Is Cub Scout Uniform Fashionable?
Posted in Miscellaneous by John E. Pannell on July 3rd, 2007 at 3:50 am I was particularly bored earlier tonight. While wasting time wandering about the internet I ran into a picture of Seth Green at Wizard World Philadelphia. This apparently was a comic convention held in 2005. Green is probably best known for his portrayal of Scotty Evil, Dr. Evil’s son, in the Austin Powers films.
What caught me was his rather unexpected wardrobe choice: A Cub Scout uniform shirt!
To me it’s clear from this picture that this is an actual uniform shirt and not a cheap knock-off. Most of the patches, except for a counstrip, or community and state strips, are present and in the correct positions.
Once upon a time BSA uniforms could (generally) only be purchased from licensed dealers and you were supposed to show a registration card to buy them. That has long since changed and now used uniforms are commonly found in thrift shops.
I doubt Green’s a registered Cub Scout leader who dropped in at this convention straight from some sort of Scouting event, or an official spokesman for the BSA. He, or a personal aid of some sort, probably found this in such a shop and thought it just the thing to achieve that “thirft store chic” or “vintage clothing” look. I really doubt he cared that it was inappropriate for him, not a registered member of the BSA, to wear this uniform. I wonder if any of the attendees recognized his attire or said anything about it.
One doesn’t see any of the “Hollyweird” type wearing Scout uniforms these days, even if improperly. Is a Cub Scout shirt now cool vintage clothing?
What is more surprising is that he is small enough to fit in a Cub Scout uniform. Maybe he’s not a “big” enough star to have some handler to tell him that wearing a Cub Scout shirts brings to everyone’s attention that he is short. Unless he’s raiding Gary Coleman’s closet.
Hey, watch it there… He’s taller than I am!
It could be a leader’s shirt. There’s also some pretty big Webelos out there these days.
When I was in high school, an old uniform shirt was pretty popular among many of the girls.
With the World Sout crest on the uniform, it would likely be less than 20 yers old. I could be wrong, but don’t adult Cub Scout uniforms come in Boy Scout colors? I have to think this was a youth uniform.
I do remember in the early MTV days that the Fleetwood Mac video for “Tusk” showed Stevie Nicks in a Cub Scout uniform. Not that she could fit in it these days….
I have encountered this before…the look they are trying to achieve is called “emo”…. If you search Ebay for Scout uniform shirts, a lot are advertised for this purpose….
The Cub Scout blue shirt is only for Cub Scout youth from grades 1-5. It is not worn by any other age group. The Cub Scout leader wears standard tan/green uniform whether male/female, but females have the option of wearing the yellow shirt with blue pants.
Perhaps he just has a healthy uniform fetish. There is nothing wrong with that, many males and females do. A scout uniform is a great way to satisfy that in a cool way. In my youthful years I wore my scout uniform everywhere, didn’t want to take it off, I loved it, I wish it still fitted now ! I had my first sexual encounter whilst wearing a uniform. Go uniform wearers !