{"id":2200,"date":"2011-12-12T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2011-12-11T19:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T02:15:18","slug":"marlon-brando-on-his-rebellious-wild-ones-costume-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/marlon-brando-on-his-rebellious-wild-ones-costume-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlon Brando on his rebellious &#8216;Wild Ones&#8217; costume (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/anonymousaesthetes.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/marlon-brando-wild-one.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YFp3CDcU4Oc\/THrYAti93xI\/AAAAAAAAAbI\/tXpzD9kOfSo\/s400\/marlon_triumph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlon Brando in the Wild Ones (1953) (Click for source)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>I had fun making it, but never expected it to have the impact it did.  I was as surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion\u2026  Sales of leather jackets soared, reminding me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0025316\/\"><em>It Happened One Nigh<\/em><\/a>t, when Clark Gable took his shirt off and revealed that he wasn&#8217;t wearing an undershirt, which created a disaster for the garment industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Marlon Brando (with Robert Lindsey) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0517195151\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0517195151\"><em>Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me<\/em><\/a>, New York: Random House, 1994, p. 175-6.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had fun making it, but never expected it to have the impact it did. I was as surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion\u2026 Sales of leather jackets soared, reminding me of It Happened One Night, when Clark Gable took his shirt off and revealed that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,94,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}