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Andrew Otis Weiss@thatweissguy.bsky.social |
The fur caveman vest of the late 1960s fascinates me because it became the mainstream media's go-to symbol of hippiedom -- right down to Sonny Bono sporting one to fake countercultural cred -- and yet it was nowhere to be seen on actual hippies.
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Kyle Marquis
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We gotta ask Roy Thomas if he knows the artist who started this, because it's also all over Conan comics (Marvel's Bêlit wears one like Superman wears an S) and the comics they inspired (like the French viking comic Thorgal)
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Tom Dennis
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The only person I can remember seeing this on who wasn't a hippie or monster (maybe a few random characters on Star Trek TOS, as well) is Steve Ditko's original design for Squirrel Girl.
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Michael R Lambert
@mrl53.bsky.social
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Well
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Michael R Lambert
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Funny
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Katie Bayler
@bustronaut.bsky.social
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There was an anti-war movement in New Zealand (where the vest originates) that protested the US secretary of state visiting in 1965, maybe a vector?
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Andrew Otis Weiss
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It also cracks me up because the "I Asked Mom to Give Me a Byrds Hairdo" and the vest look later popped up on Marvel's Bronze Age take on Frankenstein.
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Moss Elixir
@sorryforlaughing.bsky.social
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And the bowl haircut. The short (yes, long by mainstream men's hair standards of the time but way shorter than actual hippy hair) bowl haircut.
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@calizaybak.bsky.social
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It's like when you want to be warm and cold at the same time.
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Pete Woods is full of love and pasta
@thatpetewoods.bsky.social
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Checkmate
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Flopsie
@flopsie.bsky.social
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I'm not a hippie, but I play one on TV.
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Jesse Farrell
@jfsculpts.bsky.social
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Huh! I wonder what Media Patient Zero for this style was, and how it first happened; like which production decided to cut the sleeves off an old fur coat and call it a day?
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Art Of Coop
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is this THE MAN FROM UNCLE? I remember an episode with all the bad guys dressed up like this
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