NYLON - August 2008 - (Page 64) 1 2 4 3 ROCKY ROAD All it takes is one moment for everything to change. What began as two girlfriends abandoning their humdrum existences—a tiresome job waiting tables and a chauvinist husband, respectively—for a quiet weekend spent fishing in the mountains, quickly spirals into a full-blown run from the law in 1991’s Thelma and Louise. That’s what happens when you shoot a guy with his pants down in the parking lot of a seedy Southern bar. Not that he didn’t deserve it—the creep was trying to rape Thelma (Geena Davis), and Louise (Susan Sarandon) did offer him a warning before firing the fatal shot. Louise knew better than to go to the cops, though: There isn’t often justice for female vigilantes. So she and Thelma jumped in their green ’66 Ford Thunderbird and hit the road. Along the way—they were headed to Mexico, but not, as per Louise’s request, by way of Texas—these ladies on the lam got screwed, literally and figuratively, by a gorgeous con man (Brad Pitt), took to robbing convenience stores, and forged a friendship that went down in cinematic history. And they did it all outfitted in the only gear befitting such an adventure—cowboy boots, T-shirts, and, of course, jeans. 5 6 7 8 private icon: thelma and louise 1. scarf by fox, $10; 2. jacket (customized into a vest) by levi’s, approximately. $58; 3. skirt by legend peek-a-boo, $150; 4. t-shirt by guess by marciano, $32; 5. the bad girl’s guide to the open road by cameron tuttle and susannah bettag (publisher chronicle books); 6. stetson orginal cologne, $26.50 for 3.5 oz; 7. jeans by diesel, $250; 8. boot by frye, $188. still lifes: chika kobari. thelma and louise courtesy: mgm/everett collection.
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