{"id":1098,"date":"2013-11-29T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T01:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2014-05-06T23:19:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T06:19:33","slug":"the-fabulous-world-of-scrappy-neckwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/the-fabulous-world-of-scrappy-neckwear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fabulous World of Scrappy Neckwear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scrappy<\/a><\/p>\n

How much is there to say about Scrappy neckties like the ones shown above, all of which are preserved in the formalwear wing of the Scrappyland archives? Quite a bit, actually.<\/p>\n

For instance, here’s a brief story from the invaluable Scrappyana chronicler The Film Daily<\/em> noting the deal which made the ties possible.<\/p>\n

\"Scrappy<\/a><\/p>\n

(The reference to Scrappy mufflers — I assume we’re talking about scarfs — is intriguing. I’ve never seen one myself.) <\/p>\n

Here’s a Columbia publicity photo showing one of the ties being worn by Dickie Walters, who was — rather briefly<\/a> — one of the studio’s kid stars<\/a>. We also get to see what the display looked like, and to marvel at the tagline “for ‘He’ Boys.”<\/p>\n

\"Scrappy<\/a><\/p>\n

Between the three examples from the Scrappyland collection and the six shown in the Columbia photo, we know of at least six different Scrappy tie designs — though two feature the same art, with and without a “Howdy folks!” (I have a theory that the one at the right in the picture of our collection, showing Scrappy swinging a baseball bat, might be a later style — it shows a slicked-up version of the character who is, in this depiction, a blonde.)<\/p>\n

The back of the Columbia picture is also worth a peek.<\/p>\n

\"Back<\/a><\/p>\n

It shows that the photo was prepared for distribution in January of 1935 and was taken by William A. Fraker — father of the distinguished cinematographer of the same name — and had been approved by the Hays office, whose infamous moral code<\/a> apparently applied to publicity materials as well as movies. (Let’s hope that it had no trouble passing.)<\/p>\n

And here’s a vintage photo of a kid wearing a Scrappy tie — the same style shown at the left in the selection at the top of this post.<\/p>\n

\"Kid<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t know who this lad is, but he must have liked his Scrappy tie — after all, he chose to wear it in a formal portrait. Which means that he was a man of good taste and a kindred soul of anyone who’s interested enough in Scrappy to have read this entire post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How much is there to say about Scrappy neckties like the ones shown above, all of which are preserved in the formalwear wing of the Scrappyland archives? Quite a bit, actually. For instance, here’s a brief story from the invaluable Scrappyana chronicler The Film Daily noting the deal which made the ties possible. (The reference … Continue reading The Fabulous World of Scrappy Neckwear<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-hI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}