Pilots Need Clothes, Too

On the topic of Web surfing, and the strange things one finds... well, this isn't very strange, I just got there by an unexpected route.

I was shopping for more of my favorite brand of shirt, Van Heusen, and not doing a very good job of it--could only seem to find wrinkled used shirts from underprivileged people who didn't want them anymore and were marketing them on Craigslist-like services--when I stumbled upon a cut of shirt that they called the "captain's shirt."

Immediately I thought of nautical themes but they meant pilots.  I found that out by a related link that took me to pilotshop.com.  Bored, I spent a few minutes poking around all the clothes and accoutrement a pilot might want.

Curious still, I searched for related websites and found mypilotstore.com and pilotshangout.com.  An entire market that had slipped beneath my radar.  Totally makes sense that they'd exist, of course, but I never ever would have found these on my own.  Directly, anyway.  As it happened I found them while shopping online for dress shirts.