Stephen Amell To Wear Season 1 Arrow Suit This Year

Appearing on a Facebook Live video this evening, Arrow star Stephen Amell revealed to fans that he will wear his costume from season 1 of the show at some point this season.

When he recently posted a shot of himself in the costume, he told fans in the video embedded below, the comments all appreciated his "throwback" post but, Amell said, "That was last week."

"I have to wear the season 1 suit this year for reasons I'm not going to disclose," Amell told fans.

He said that when the wardrobe department called him in for a fitting, he insisted that his body hadn't changed since season 1 and that he would only come in for a fitting if Maya Mani, the costume designer on the series, put him in the suit from the season 1 finale, which he said "fit like a glove."

There are a few possibilities as to why he might be wearing the season 1 suit: first of all, it could be that he was shooting pickups for the hundredth episode, in which a number of characters are reappearing for the first time in quite a while. If, as some expect, the time-travel capabilities of the Legends of Tomorrow crew are to claim responsibility for that, we could easily see the season 1 costume...on season 1 Oliver.

Another possibility is that someone he hasn't seen in five years could be reappearing and, for some reason, he might find it more effective or even necessary to dress in period-appropriate clothing, despite Oliver himself being in the present day. There's also the possibility that the suit could come up in the flashbacks somehow, although it's difficult to parse out exactly how that would work, since there's a pretty full-speed-ahead story taking place in the flashbacks now.

Hello old friend. pic.twitter.com/gYMf9JcX5n

— Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) October 20, 2016

In any event, the tweet above was posted on October 20, which suggests that Amell was likely filming the ninth episode of season 5 -- the one that comes after the crossover -- unless he was, as we earlier posited, picking up a few shots from the crossover. So if you're excited to see Amell suit up in the season 1 "Hood/Vigilante/Arrow" costume again, keep your eyes on the screen as we move deeper into the season, and it should come up somewhere between episodes 8 and 9.

Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.