A 14 minute video for your Saturday afternoon.
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A classic story retold as a Hollywood western. Some bad guys show up, the good guys get hired, there are some gun fights, a few characters die, a few lessons are told, and then the heroes ride off.
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Set in 1926, The Sand Pebbles is full of many different types of U.S. Navy uniforms from the time. One of my favorite details is shown when Steve McQueen’s character rolls up the sleeves of a shirt to show the liberty cuffs hidden underneath (similar details can be found on some Mister Freedom pieces). [...]
Barbour has updated its website with an interactive area on the history of the International jacket, along with a section highlighting its two new limited edition versions to mark the anniversary. Of course, Steve McQueen is not left out.
Photo via The Selvedge Yard.
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The Times Online has an edited extract from a new Steve McQueen biography that is due out next month, which will focus on the actor’s rough background.
Steve McQueen was the last person in the world I expected to find in Cornwall. He’d arrived some time in the night at a house that the director Sam [...]
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For context, you should also read the original article that the pictures were shot for: LIFE Issue Jul 12, 1963
In the following issue that was published that year, there were some humorous letters to the editor in regards to the article.
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Written in 1966 by Steve McQueen for Popular Science, he reviews several motorcycles out in the desert.
For the Seattle folks, our art museum will be hosting a series of Steve McQueen’s best movies over the next few months in the Plestcheeff Auditorium downtown. The first film, The Great Escape, will be shown tomorrow night.
More info on SAM’s website.
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From wikipedia:
The Jaguar XKSS was a road-going version of the Jaguar D-Type racing car.
After Jaguar withdrew from racing the company offered the remaining, unfinished chassis as the roadgoing Jaguar XKSS, by making changes to the racers: adding an extra seat, another door, a full-width windshield and folding top, as concessions to practicality. However, on the [...]
Perhaps the most famous of all flight jackets?
I was looking around for alternatives to J.Crew’s cashmere shawl collar cardigan this morning when I came across these from Drake’s of London.
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We’d been musing about the shawl-collared cardigan ever since we saw William Claxton’s marvellous photo book of Steve McQueen. There’s a series of casual shots taken in Big Sur, with McQueen [...]
The WSJ just published an article on Steve McQueen’s continuing influence on menswear that’s worth a read: Fashion Channels the Steve McQueen Mojo
Steve McQueen died in 1980. Today, he is a rising star in menswear.
Dolce & Gabbana has created a line of $285 T-shirts decorated with pictures of the 1960s and ’70s star for spring, [...]