A Plaid Inspired by Paul Bacon’s cover for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Paul Bacon’s cover for Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest distills a rising cultural unease into color and type. Blocks of acid green, rust, and bruise-purple fracture the surface like a mind under pressure. Across it the title appears in Bacon’s signature hand-cut typography, letters shifting hue and weight as though trying to escape the grid that contains them.
Bacon, who defined the “big book look” of mid-century publishing used typography not as ornament but as psychology. Here the type becomes the patient: bold, uneven, almost shouting against the institutional flatness of the background. The effect mirrors Kesey’s narrative as a collision between control and chaos, authority and the human will.
Printed at the dawn of the 1960s the design bridges Beat-era dissonance and psychedelic revolt visualizing the American mind on the verge of rupture.
A plaid that feels less printed than pulsing, alive with the tension between order and unrest.
A soft three season organic brushed flannel cotton twill.
Individually cut and sewn.
Made of 97% Cotton and 3% Spandex.
Features a locker loop at the center back neck, split yoke for comfortable ease of movement and side gussets for reinforcement. Single needle tailoring throughout with French seam for softer seams. Our crisp collars and cuffs are made using the highest grade German interfacings.
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Use a tape measure to find your perfect fit.
Go to your closet and grab your favorite shirt.
Lay it down on any flat surface and smooth out the wrinkles.
Measure across the chest and waist of your shirt.
Double those measurements and compare them to our size table.
To check your sleeve length have a friend measure from the center of the back neck to the shoulder tip then down the sleeve to the cuff.
