Orange Plaid Sportsjacket sighting on CBS Sunday Morning

[Mysterious Benefactor]

It was PT Quentin's and apparently the only jacket he owned!

Now, now - that's not true. He wore others. Here are but a few:

From Ep #981:

From Ep #985:

From Ep #993:

 

I have me a hankerin' for a little blood-curdling horror.  Would someone with computer skills care to throw an image of the jacket up here?   I'm afraid I can't make it worth your while, but it'll be fun.

There are already many captures with Quentin wearing it, but here's another:

From Ep #988:

And I still say it was a very fashionable jacket for the '70s - whether in PT or RT.    (Though personally I liked double-breasted better back then. I would have loved to have had that blue jacket from Ep #985.)

[Taeylor Collins]

Okay.  He wore that one more times than not.  Or perhaps a day went on for two or three weeks? I have only watched PT once so I guess I am not a good judge. I have noticed after the FX and scary stuff came in the fashion budget went out the door.  IMHO.  All the cast seems to have many different clothes in the early eps in The Beginning Collectors series. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I suspect that the reason some people have the impression that's the only jacket Quentin wore was because when[spoiler]Quentin escaped from jail, he was wearing that jacket - and he continued to wear it the entire time he was on the lam. Who knows why Angelexis couldn't have gotten him some other clothes?    Or at least a comb?!    But she didn't...[/spoiler]

It's the same case with Adam and the green sweater. Some people think that's all he ever wore. But quite obviously it isn't. Though compared to PT Quentin, Adam definitely had a limited wardrobe for such a long running character.

[Nelson Collins]

That's not so bad.  I was expecting something more like my current avatar.... 

[arashi]

Sorry to back track - but I wanted to point out that Quentin's ghost actually had a larger wardrobe than Quentin did in 1897.

[Lydia]

arashi, I'm having real problems assimilating that observation into my brain.  The process goes something like this: "Hmm...he was walled up in that room...was there a sewing machine?...or was it he who was bricked up in that room?...did he roam the world buying clothes for seventy years until he had finally assembled an adequate wardrobe for haunting?...did he run into any ectoplasmic trouble trying on clothes?...did he buy a zoot suit?...or an orange plaid sportsjacket?...no, he can't have, or he'd have worn them...but...but...but...CTRL-ALT-DEL...Hmm...he was walled up in that room..."

[arashi]

LOL! OK, perhaps my memory is failing me - bit I swear at one point Quentin's ghost actually appeared with a darker colored suit on - but I could be mistaken.

[MagnusTrask]

Welcome back, arashi!

When you're a ghost, aren't you supposed to wear what you died in, all the time?

[Midnite]

What caught my eyeballs was what he was wearing in that pickup shot (and ONLY that pickup shot).

It was the twin brother of  Quentin's infamous eyespraining orange plaid sportsjacket from PT 1970.

At last, the segment has made it onto YouTube!  As Jeannie mentioned, the jacket, in all its ugly glory, can be seen during the intro and at the start of the segment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWzvYWQk2cI

[arashi]

Thanks Magnus!

And I guess I was mistaken - but I guess he changed his tie more often?

[Pansity]

LOL! OK, perhaps my memory is failing me - bit I swear at one point Quentin's ghost actually appeared with a darker colored suit on - but I could be mistaken.

Hmm, going to have to look next time I do a run through of that storyline.  What I DO remember (from having checked some things multiple times for fanfiction purposes) is that 1897 Quentin had two suits that looked to be the same, but one appeared more a dark charcoal, and the other the navy one we all remember (and Edward SHOULD have remembered in the jail cell.  After all how many guys in that town were six foot four with muttonchops and an expensive custom made suit?  Inquring minds want to know about this small town.....)

And thanks for the catch on the youtube clip, Midnight.  Nice to have digital evidence of this for all to peruse the weirdness of it all.



Jeannie