Tatooine Chic

"It was a vast, shining globe and it cast a light of lambent topaz into space—but it was not a sun. Thus, the planet had fooled men for a long time. Not until entering close orbit around it did its discoverers realize that this was a world in a binary system and not a third sun itself.

At first it seemed certain nothing could exist on such a planet, least of all humans. Yet both massive G1 and G2 stars orbited a common center with peculiar regularity, and Tatooine circled them far enough out to permit the development of a rather stable, if exquisitely hot, climate. Mostly this was a dry desert of a world, whose unusual starlike yellow glow was the result of double sunlight striking sodium-rich sands and flats. []

It was an old settlers' saying that you could burn your eyes out faster by staring straight and hard at the sun-scorched flatlands of Tatooine than by looking directly at its two huge suns themselves, so powerful was the penetrating glare reflected from those endless wastes."

-George Lucas/Alan Dean Foster, "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker"

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"In December 1976, Ballantine Books published a paperback novel called <Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker>. The book was ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster from my screenplay of the film. The cover painting was a piece of early conceptual art by Ralph McQuarrie. In small type on the back cover were the words <Soon to be a spectacular motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox>. The world's first glimpse of Star Wars happened with little fanfare, and this first edition of the novel sold modestly."

George Lucas

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We always thought about Tatooine as pretty much the middle of nowhere.

But with the presence of the Hutts, so, a conspicuous amount of money flowing, and the opportunity of many (shady) jobs paid well, its cantinas and its gambling, it is hard to not imagine some forms of rich and, in a way, classy subculture for it.

So, when I saw this beautiful tote bag by @afanofshop, my imagination was filled with a Rodeo-Drive-sorta Mos Espa district, and I couldn't help but having myself a glimpse of that "smuggler-posh" flair.