The right chest pocket closes with a button on a rectangular flap, but the other three pockets are open at the top. The coat has four patch pockets on the outside, all with rounded bottoms and rivets in the top corners. The back is split with pleated “bi-swing” shoulders for additional ease of movement. The jacket has five brass metal buttons down the front with two buttons at the end of each sleeve to adjust the fit around the wearer’s wrists. The shirt-style collar is brown pinwale corduroy with unseen buttons underneath should the wearer want to add an optional hood. All of the main seams are triple-stitched and riveted. 100% ringspun cotton duck, a tightly woven canvas whose snag-proof, water-repellent, and wind-resistant qualities make it ideal for working outside. It is colored in a medium mustard tan tone called “Carhartt brown” and the inside is blanket-lined with quilted nylon lining through the sleeves. The durable coat is made from heavy 12 oz. Family-owned since it was founded in 1889, Carhartt celebrates the 100th anniversary of its first chore coat this year (2017). This particular jacket, Carhartt’s iconic #C001, was introduced in 1917 and can still be purchased for $79.99 from Amazon or Carhartt. What’d He Wear?Ĭarhartt has enjoyed a time-tested reputation for its durable, heavy-duty work jackets as a favorite of rugged American outdoorsmen for more than a century, so it’s no surprise that Llewelyn Moss dons a Carhartt chore coat when his situation calls for an outer layer. Of course, it’s a piece of “modern” (at least in this context) technology that stops the dog – a brightly shining 1911-style pistol that signals the destructive power of new technology against old tactics. After Llewelyn dives into the water, his pursuers are left behind, and only a dog – unencumbered by the trappings of modern technology – is capable to continue the chase. They may be able to outpower him at first with their automatic weapons and 4×4 trucks, but he outmaneuvers them by adapting to the natural terrain. Pursued by men in suits and vivid colors, Llewelyn is the only one who belongs. He always dresses to match the sandy palette of West Texas, so his nighttime excursion naturally sees a break from his pattern of tan shirts as he wears a pale blue shirt that reflects the night over the desert sky.

Llewelyn’s ability to blend in is his strongest asset against his experienced pursuers. Obviously aware of the reckless futility of his return mission, Llewelyn’s trouble is compounded when he reaches the site of the massacre only for gunmen to arrive and nip at his heels from the back of a rapidly advancing Ford Bronco. Llewelyn: Well then I’ll tell her myself. Llewelyn: If I don’t come back, tell mother I love her.Ĭarla Jean: Your mother’s dead, Llewelyn. She finds him in the kitchen, fully dressed and filling a jug of water that he plans on taking to a bullet-riddled man he had encountered earlier in the day and had abandoned in favor of an attaché case full of greenbacks. Unable to sleep due to his guilty conscience, Llewelyn makes one in a succession of critical errors when he pulls himself out of the bed he shares with his beleaguered wife Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) at the Desert Aire Trailer Park in Sanderson. Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, welder, hunter, and Vietnam veteranĪs the Monday after Thanksgiving marks the start of deer hunting season here in western Pennsylvania, today seems a fitting day to revisit one of my favorite hunters from modern cinema, Josh Brolin’s laconic Llewelyn Moss in the Coen Bros.

Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss in No Country for Old Men (2007) Vitals

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