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.

Links:

Hunting fashion Pinterest board: https://pin.it/60F92bfWP 

Ep. 37: Male Desire w/ Charles Livingston [UNLOCKED]

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