He used to be the sexiest man alive! Nick Nolte, 71, still turns heads in eye-catching pink trousers

The moniker of The World's Sexiest Man is a hard one to live up to.
But Nick Nolte showed some of the old magic is still there after he made a particularly daring fashion choice in Beverly Hills on Thursday.
The 71-year-old almost achieved the impossible takes of looking good in a pink pair of trousers as he sauntered down the street during an outing to the well-heeled area.

In the pink: Nick Nolte almost pulled off this preposterous fashion ensemble in Beverly Hills on Thursday

But as fashionistas love to say, less is more, and the 48 Hours favourite was guilty of overreaching in the style stakes by twinning the eye-catching bottoms with a brown jacket and fedora hat.
The explosion of colour turned what should have been a cheeky pensioner's fashion statement into a garish mess.

 

In many ways he was guilty of making the same mistakes as his classic North Dallas Forty character Phil Elliot, an aging American footballl player who plays on past his best through the heavy use of painkillers.
Still, there were definitely shades of the fashion forward veteran's old magic as he marched along the pavement, particularly when he nonchalantly leaned on a wooden barrier while getting his bearings.

Time for a sit down: At 71 Nick finds strolling around more of a challenge than he used to in his younger days

Impossible to ignore: A young lady could not stop staring at the Hulk star after spotting his trousers

The thin pink line: Nick would have carried off his unique choice of bottoms with aplomb if he had not made the rookie mistake of twinning them with a fedora

Nick has been spending much of his spare time in recent months carrying out fathership duties with his four-year-old daughter Sophie.
She has proven to be a fabulous influence on the actor, and he has been seen indulging his inner child on several occasions.
Back in July he was spotted showing his the ambrosial youngster how to play cowboys and Indians in a car park in Malibu.
And in September he clambered behind the wheel of a dodgem car when he took her on a visit to a local fairground.

Old gangster: Perhaps he wore his hat as a nod to his forthcoming appearance in crime film Gangster Squad