How To Buy A Leather Jacket

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only a person lacking confidence and brains

...and stones...

would rely upon a dishrag like GQ for opinions on anything.

These are stones, GQ readers. Have some.

 

[John Lever]

I think Stuart [Clurman] is right here when he says ' never in fashion never out of fashion '

 

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Yup. Style without fashion is like steak without ketchup.

 

[Peter Graham]

Yup. Style without fashion is like steak without ketchup.

eh ? :?

 

[hacker]

Yup. Style without fashion is like steak without ketchup.

eh ? :?

New Yorker's don't do ketchup...not on steak!

 

[Peter Graham]

Yup. Style without fashion is like steak without ketchup.

eh ? :?

New Yorker's don't do ketchup...not on steak!

Ah, I get it. Style without fashion is good, as is steak without ketchup......or something !

 

[Who]

August 2008 issue of GQ ( Gentleman's Quarterly) has an article on "How To Buy A Leather jacket ( And Not Look Like A Joke)"
Typical GQ article about wearing a jacket, even mentions thin hides, and washing a jacket in a machine with laundry detergent...
it's not a stellar article- don't buy the issue, read it at the news stand instead...it doesn't pertain to OUR type of jackets, just the "meterosexual" brands like Diesel, Belstaff, Duckie Brown, Burberry and so on....
anyway, the amusing part I saw was an insert box that had the points of "How Not To Buy A Leather jacket"...
Here is what they say;
1)You are not Indiana Jones; leave the distressed brown leather bomber jackets to Harrison Ford
2) And on that note, those World War II tobacco-brown replica bombardier jackets? Absolutely not.
3) No patches
4)Leather jacket, good; leather blazer, not so good.
5) Unless you just climbed off a Ducati, please refrain from padded, striped racing jackets.
6) Zippers, yes; buttons, no.
7) And remember, you're not buying a leather coat, you're buying a leather jacket. It should fit like one. See above left.
( model shown is a very thin male wearing a skin tight thin leather jacket, black, with sleeves only to the mid forearm.)

So, there you have it, the GQ guidelines for buying and wearing a leather jacket. A-2's are OUT, brown leather is OUT, nametags and squadron patches are OUT, and an A-1 with buttons? No way! :lol:
-B

They may have a point about some of the bad A2 repos - especially the 1980's ones which were all puffy. Yuk. Other than that, they can go kiss my arse. There's no eidence here that they have even seen a real leather jacket before.

 

[Chandler]

New Yorker's don't do ketchup...not on steak!

Who does? Yech.

Chandler