Glad is the man in comfy pants

  
  Same ample cut, 
  same public signage,
  same housing estate,
  found in de Sica,

  Same virile cut,
  same public signage,
  same urban semaphore,
  found in Visconti,

  Stride in Rossellini.

               

We dined in the hotel courtyard under 

the plane trees. A small party .. very 

quiet, well-dressed .. arrived. One, 

of striking beauty, was dressed superb-

ly in a fawn-coloured suit of marvelous 

cut. Totally simple. It made everything 

you see in a Bond Street shop-window 

look like glittering vulgar trash.

 

Vittorio de Sica
Ladri di biciclette
1948

Luchino Visconti
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
1960

Roberto Rossellini
Viaggio in Italia
1954

Sir Alec Guinness
My Name Escapes Me
  The Diary of a
  Retiring Actor
op. cit.