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A bit of levity.... what jacket is this...?

dan_t

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Arnie has recently been signed up to promote an Australian real estate website. No I am not affiliated with it in any way.
He wears what appears to be a very solid hide jacket throughout the series of spoof-like commercials & I was wondering what it was.
At first, I though it could be an Aero goat zip sleeve highwayman. Then I noticed the distinct half belt & seam (yoke?) toward the upper back.

What are your guesses?

I have taken these screen shots from their advert;

Jacket 1.jpg

Jacket 2.jpg

Jacket 3.jpg

Jacket 4.jpg
 

Bunyip

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A very big one?
I was actually thinking the same thing the other day when I saw the ad. It looks like it could be a highway man?
 

dan_t

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It also has zip hand warmer pockets & circular shaped pulls for the chest pockets. If it were an Areo, these would likely be diamond shaped talon pulls.
I'm thinking that the half belt and upper yoke rule it out for a highwayman.
 

Seb Lucas

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Annoying ad. Doesn't he wear this jacket in a recent film? Looks like a Tony Nowak - may not be, but Arnold was a good mate and bought a lot of jackets from Nowak when Nowak was still living.
 
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Cool jacket! I don't think it's Aero, shoulder to sleeve stitching is done differently. Plus they'd use their ball-and-chain pulls by default, I think. The zippers on the sleeves look like Talon to me?
 
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Don Tomaso, true. :D Although, what are the chances of mr. Schwarzenegger specifically asking for chain pulls instead of the HWM standard pulls? lol
 

Don Tomaso

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Well, the guy is even promoting his own line of watches. Ugly pieces, mind you, but meybe he even knows about zippers. You never know. :D
 

Edward

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Cool jacket! I don't think it's Aero, shoulder to sleeve stitching is done differently. Plus they'd use their ball-and-chain pulls by default, I think. The zippers on the sleeves look like Talon to me?

Yes, that was one of the things I looked for. Overall, in the small images it has the boxier fit of a jacket like a HWM, but it doesn't look like it is. Looks to me like someboy else's variant on a halfbelt. Much roomier fit than I'd consdier desirable in a halfbelt, but that may be just preference (I doubt Arnie's shooting for an acurate vintag style, exactly), or perhaps he's happy with an off-the-peg pattern, and had to go a bit larger to fit his shoulders in (which appear wider than the average still). If Nowak was a pal and he has worn a lot of jackets from him in the past, it seems likely it's one of those.
 

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