WilsonDukeofLizards
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I was watching Raiders of the Lost Ark recently (for the nth time...) and got to thinking about Indy's jacket. I've owned a couple of Wested Indy jackets (both times Temple jackets - they were fine but I've moved on...) and it seems like the real jacket that it most closely resembles is a knit-less AN-J-3 (strong A2 vibes with a G-1 back).
But, if Indy were a real person, what intermediate weight leather jacket would he actually have worn?
The original trilogy is set in the mid 1930s (Raiders 1936, Temple 1935, Last Crusade 1938*). Indy's jacket is pretty beat up by the time it appears on screen so he would have had it for a number of years. Let's say he bought it in the late 1920s/early 1930s. The early A2s were just starting to be available but what would our favourite field archeologist actually have been able to buy? Maybe an A1?
Cheers,
Steve
*For now ignore the opening bit set in 1912 where a young Indy comes across a treasure hunter in a fedora and an Indy-type jacket.
But, if Indy were a real person, what intermediate weight leather jacket would he actually have worn?
The original trilogy is set in the mid 1930s (Raiders 1936, Temple 1935, Last Crusade 1938*). Indy's jacket is pretty beat up by the time it appears on screen so he would have had it for a number of years. Let's say he bought it in the late 1920s/early 1930s. The early A2s were just starting to be available but what would our favourite field archeologist actually have been able to buy? Maybe an A1?
Cheers,
Steve
*For now ignore the opening bit set in 1912 where a young Indy comes across a treasure hunter in a fedora and an Indy-type jacket.
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