If “Rawhide” made Clint Eastwood famous, then Sergio Leone’s “The Dollars Trilogy,” made up of “A Fistful of Dollars,” “For a Few Dollars More,” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” made him a megastar. Portraying the “Man with No Name,” a quickdraw expert with a steel-cold gaze, Eastwood’s outfit, a wide-brimmed fedora with an alpha poncho, which to this day is still taken as inspiration for men’s fashion by outlets such as GQ.
Eastwood wore the same iconic poncho in all three “Dollars” films, and, despite weeks of filming in the dust and heat to make the trilogy, it was never washed in between takes, or even between movies, for fear that it would damage the garment. Clintwood still owns the poncho to this day, though he told Entertainment Today in the 2000s: “It was folded up after ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ and it hasn’t been unfolded yet.” More recently, he has claimed the poncho is protected by glass, and it still remains unwashed (via The Daily Mail).
