Roll up a jacket?

[TrainDriver]

I’m wanting to carry my A2 with me on the train, and the easiest way to have easy access to it would be rolled up and strapped to the outside of my bag like the picture.

Would this be advisable? Would it crease? Would it mess up the collar?
I don’t want to make it my regular work jacket, but I’m at work much more often then I’m at home. I want to break it in some, but not abuse it.

 

[B-Man2]

You can’t hurt these jackets . Roll it up , use it for a pillow, pack it in the bag , wear it in the rain… wrinkle it up …it’s all going to make the jacket look better over the years .

 

[TrainDriver]

You can’t hurt these jackets . Roll it up , use it for a pillow, pack it in the bag , wear it in the rain… wrinkle it up …it’s all going to make the jacket look better over the years .

I’m a railroader. We routinely destroy the interiors of 200 ton, $2M chunks of steel. A jacket is child’s play!

 

[B-Man2]

Well I assumed that you weren’t going to be wearing it to destroy $2million chunks of steel and I’m sure the railroad provides some type of safety garb for doing just that.
The jacket was made for flying not for steel work or dragging it across metal shards . Your question was simply about would it crease if you rolled it up .

 

[TrainDriver]

Well I assumed that you weren’t going to be wearing it to destroy $2million chunks of steel and I’m sure the railroad provides some type of safety garb for doing just that.
The jacket was made for flying not for steel work or dragging it across metal shards . Your question was simply about would it crease if you rolled it up .

I wasn’t impugning your response. I was trying to be self-deprecating more than anything. Guess it doesn’t come across the screen as well as it did in my mind.
Your response was the type of info I was looking for.

 

[B-Man2]

I wasn’t impugning your response. I was trying to be self-deprecating more than anything. Guess it doesn’t come across the screen as well as it did in my mind.
Your response was the type of info I was looking for.

No offense taken …. You sound like you’ve got an Interesting job. Just for conversation I don’t cut my jackets any slack. I roll them in a ball throw them in a corner or on a bed .
The wrinkles will fall out or add character to your jacket .

 

[Silver Surfer]

A buddy of mine who is in construction, takes his a-2 to work, and makes a wad out of it to sit on when he has work to do while low to the ground. No mercy

 

[TrainDriver]

No offense taken …. You sound like you’ve got an Interesting job. Just for conversation I don’t cut my jackets any slack. I roll them in a ball throw them in a corner or on a bed .
The wrinkles will fall out or add character to your jacket .

It’s just driving trains. But for some reason, we’re a very destructive group. A brand new locomotive will have boot prints on the wall, broken knobs or levers, and all sorts of political ramblings written on the toilet room wall within 3 months. Apparently we were all raised in a barn.

 

[TrainDriver]

A buddy of mine who is in construction, takes his a-2 to work, and makes a wad out of it to sit on when he has work to do while low to the ground. No mercy

I don’t want to be rough on it. I do have some investment, however small, in it.

 

[Micawber]

Rolled up as per your photo will be fine, just don’t catch or scrape it on any sharp objects.

 

[TrainDriver]

I hope y’all are right…

 

[B-Man2]

I hope y’all are right…
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It’s just a jacket.

Wrinkles with give it more character.
( Oh I said that already )
Believe me in a year from now you’ll be throwing in the back seat of your car .
Using it as a pillow.
Working on your car in it.
Wrestling with the dog in it .
Wrestling with your wife it in … oops TMI…

 

[B-Man2]

Here….. I’m not just blown smoke when I tell you to just treat em like a flight jacket .