Wyatt’s “Captain America” leather jacket was designed and made for Fonda by Clarice Amberg of the South Gate, California-based ABC Leathers, an outfitter “known for its innovative use of colored leather” (according to The Dedicated Follower of Fashion) that was purchased in 1971 by the company known today as Bates Custom Leathers. Wyatt and Billy embark on their epic ride. In accordance with the more lawful reputation of his namesake, Wyatt Earp, Fonda’s character can more easily “pass” with his shorter hair, clean-shaven countenance, and patriotic badging.
Both of our protagonists take their cues from legends of the old west, with Hopper’s Billy-as in “Billy the Kid”-the more blatant outlaw in his fringed hippie buckskins, bushman’s hat, and drooping mustache. After all, if a red, white, and blue-blooded Captain America can’t safely and freely ride across the nation, who can? What’d He Wear?Įasy Rider has no credited costume designer, as it’s been chronicled that Peter Fonda himself had a significant hand in developing Wyatt’s “Captain America” look. Hopper co-stars as the the mustached hippie rider Billy, but the arguable leader of the duo is the flag-bedecked Wyatt (Peter Fonda), celebrated by his pal as “Captain America”.
Set to classic rock like The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Roger McGuinn, and Steppenwolf, we follow two bikers in their journey across the United States, from the open desert of the southwest into the close-knit conservative communities of the deep South.
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To some, it explores the death of the American dream through the concept of freedom, asking what it really means to be a free American. When I learned the second Saturday of October is commemorated as National Motorcycle Ride Day, I realized I’d gone far too long without shining a sartorial lens on Dennis Hopper’s iconic cult classic, Easy Rider.Ĭonceptualized by Hopper, Fonda, and screenwriter Terry Southern, Easy Rider‘s chaotic production and controversial themes have been the product of considerable discussion since its release during that seminal summer of ’69. Peter Fonda as Wyatt, aka “Captain America”, freedom-loving bikerĪcross the southern United States from Los Angeles through Louisiana, February 1968 Peter Fonda as “Captain America” in Easy Rider (1969) Vitals
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