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FAST FIVE (2011)
Fast Five is when the Fast & Furious franchise realized that “people driving cars fast” could be adapted to other genres, and the result is the series’ best, a heist movie that pulls the entire team together.
Not coincidentally, it also features Dom’s two best looks ever. Both of them are familiar outfits, but at this point so tied to Dom’s identity that they’re impossible to imagine on anyone else in the crew. First is Dom’s “Let’s burn some money!” outfit, which is also his most consistent “at work” uniform: black tank top, black pants, black boots. He wears a version of this ensemble earlier while pulling off the train heist (plus black driving gloves), and the reinforced message is this: Dom’s not hiding, and if he wants to set $10 million ablaze to prove a point, he will.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is Dom lighter, looser, and in his element at a Brazilian street race, one that most of the family purposefully attends to draw out intermittent adversary Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson). This lighter-colored outfit—white tank top, white jeans, and sand-colored Timbs—is the kind of thing Dom wears on his off day, and it signals a shit-eating-grin kind of ease. “This is Brazil!” he yells, claiming solidarity with drivers all around the world (and doing a little bit of retconning regarding the Torettos’ ethnic identity). This is the beginning of a (sleeveless) new era.
FAST & FURIOUS 6 (2013)
Fast & Furious 6 pulls off the franchise’s first character resuscitation with the return of Rodriguez’s Letty, who died (“died”) two films back. As Letty struggles to regain her memory, Fast & Furious 6 communicates her centrality to this narrative by dressing her like Dom: a color palette of mostly black, white, and gray double-layered tank tops, along with an array of leather jackets. When Fast & Furious 6 ends with the team pardoned by the U.S. government and living again at the Toretto family home—Letty’s outfit cements her Toretto status: Bared arms and a Corona are practically the family crest.
FURIOUS 7 (2015)
James Wan replaced Justin Lin in the director’s seat for Furious 7, while Paul Walker’s death near the end of the film’s production cast a tragic shadow. Given all that, fashion takes a bit of a backseat in Furious 7, aside from two moments: one scene features Johnson’s tank top-clad Hobbs going full The Rock as he flexes out of his arm cast, while a flashback to Dom and Letty’s wedding in the Dominican Republic reveals that Dom got married in a tank top. Nothing could be more right for Dom than giving his “This is Brazil!” outfit a soft spin by also wearing it to his wedding.
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