Why does Scott appear to wear the same shirt for R/A Backstage 3 weeks in a row? He then changes to a different shirt, which he wears for every Backstage for 3 weeks in a row. Does he have some kind of shirt rotation? Or is there just some unfathomable pattern in the way Mrs. Ott dresses him? May we never learn the terrible secret of Scott’s shirt….
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Maybe they are the best shirts for optimum camera happiness, maybe they are Scott’s “power shirts”, maybe he has a couple shirts he hangs in his “studio” for quick dressing, or maybe they film 3 shows at a time.
My first reaction to this post was . . .
Our country is being flushed into “the sewer of eternal shite” and someone wearing a shirt multiple times is what’s on the menu. (?)
I recognize it may be a light banter to ease the troubled mind in our times. Granted.
Perhaps I struggle with too much seriousness. If so, my apologies for being the “downer” in the room.
It’s a technical issue with the camera. It has to be adjusted every time for the color. It’s easier to wear the same thing. (Made that up on the fly). Being retired, I wear the same tee shirt and pajama bottoms for a week.
I’m not sure, but I think they film a bunch of episodes at the same time, too.
If you only wear a shirt for an hour at a time you can leave it hanging on the camera for the next show.
As ACTS notes, I suspect it is both a rotation and video thing.
Someone pointed out to me at work quite some time ago, that I wore the same golf shirt frequently. I only saw this person at one specific weekly meeting so I was wearing a shirt I wore on that day because I had gotten into a spring / summer rut of cycling through the same 5 golf shirts.
I laughed about it and mentioned it to my wife that night.
She promptly got on-line and ordered me several different colors of the same shirt. I think she thought it bothered me.
I have often though about getting 5 of the same shirt and pants and making that my uniform. She didn’t like that idea which only goes to show if my wife didn’t care I certainly wouldn’t.
I used to specifically wear a “uniform” for work at my own business. I wore a white button down dress shirt, no tie, black jeans and good western boots (Tony Llama, Dan Post, Luchese, etc.) If a jacket was needed it was a black leather blazer, or a heavier bomber, depending on the weather.
I have no idea how I got into that rut and when I discovered that I had done so I had not the least bit of desire to change it. It worked well for my purposes, looked “good enough” for the casual-professional nature of my work and no one complained that I looked like a bum.
One day wearing the black blazer a cute little female technician at a client site winked at me and called me “gunslinger”. That might have gone further but it’s never a good idea to become involved with the help … 🙂
I agree totally with the other three posts here: It’s definitely a “guy thing” and it also has something to do with the uniform thing. I am this way, too, so far be it from me to diss anyone else’s wardrobe!
“Scott” is actually Bill’s first successful CGI creation. The real Scott quit years ago.
The problem is that Bill’s computer doesn’t have enough memory to store a large variety of costume variations. So by necessity, Bill needs to re-use visual files frequently.
If you want to see “Scott” in different shirts, make a donation to Bill’s computer upgrade account!
I thought Natasha was Bill’s first CGI creation 😉
This is the most plausible explanation by far.
I can’t speak for Scott and it’s an interesting bit of observation you’ve made but …
When guys find something they like, they wear it. Especially if they don’t have a gal fussing over how they look. Even if they do have someone fussing about their appearance, they tend to gravitate to what they like in the bounds available to them. In the pics you posted Steve is wearing a button down cotton shirt and Bill is wearing a polo shirt. Same shirts every time, different colors.
People who see me probably think I’m wearing the same clothes all the time. When I find something I like I buy 3 – 6 of them. In the winter you’ll see me most often dressed in night camo cargo pants and a gray Dickies long sleeve work shirt that matches. I sort of favor a uniformed look but the main thing is those pants don’t show stains and those shirts are really comfortable with big pockets for my phone, cigar case, fountain pen(s) etc.
Summer dress is khaki cargo pants or shorts (camo or khaki) with guide shirts (epaulettes, cargo pockets, vent gussets, etc.). Basically the same kind of thing as winter – Comfortable, lots of pockets, easy to clean …
There are also clothes that just don’t play well with cameras, that might have something to do with it too.
Every single piece of clothing I wear is black. Too to bottom, inside to out. Every. Last. One. (And all my other cloth stuff – towels, sheets, etc – is also black. See below.)
Why? So I don’t have to think about what I’m going to wear. Everything matches. I pull out one of each thing I need to get dressed and I’m done. Everything goes in the laundry together so I don’t have to think about what needs to be sorted with what. I have other things besides clothes that I prefer to spend mental energy on.
(I also have a laundry procedure that is based on minimizing folding and eliminating ironing. Shirts come out of the dryer as soon as possible after it’s done and go straight onto hangers if they have buttons, at least the top two are buttoned to keep the collar from drooping. Same for pants, just fold on the crease – or seams, if they’re not creased – and straight onto a hanger. Nothing else gets folded. Underwear, socks, towels, sheets, etc? Who cares if they’re folded? All my socks are exactly the same, too. They’re all stored out of sight and any wrinkles disappear quickly when they’re used or don’t matter at all.
I hate folding.)
Lol, sounds like you’ve got the whole thing scoped and locked. With guys, clothes are a necessity and a tool. With girls they’re plumage. Any guy that treats his clothing choices like plumage is suspect. Not guilty, just suspect.
Of course, like I said, many guys have gals that make unavoidable incursions into the domain of cladding. Not all females do this but there are enough to be noteworthy. In that case … This cannot be helped if they want to keep that girl around.
Both of the major women in my life – mother, (now ex) wife – tried to control everydamnthing. I haven’t kept either of them around.
I hear ya. My Mom wasn’t so bad as these things go but I have two exes and no desire to step up to the plate for the third strike.
My neighbor said, “I’ll continue to wear black clothes until someone makes a darker color!”
LOL
Shirt rotations can get fixed over time. Also, guys have favorite shirts. It’s a guy thing and we don’t care. If we like a shirt, we like a shirt.