My friend is an award-winning graphic designer with 15 years’ experience. Furthermore, I think it accounts for the sudden popularity of White Sox caps.” I think they spell out, or appear to spell out, or at least suggest in the mind, ‘sex,’ and I don’t think it’s by accident. “The positioning of the letters, the type face. “I think it’s a good example of subliminal advertising,” my friend explained. Here’s a Baltimore Sun article about the phenomenon from 1993 (the same year my White Sox Little League team won our city championship, incidentally): All you needed was a Sox hat, a Sharpie, and an incredibly immature sense of humor: Getty Image Getty Image Getty ImageĪnd BOOM, you were instantly the coolest kid in middle school until the teacher called your parents. This was facilitated by the design quirks of the 1991 White Sox logo. Nonetheless I point it out as nostalgia fuel, and for your help in discovering an original artifact of an awesomely ’90s trend: changing your “Sox” hat into a “Sex” hat. Obviously, in the grand scheme of things, Straight Outta Compton‘s hat error is probably significantly less important than leaving out, say, Dr. #anachronism /jETH1sxAbCĪs Mike Provine (and a million others) have by now pointed out, an early scene in Straight Outta Compton sees Eazy E wearing the ultra popular ’90s Sox hat, featuring the logo that was introduced in 1991. Great movie! Except Easy-E's 1991 White Sox hat in 1986. #161: Straight Outta Compton – MovieCount 2015.
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