All the actors who've played James Bond left a stylish footprint on the franchise.
Dressed in the prevailing fashions of their day, they set the benchmark for sharp style in their respective decades.
It's nearly impossible to judge which Bond has the most sartorial swagger.
But we did it anyway.
We decided to rank the most stylish Bonds in a modern context, to see which 007 stands up to fashion's tricky test of time.
Automatically, this 21st-century approach is supremely unfair to George Lazenby's ruffled dress shirt. But here we go ...
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6. Roger Moore
By putting Roger Moore in sixth place, we're by no means saying his Bond had no style. Again, all Bonds are stylish — and products of their time.
Unfortunately, Moore's 1970s style is a bit grandfatherly. Wide, patterned ties and gray, patterned sport coats do not make a very debonair James Bond.
5. Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton's Bond wore all the right clothes, from tuxedos to high-collared suits. But he didn't wear them convincingly.
He looked out of place in every suited-up scene, as if he much preferred combat gear. Dalton treated formal threads like a uniform he couldn't wait to take off.
4. Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan's Bond knew how to rock a suit. Unfortunately, they made him look more like an international mogul than a slightly unhinged British secret agent.
He was a bit more convincing in a tuxedo — but he still looked like an executive at a charity gala, rather than an undercover spy.
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