"That's ok pilgrim. Look your face matches my shirt."
"It takes a real man to wear a pink shirt."
"Don't make me smack you."
"Sorry Duke."
Michaleen Flynn: No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats
Michaleen Flynn: No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats
When did wayne ever wear a pink shirt?
ReplyDeleteI call BS.
The Museum on Fire Island?
ReplyDeleteThough still controversial, I think it's important to recast American heros as gay (or at least more sensitive). It makes it much easier on today's man. At least that's the thinking in the 537XX zip codes.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness they could never say that about John Wayne…
ReplyDeleteHe dresses sort of questionable in that photo, but look where is eyes are going.
ReplyDeleteJebus. The hands on hips, the outthrust knee, the pink shirt…you sure that's not Jake Gyllenhaal?
ReplyDelete"Sorry Duke I do the best I can."
ReplyDelete"Thath's ok pilgrim. Look your fathe matches my thirt."
"It takes a real man to wear a pink shirt."
"Don't make me thmack you."
"Sorry Duke."
FIFY
It isn't just the dress, it's the pose and over all artifice used.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the pink shirt goes back to Wagon War, where the color appears more salmon than pink, with black buttons and a blue bandanna that isn't draped like a silk scarf. While Wayne's upper body steals the show in the photos, with this rendition, the package wrinkles have their own story to tell.
I had a pink Aeropostale shirt back in the 90's. it was one of my favorites. NTTAWWT
ReplyDeleteIt looks like I'm going to be in Jersey a little longer.
ReplyDeleteMy brother in laws car we are using to drive down is still at the mechanic.
Not too swift, my brother in law.
The car isn't a Chevy Nova is it?
ReplyDeleteJeez I'm glad this a closed blog.
ReplyDeleteYes, you can wear a off-red (salmon) shirt when you're on a horse pointing a six-gun at Kirk Douglas!
ReplyDeleteNapoleon wore a frilly shirt, and conquered half of Europe and banged every chick from Moscow to Cairo.
ReplyDeleteContext. Its like Trooper, sure he fits bras for a living, but he almost died from too much booze and steaks - for Gods sake. Talk about Not Gay.
I thought Napoleon ended up with the slutty Josephine, who kept herself entertained while he was off campaigning with other, uh, members of the court.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe they had an understanding.
Lem, given how hot and humid Florida is in the summer, a delay may be a good thing
ReplyDeleteThe costume they have the Duke is the same one he wore in the "War Wagon" which of course had a very gay costume designer. (Redundancy warning.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is the people running the museum all seemed to be gay so of course they posed the Duke in as gay a pose that they could come up with to make him look bad.
Par for the course for NYC.
Pink didn't become girly until the 1940s, so technically the costume is historically accurate.
ReplyDeleteThe pose with him in a frilly tutu, though, is definitely questionable.
The hat really needs a small floral arrangement.
ReplyDelete"The costume they have the Duke is the same one he wore in the "War Wagon" which of course had a very gay costume designer. (Redundancy warning."
ReplyDeleteDisagree dude. They changed the Duke's shirt from off-red to Light Pink. Then they got rid of the dark buttons and the blue neckerchief and also lightened up the vest. There's a picture of the Duke from "Rio Bravo" almost wearing the same thing, only the shirt is much redder. Commies today aren't red, they're pink!
The problems if the Duke poses in a Gay manner. He needs a six-gun or a Winchester. But maybe that would've been too scary for the Liberals visiting the place.
ReplyDelete"I thought Napoleon ended up with the slutty Josephine"
ReplyDeleteNo her dumped her for Marie Louise of Austria who had a father who was a big-wig in Vienna. Both Napoleon and Josey were swingers, if you know what I mean. The French Revolution will do that to you.
I have a pink dress shirt I wear w/ a beige suit. Pilgrims.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed that something you bought in the '70s still fits, nd.
ReplyDeleteI used to wear pink all the time because my m-i-l dressed me. She worked at a department store and got free shit all the time. We wore so much Tommy Hilfiger, Polo, and Nautica it was pathetic. Best dressed paupers in the land, I claimed. Anyhow, I never knew what colors I was going to get, but didn't care. Free is my favorite color.
ReplyDeleteSo, this young punk we know always used to refer to me as "Windbag, who wears the pink shirts." Never to my face or within earshot, but cowards are like that. So one day I was wearing my pink shirt and ran into him. I told him, "Notice I'm wearing a pink shirt? One day, if you ever get comfortable with your masculinity, you too can wear pink shirts without caring what others think of you." Dick.
Chip, You are the funniest commenter on any blog I read. I actually did wear a beige suit @ my outdoor wedding in KC. It was 3 piece[1977] but a white shirt. We got married outdoors and it was 98 degrees. My suit looked like James Brown's after a performance. I was 190lbs. I'm 225 now, but have tipped 280.
ReplyDeleteWindbag, Thanks for having my back.
ReplyDeleteI've almost always had a pink shirt in my rotation somewhere. In the '80s, pastels were big, and I still don't think Don Johnson looked effeminate in "Miami Vice", e.g.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the Russian girls titter, but Russia is pretty messed up vis a vis ideas of masculinity.
Otherwise, it's a good color on me.
I usually buy pink underwear, but for some reason the crotch always discolors and fades to a sort of rusty brown hue. Must be some glitch in the dyeing process at the plant, huh?
ReplyDeleteMy white underwear would always turn pink until I got married and learned of separating colors.
ReplyDeleteseparating colors
ReplyDeleteRacist.
Separate but equal laundry.
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