Hear You Me

Is it a Shirt?
Originally uploaded by link5001.

What a lovely shirt! It's the return of Indiana Sloan!

Yeah, this is a picture of my awesome Indiana Jones shirt that I received today from my excellent friend Matt Johnson. Yes, the same Matt Johnson that was in the Batman costume and is soon to be sporting some Boba Fett armor. In case some of you readers don't know my history with Indiana Jones I'll go into a little back story for you.

About 2 years ago, (summer 2002) I was stuck at home for quite some time. I had loved George Lucas' Star Wars Trilogy for quite some time by this point and decided to turn to his other classic trilogy, Indiana Jones. I researched Harrison's costume for countless HOURS. I must have logged over 100 hours on "Club Obi-Wan", the indygear.com prop forum. I found out more about that costume that anyone that didn't work on the set should know. I spent that summer, fall, and winter in total dedication to collecting all the authentic parts to the costume worn by the adventuring archaeologist himself. I got an ACTUAL WW II British Mk VII gas mask bag from the costumer that provided them for the movie...as well as a custom tailored authentic Jones (crusade style) Leather Jacket from Wested Leather (also maker for the movies). I picked up a few other items but never really got the whole thing together due to lack of funds.
This brings us to this shirt. At the time of my collecting the Noel Howard shirt was $90 and not really accurate. Noel made them for the movie but these were just too expensive and not what I was looking for. Now he doesn't even offer his Indy stuff. I shelved the project.

NOW 2004...Merry Christmas! My best friend Matt picked up a thread online with some useful information on getting an authentic shirt made. He had it put together for me and I must say I'm impressed. GREAT GIFT! Will this new bit of treasure re-ignite my flame for the Jones costume? Probably. The hat is the next thing in my sights!

Another plume of smoke shaped like Ron Howard's head???