TMC
07-28-2016, 12:09 AM
http://www.esquire.com/style/news/a47022/star-trek-uniforms/
Like Theiss himself-a reclusive, humorless man who died of AIDS in 1992-the uniform was quirky. The command tunics were green in real life but photographed and transmitted over the small screen as gold. And all of the tops, no matter what their designation, featured a raglan construction that concealed an invisible zipper along the left front seam. Naturally, this novel arrangement often jammed and broke. "That zipper was weird," said Shatner's stand-in, Eddie Paskey, who played the red-shirted Lieutenant Leslie in many episodes. "It started at the neck and went down to your armpit." Paskey also recalled that despite the lack of pockets, the pants had a small hidden slot, inside at the beltline.
Like Theiss himself-a reclusive, humorless man who died of AIDS in 1992-the uniform was quirky. The command tunics were green in real life but photographed and transmitted over the small screen as gold. And all of the tops, no matter what their designation, featured a raglan construction that concealed an invisible zipper along the left front seam. Naturally, this novel arrangement often jammed and broke. "That zipper was weird," said Shatner's stand-in, Eddie Paskey, who played the red-shirted Lieutenant Leslie in many episodes. "It started at the neck and went down to your armpit." Paskey also recalled that despite the lack of pockets, the pants had a small hidden slot, inside at the beltline.