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NOT YOUR AVERAGE KNIT CAP

Theo DouglasMon. June 16
 

It’s hard to see in the trailer, but that gray knit cap Will Smith wears in Hancock (the “Not Your Average Superhero” superhero movie opening in a couple weeks) is actually vintage, and it came from Fourth Street’s Meow.

“We sold them multiples, ’cause they had to distress it and then they put an eagle patch on it,” says Meow owner Kathleen Schaaf. And now, she adds, “It’s like that tall,” on billboards and buses.

Which is nice for a change–though Meow has done film work at least since 1989’s Great Balls of Fire (portrait of the Jerry Lee Lewis as a Dennis Quaid).

More recently, there’s been TV’s Mad Men and Swingtown, both of which are returning for a new season and more episodes respectively–and installments of clothing historian Rin Tanaka’s My Freedamn! books, which feature Schaaf’s collection extensively.

But in Hancock, there’s a knit cap–and it’s this big.

And on a side note, there once was a working title for this film–which, as is so often the case, didn’t start out with the name it has now.

Originally, it was Tonight, He Comes, which if you think about it, isn’t too much different from Hancock.

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