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Famous People in Flight Jackets
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Here's CDR Steve McGarrett-- the orignal McGarrett -- (a SWO reserve in this episode no less), rocking a G-1 while underway on a small boy. Just like we di in the 80s!
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Jordan Bolger (who some Loungers will also have seen as Isaiah Jesus in Peaky Blinders, also written by Stephen Knight) in This Town, currently running on the BBC. Bolger wears this distinctive civlianised B3 in character in the show. I'd put money on it being either an Aero or an Eastman. It echoes the similarly distinctive Aero B3 seen in Masters of the Air recently, but with the addition of civilian style handwarmer pockets. I remember something like this being a standard offering in the old "Aero USA" days, circa 2008.
I certainly doubt that's it's the $150 special being offered on the website I found these screengrabs on.... (they don't, funnily enough, carry a photo of their own product).
This Town is set in 1981, and tells the interlinking stories of kids no the burgeoning two-tone scene there. The sense of period overall is very well done, particularly (but not only) in the wardrobe. All the genuine bleakness of early eighties Britain. Bolger plays a Sergeant in the British Army - on active duty in Belfast when we first meet him, but soon back home in Birmingham. Sort of young man who would have built up the disposable cash to pick up an expensive jacket. It caught my eye because I know exactly what it is. I'm not sure that a replica like this was technically available in 81, but they've blended it in very well to create a believable period look.
I certainly doubt that's it's the $150 special being offered on the website I found these screengrabs on.... (they don't, funnily enough, carry a photo of their own product).
This Town is set in 1981, and tells the interlinking stories of kids no the burgeoning two-tone scene there. The sense of period overall is very well done, particularly (but not only) in the wardrobe. All the genuine bleakness of early eighties Britain. Bolger plays a Sergeant in the British Army - on active duty in Belfast when we first meet him, but soon back home in Birmingham. Sort of young man who would have built up the disposable cash to pick up an expensive jacket. It caught my eye because I know exactly what it is. I'm not sure that a replica like this was technically available in 81, but they've blended it in very well to create a believable period look.
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Yupp, Aero have just confirmed that they indeed provided the jacket (i.a.) for the movie...
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aha! That was my main hunch. Nice to have it confirmed!
It looks very cool. I do love my B3 & Irvin. The B3 has the distinct advantage that the map pocket is somewhere to stow a pair of gloves when I step inside. I've always been halfway tempted, though, by a B3 with B6 style pockets... a deviation from milspec, but could be practical! Black sheepskin would be nice too....
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Not so much a famous person as a famous painting with a famous jacket, apparently in the Norman Rockwell museum in Stockbridge, Mass (photos spotted on twitter).
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MA-1 is a cool and comfortable jacket
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Was the must have counter culture jacket when i was in hs late 80s early 90s. Black only
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She's not famous by the standards of this thread, I suppose, but whatevs. The black jacket is obviously one of Schott's nylon CWU jackets, the green one I'm not sure, maybe Schott or Rothco.
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The MA1 is the second flight jacket that Steve Macqueen gave the cool factor for me. As a rule, my interest in flight jackets (as with clothing more generally) stops in just about 1959, but the later, orange-liner MA1s hold a bit of intrigue for me largely because of The Hunter. I remember when originals were constantly available in our local army surplus place, many of them in almost 'unissued' condition, for £25. Well into the mid-90s, that's £50 in today's money. Sometimes wish I'd bought one then, though obviously it'd be too wee for me by at least twenty years ago now...
I remember seeing them regularly worn on the streets of Belfast in the 80s. Originally skin heads, in the green ones, which carried that 'edge' of association with the far right as a result (yeah #notallskins, but it was the Romper Stomper types that we heard of and saw back then....). The black ones were bouncer wear from way back. (I remember a docusoap of about twenty years ago, bouncers i England this time, places like Clacton where it got well hairy. Showed one guy who talked about buying them two sizes big to make him look bigger and more intimidating. Psychological warfare.) I have a distinct memory of black jackets in the generic MA1 style (though obviously to my educated eye now, "wrong" - cheap and nasty imitations without the details) becoming very fashionable among pop music followers in our part of Ireland around 1988/89. I think it was maybe Bros that popularised them? The boys tended to wear them 'plain', the girls wore then with a (really low quality, clearly none of them were legitimate merchandise) screen print on the back of Bros, or Kylie Minogue (in her original, SAW era) or similar on the back. Not jackets we'd recognise as true MA1 style now, but back then they were all lumped together in that generic "bomber jacket" bracket. A brief fashion moment that lasted about as long as Bros' pop stardom. In retrospect, reminiscent of the Deely Bopper craze on the Summer of 1982... Didn't see anyone I knew in an MA1 after that until about 1995 when an old schoolfriend, now at another university, discovered the Redskins and got into the skinhead look a bit. He had a legit USAF surplus jacket, bought for £25 in said army surplus place in Belfast, with the olive shell and the orange liner. No idea what brand it was. I remember though thinking it looked pretty good, probably the first time I looked positively on an MA1. Maybe I'll at some point pick up one of the Simons ones that seem nice now, though after I've replaced my old B15C. The blue is easier to wear with my wardrobe, and less prone to raise eyebrows. Being a shaved head sort, I've been taken for a skin before by a very friendly (if unintentionally quite scary) bunch of Millwall fans in a London pub. WE did have a brief conversation about the Specials, tho.
