sharpuscm wrote:
Of course it's real!!! Are you suggesting Ripstick would fabricate some incredibly intricate fallacy to explain some insignificant 1 cm tag on a 21-yr old cap?!? What's the matter with you?!?
Exactly!
As if I have nothing but free time on my hands to fabricate this incredibly intri... er, just plain make stuff up!
However, I really should thank my cousin Rachael for getting the scoop on this last year. Since she is still actively on the surfing circuit, she keeps in touch with Roxy Green (Quiksilver/Roxy) in Australia. It was from Roxy that she learned the story behind a little known rush order of hats needed for the Aliens production crew in Buckinghamshire, England.
As the original story goes, a girl named Emma in the costume department was putting up a fuss about a box of baseball-type caps that needed to be 'dressed', but were either lost or had never arrived. It was on-set where Al Matthews's daughter Samantha, who at the innocent age of 9, didn't understand what the big deal was. Without giving it a second thought she contacted her friend Roxy, whose dad -- according to her -- made clothes for a living. She asked if her dad could help out with the Aliens 'hat' situation. Well, Roxy's dad turned out to be Alan Green, founder of Quiksilver surf wear. Within 24 hours a box of 12 plain dark blue baseball caps arrived on-set -- just in time to be dressed up with patches and passed out to the crew for use on screen.
Although the Roxy brand was not registered and made official until 1991 in the U.S., it still existed as an offshoot of the Quiksilver brand as early as 1985 in Australia.
Now doesn't that put everyone's inquiring little minds at ease?
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