Blog Post #3 - Detective Uniforms

When I, and many other people picture a detective in their mind, they all picture the same thing, a person in a suit, with either a black or brown coat, with a black fedora and a magnifying glass. This stereotype of how detectives look has been established for many decades, stemming from many decades of different media; Literature, TV shows, Comics, and Film. But is this really accurate to real-life detectives?

The Detective Archetype, from: wildgratitude.com


The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) states that the appropriate articles of clothing for Detectives while on the job is "clothing most applicable to their job duties for the day", specifying a uniform, bureau attire, or casual clothing.

 Though when conducting department business, business attire must be worn. For men, business attire is described as slacks, a dress shirt, a tie, and jacket, along with a suit jacket. For females, business attire is "a dress, dress suit, skirt and blouse, pantsuit, or blouse and pants appropriate to a businesslike appearance". 

An order of Detective uniforms, from: https://pars.lasd.org/Viewer/Manuals/16836/Content/16854


ZipRecruiter tells us that Police Detectives do not have a specific uniform, though they do have a dress code. They then proceed to say that this dress code tends to consist of casual business outfits, typically including slacks and jackets, depending on the season. They also say that concealed firearms are a necessity to the job. 

A photo of Providence Detective Angelo A'Vant, from bostonglobe.com

This insight into the true clothing habits of detectives will help me to costume my characters Ed and Fern, to make them more accurate to the true clothing style of detectives. This will help me to accurately portray the state of these characters, and even signal what they are feeling about the situation. Whether in a certain scene, it has a formal tone, a casual tone, or even in-between. My current idea is to have them in casual clothing to start, and then have them transition into more formal clothes as they start to investigate.

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