The Menswear in “Pennies From Heaven” (1981)

This is a blog post that accompanies the most recent bonus pod! You can listen to the first 15 minutes of the bonus pod below, but you’ll have to subscribe on Patreon to get the RSS feed of the full episode (as well as access to our Discord). Honestly, at this point, the topic for our bonus episodes comes up on the fly— literally as we are in the middle of recording an unrelated episode. I apologize to any listeners (all five of you) who constantly suggest films for us to cover; we’ll get to them eventually! I can’t recall exactly what the impetus was, but during some odd pod recording, Spencer mentioned Christopher Walken’s “30s pimp” outfit from Pennies from Heaven (1981). Being a lackluster movie guy, I had no idea what he was talk-en about, but once I looked the character up, I was intrigued. It looked like a 60s (or 70s) version of a 30s outfit, complete with a pattern mixing, a narrow purple necktie, fedora, and a neatly groomed mustache. Spencer said he watched the movie with…