2025 has been a very, very good year for movies. Not just in the big, awards season sense, but in the way films have crept slowly back into everyday conversations – the kind you argue about in your group chat, screenshot on Letterboxd, or reference looong after the credits roll. And somewhere along the way, menswear got dragged into it all. Not because anyone was trying to sell clothes or anything, but because characters needed to get dressed like real people again.
That’s where the idea of “accidental menswear” comes through. These aren’t fashion films, they’re just movies where coats are worn because it’s cold, and straight-cut jeans fit the vibe, and trainers are necessary and nice and comfy. The result is clothes that feel believable, repeatable, and weirdly influential. So here’s a checklist of the 2025 films that ended up in our moodboards without even trying.
F1
Warner Bros. Pictures
Let’s start with the obvious one here. On paper, F1 is a super intense film about cars going vroom. In practice, it became a case study in how menswear can borrow from sport without actually looking like sportswear.
The paddock fits did most of the work: the sweaters, the suede jackets, the denim shirts, the excellent sunglasses. The moments that stuck most weren’t the race day hero shots (those were sick, though), but the fashion-y bits in between.
Happy Gilmore 2
Netflix
Nobody expected Happy Gilmore 2 to end up in menswear conversations, which is exactly why it did. Golfcore, normcore, baggy polos, oversized trousers, giant-ass shorts, beat-up sneakers – it leaned fully into a kind of intentional chaos that felt very now.
As GQ‘s Murray Clark puts it, “[Adam Sandler] wears everything at once, he looks insane and still, by sheer token of authenticity, manages to look so cool.” Messy, unserious, and weirdly persuasive.
Marty Supreme
James Devaney