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    James Dean Jacket

    Tapatalk automatically resizes the images really small. Sorry. The main item here is an extended quote from Nicholas Ray: (Re: the switch from black and white to color.) "The first thing I did was pull a red jacket off the Red Cross man, dip it in black paint to take off the sheen and give it...
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    James Dean Jacket

    Here's the page from Dalton's book.
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    James Dean Jacket

    'Live Fast, Die Young' I read the 'Live Fast, Die Young' book and learned a whole lot. Looking at the notes in the back of the book, there are four different sources for information on the origins of the jacket: 1. Author's interviews with Mazzola, Grinnage, Mabry. Conducted 9/2003 2. Life...
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    James Dean Jacket

    Life magazine, 9/24/1956 p. 80
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    James Dean Jacket

    Thanks for the defense! Yes indeed it has a label!
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    James Dean Jacket

    It looks like Frank Mazzola, member of the Athenians street gang, adviser to the film, and who also played Crunch, died ten days ago: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-frank-mazzola-20150122-story.html RIP Crunch.
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    James Dean Jacket

    I agree. I'm usually not much for criticism but in this case it at least explains why they would have changed the color of the lining. Got the blue size 38 in the mail today. It's beautiful! A touch big but not too different from the fit in the film. Again, I'm 5'6 and 138 or so. The...
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    James Dean Jacket

    Red Color Symbolism in 'Rebel' There was another thing I meant to ramble about before I forget. In 'Rebel Without a Cause', Jim, the troubled hero, wears a bright red jacket with a dark brown (or dark grey) lining. Buzz (and subsequently Crunch), the villians and successive gang leaders...
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    James Dean Jacket

    That was a lot of info. without much of a point. Just trying to reconcile 'what the jacket was' with 'what the jacket looks like'. I first saw Rebel when I was 15 (in early 1994) at a screening in a historic theater in Dallas. It was a vivid, beautiful print. After seeing the movie I...
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    James Dean Jacket

    Shine, Lighting and Dipping A few thoughts on dipping, dyeing, shine, lighting, film stock and how the jacket appears in the film. Dipping? Various reports about the making of the film have the jacket being 'dipped' to take down the shine. Doesn't seem unreasonable. The old movie lights...
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    James Dean Jacket

    Green Production Label One element that hasn't been discussed is the Warner Bros. green and white production label that would have been sewn into the red Anti-freeze jacket. The Rebel sport coat, (which was also owned by Elvis of all people), survived and got auctioned off a couple years ago...
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    James Dean Jacket

    Though I've never found evidence of a production 'dark-lined' Anti-Freeze, here's at least proof that McGregor had and used a dark black/charcoal nylon fleece in 1955: The Nyfleece Bat! I found the ad a few years ago, and the actual garment is on ebay right now for 85 buckaroos: This at...
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    James Dean Jacket

    I'm the one who posted the screen grab before! I'd post a better one off the Blu-Ray, but I can't rip Blu-Ray frames. Standing in front of the TV with my head upside down, I could clearly read McGregor and better see the 'Nylon Anti Freeze' part of the label.
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    James Dean Jacket

    I got the Blu-Ray for Rebel today. Went straight to the scene with the label. It's definitely 100% a McGregor Anti-Freeze label. Not that there was any doubt.
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    James Dean Jacket

    It falls a lot further off his shoulders when he zips it up halfway and lifts the waist up above his jeans. It's a generous baggy cut but that doesn't mean he wore a big size. The 1954 Boys' Life Anti-Freeze ad states that it came in Prep sizes up to size 20. The mens' ads don't give sizes...
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    James Dean Jacket

    'Sleeves are too long and body is too short' - sounds like an authentic 50s cut to me! I was wondering, if James did in fact wear an Anti-Freeze jacket off the rack, what size would he have worn? A 1950s example size 38 measures 18.5" wide shoulder seam to shoulder seam. James was reportedly...
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    James Dean Jacket

    I can see that the jacket might have been a partially deconstructed, altered, tailored and reconstructed off the rack jacket. (The grey lining is the main clue that at least something was done.) For what it's worth, I took a bunch of dvd grabs of the label when it's visible in the film and...
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    James Dean Jacket

    New Japanese Reproduction Hello all. It looks like the Japanese company 'The Real Mccoy's' is offering an exact anti-freeze reproduction right now, down to the label and everything: https://www.realmccoys.co.jp/catalog/products/detail.php?product_id=2623&pg= You can order it direct from...

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