simple cufflinks and studs in silver, onyx or mother-of-pearl finish the shirt without competing with the jacket.
Our black tie dress code guide covers the full outfit.
A smart casual version
Outside black tie, you can borrow the same clean shape with a single-breasted navy or charcoal blazer that has a defined waist and a structured shoulder.
Wear: navy single-breasted blazer, white poplin shirt with no tie, charcoal straight-leg wool trousers and black leather loafers.
The restraint is the point, so keep the colours few and the accessories simple.
Ginger McKenna: a brief note on Casino’s women’s wardrobe
Sharon Stone’s character wears glamorous 1970s eveningwear throughout Casino, with metallics, sequins and statement jewellery.
Stories about the film’s costume budget vary: an often-repeated claim that the clothing cost more than a million dollars has been disputed by costume designer Rita Ryack, as Wikipedia’s article on the film notes.
The useful lesson for men is commitment: choose one strong idea per outfit and let it lead, rather than adding several competing details.
Ace Rothstein: coordinated colour in Casino
Robert De Niro’s Ace Rothstein is based on the real casino executive Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, and his wardrobe is one of the most discussed in film.
BAMF Style’s 2025 lookbook of the character credits costume designers Rita Ryack and John A. Dunn, who researched Rosenthal’s own clothes, including trips into his closet, and worked with his tailors.
The same source says the shirts were made by Anto Beverly Hills using cloths and cuts Rosenthal favoured in the 1970s and 1980s.
De Niro wears dozens of outfits in the film, most of them suits and sports jackets, in colours such as salmon pink, mint green, terracotta and lime green, often with a shirt and tie in matching shades.
Gold Bueche Girod watches appear often, according to the same lookbook.
The wardrobe works because every outfit is coordinated with total commitment.
The styling logic you can borrow
Tonal dressing in one pale colour looks deliberate: for example, a sage jacket with sage trousers and an ivory shirt.
Wide lapels are an easy 1970s reference, and a double-breasted jacket with a broad lapel in a pale tone points to the film without copying it.
A shirt with a white collar on a coloured body suits a suit or a blazer and adds a period feel.
Treat accessories as a set: a watch, a ring and a tie that share one colour or metal look coherent without matching exactly.
Wear: pale grey double-breasted suit with wide peaked lapels, pale blue shirt, a tie in a slightly deeper blue, brown suede loafers and a gold-tone watch.
Dressing for a casino-themed party
Casino-themed parties give you a reason to try these looks for one evening, and each film offers a clear brief.
For a Bond look, choose a black or midnight blue dinner suit, a white dress shirt and a black bow tie.
For an Ace Rothstein look, choose a pale or bright suit with a tonal shirt and tie, wide lapels and one gold-tone accessory.
Ask the host how formal the evening is meant to be, and check whether the invitation names a dress code, before you hire or buy anything.
Our men’s dress codes guide explains what black tie, cocktail and smart casual usually mean.
The bottom line
Casino style on film was never really about the game.
Bond shows how far a simple, well-fitted dinner suit can go, and Ace Rothstein shows how coordinated colour can look deliberate rather than loud.
Take the idea that suits you, adjust it to the occasion, and let the tailoring do most of the work.
Sources
Matt Spaiser, The Suits of James Bond, Bond Wardrobe Review 21: Casino Royale (2006) (29 April 2024), for the Brioni dinner suit and Lindy Hemming’s approach.
BAMF Style, Casino: Robert De Niro’s lookbook as Ace Rothstein (14 November 2025), for the costume designers, shirts, colours and watches.
Wikipedia, Casino (1995 film) (accessed 7 October 2026), for Rita Ryack and the disputed costume budget.
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