Ep. 52: Hunting Fashion

Silent Generation

This week Joseph and Nathan examine the various aesthetics that have come out of hunting fashion. They begin by discussing how shooting and hunting in the United Kingdom are leisure activities that have historically only been available to the most wealthy, and why British clothing associated with the activity looks more formal and more conspicuous than its American counterpart (such as red fox hunting coats). The boys then go into a deep dive of how hunting camouflage developed out of military camouflage before detailing why it's worn so often by everyday people in the United States. Amongst other things they discuss how buffalo skins worn by Native Americans during buffalo jumps are an early example of camouflage, how the Harris/ Walz campaign released a camo campaign hat in response to Chappel Roan’s Midwest Princess tour camo hat, how high-visibility blaze orange is more liberal-coded than hunting camo, and how deer aren’t able to see high-visibility blaze orange because they are red-green colorblind.

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Hunting fashion Pinterest board: https://pin.it/60F92bfWP
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The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions by Thorstein Veblen
Gentlemanly Pursuits: Hunting & Shooting Attire by J. A. Shapira
Dressed to Kill: A History of British Sporting Fashion by Kim Cady
What to Wear Game Shooting by Alan Paine
The Density Divide and the Southernification of Rural America by Will Wilkinson
Tim Walz Struggles With Shotgun At Pheasant Hunt, Gets Mocked
Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’ by Leland Cecco
Blaze Orange Regulations for Every State by Teri Williams
Can Deer See Blaze Orange? by Lindsay Thomas Jr.

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Recorded on 12/22/2024