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How can the fashion board be missing the point of the card game? It gives everyone a chance to dress up, sashay around fancy rooms in eveningwear and comment on each other's clothing ("I see you've changed your shirt") while still being essentially a manly and Coltrane-esque tooth and claw duel to the death (poker, that is, not those other frou frou games).

Bond may look good running around a volcano in a dinner jacket, but who's going to notice the cufflinks and the stylish narrowness of his lapels? Some henchman getting thrown off a catwalk? What do they know, with their jumpsuits? For proper appreciations you have to be sitting down across from your nemesis, preferably with an overmixed drink at your elbow.

The only other adversarial situation that allows for such considered judgment of clothes is a long deposition, which I understand will feature in the next Bond movie, "Modicum Of Insurance Defense."