Paris, Texas: Harry Dean Stanton’s Red Road Trip Shirt and Ranchero

Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas (1984) Vitals Harry Dean Stanton as Travis Henderson, once-wandering drifter Los Angeles to Houston, Fall 1983 Film: Paris, Texas Release Date: September 19, 1984 Director: Wim Wenders Costume Designer: Birgitta Bjerke WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background One of my favorite actors, Harry Dean Stanton, was born 100 years ago today on July 14, 1926 in Kentucky. Following his U.S. Navy service during World War II, Stanton began an acting career that lasted more than six decades until his death from heart failure at age 91 in September 2017 after completing his penultimate film Lucky, which also afforded Stanton the rare starring role. He was a close, respected friend of many A-listers like Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, and Jack Nicholson, who included Stanton as best man in his 1962 wedding and habitually scrawled “H.D. Stanton” on the sets of his films. Stanton typically made the most of supporting roles in films like Cool Hand Luke (1967),…