Subject: Re: to cap it all
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 17:27:56 GMT
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:20:27PM -0600, Suzanne Morine wrote:
> front of his eyes horsing around with Ackley. Another thing that makes it
> seem like an unusual cap is that Ackley recognizes it specifically as a
> deer hunting cap. Was it shaped differently than a baseball cap? Or was it
> in camoufage colors? Or in bright hunter's orange?
I don't think that bright orange was introduced until well after
CATCHER was published. I think "safety orange" (as it's called) was
introduced to hunting wear after a fair number of deer hunters drilled
each other, under the impression that they had Bambi in their sights.
And I can't say this for sure but I suspect that camoflauge colors in
general use came into style during the Vietnam war. I wasn't, um,
around much before that period -- at least not in a state in which I
was blessed with long-term memory -- but I recall camoflauge becoming
popular in pants and jackets, and then hats, when I was a teenager,
which was in the mid-to-late 1970s.
DIGRESSION: I read a pretty fascinating piece a few months ago in (I
think) The New Yorker about "safety" colors. Seems there is a trend
in the safety business, moving away from orange to a fluorescent
yellow color instead. It's starting to show up in street signs, at
first.
--tim
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