Hello everyone who’s still following this blog! It’s been a while! This week, I got an enquiry about the brand of Hutch’s iconic varsity jacket (or letterman jacket, baseball jacket – it has many names). I hadn’t been able to figure it out before, but now I got lucky and I’m here to share the information. The brand is Whiting. You can read more about it in the updated post about the jacket.
I’m still struggling with how to continue my work on this inventory, so this might not yet be the end of my blogging hiatus. When I finally start posting new items, I may have to give up some features I first thought were important, such as backdating the posts to the first appearance of the item in the show (it takes a lot of work to be anywhere near certain of that), or writing up lists of all the episodes where the item is seen (even more work to be anywhere near certain of those!). We’ll see how it goes.
However, if there’s some item in the show belonging to Starsky or Hutch that you’ve been wondering about and can’t find in this blog, please don’t hesitate to contact me – if I don’t have an answer ready, I’ll be more than happy to dig around and see if I might get as lucky as I did today with the jacket brand. Learning new stuff about the show is so much fun!
It’s a size 38–that number in the corner is the size. At least that’s where it is on the vintage jackets I looked up. Which means it was a 38 inch chest–a man’s small to medium.
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Thanks for the explanation that the jacket sizing follows chest measurement, I didn’t have the patience to go looking if 38 is tiny or huge, so I just added the note that I have no idea what size Hutch’s jacket was. And lol, of course now I remembered that I do have an idea: I have a silly magazine scan that lists David’s clothes sizes and other measurements, and according to that, his coat size was 40. That sounds plausible, though I wouldn’t trust the magazine to have actual facts (unless they bribed a S&H crew member to take notes of Hutch’s wardrobe).
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I have an idea for a new post — Starsky’s red and blue shirts with the white stripes on the sleeves. I think it’s only on your LJ or DW.
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Thank you, that’s a good idea, I’ve had to point a few people to my DW over the years when they’ve asked about these! Any idea which episodes those shirts first appeared in? 😀
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Not sure, sometime in S2 I think. But maybe we can enlist Babs to help with that. It’ll be a good excuse for a 3rd rewatch! 😁
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