The Tony Soprano style guide - Cogars, white robes and managing criminal businessed are all extras

Few series in television history have had an impact as great as The Sopranos. If nowadays we're flooded with crime dramas from all parts the world, from the Brits of Gangs of London to the Australians of Animal Kingdom and the yakuza of Tokyo Vice, the first TV show to teach the world that there could be a whole world hidden behind the most trite gangster stereotypes was The Sopranos. In the series, Italian-American culture and its recurrences, its dialects, its social customs, have perhaps more relevance than the progression of the story - and the stories themselves are more about the lives of the characters than the criminal achievements of the Soprano family. Among these characters, Tony Soprano is the absolute giant: his imposing figure, his voice, his transitions from total calm to ferocity - every minute that James Gandolfini is playing the New Jersey mafia boss contributes to making him more iconic.

To be fair, the costumes have also contributed to this: Tony Soprano's style is still stuck somewhere between the 1980s and 1990s, the colours are dark yet the patterns are fun, and the cuts of the clothes are as vast and imposing just like the man wearing them; the choice of jewellery is conspicuous, traditional and heavy; and there's also a whole trove of dressing gowns, silk ties, loafers, tracksuits. A style that many have tried to imitate and that we have deconstructed into five macro-areas. Here's how to dress like Tony Soprano.

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Just like any Italian-American man, Tony never foregoes the most classic underwear piece of them all: the white tank top. It's clear that we're not talking about the white tank top of the athletic influencers flooding our Instagram feeds; Tony Soprano doesn't have a sculpted physique to show off, nor would he probably want to attract the attention of strangers online. The tank top you see in The Sopranos is old-fashioned, worn without vanity nor irony, the kind our grandparents wouldn't even take off underneath the hot August sun. Maybe that's why it was only partially visible.