Achieving the Indiana Jones look...without looking in costume??

[J.W.]

A tuned down version would be MacGyver in season 1.

 

[Fifty150]

I'm not a big fan of the purse.

 

[J.W.]

It's not a purse!

 

[St. Valentine]

I wear a brown A-2 and a Fedora most of the time but found out it´s the hat and only the hat. No matter what kind of hat I wear or what kind of jacket I get the "Indy" comment all the time. Don´t know if I would go as far as khakis and a brown fedora but it doesn´t seem to matter anyway. People have no idea about classic clothing... [huh]

Frank

 

[Fifty150]

If you only wore a leather jacket, people would just say that you looked like Tom Cruise in Top Gun.

 

[scottyrocks]

I don't know. Leather jackets are so ubiquitous I can't see that connection being made with any sort of regularity.

 

[Edward]

I don't know. Leather jackets are so ubiquitous I can't see that connection being made with any sort of regularity.

A fully patched A2 wouls likely draw Top Gun comments.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

The "Jones" look is (my opinion) great for a movie character. Have to admit, if I observed anyone running around my neighborhood sporting a whip and pistol, they would have a quick trip to the County lock up.

 

[1961MJS]

A fully patched A2 wouls likely draw Top Gun comments.

Hi Edward, an A2 would draw Top Gun comments (maybe, it's a 25 year old movie). Of course you realize that the A2 is USAF or USAAF and Top Gun is a Navy movie, they wear G-1's. Here in Kansas, I don't worry about the gun, it's the weirdo with the whip that's scary.

Later Y'all

 

[Fifty150]

XXX amount of years ago, anyone wearing a leather jacket would have gotten "Fonzie". Leather pants? Maybe Al Pacino in "Cruising".

 

[samtemporary]

I constantly get the "Dr. Jones" comments when I post my pics wearing a suit and fedora on Facebook. Must be the glasses...

 

[WideBrimm]

The Indiana Jones look is a great style. As an everyday style, it should probably be limited to coat and hat, with attitude As has been said in this forum many times, a guy should own the look
I often go around wearing a brown jacket and official wool Indiana Jones hat (a thrift store bargain) and nobody comments on it. Must be my beard!

 

[jlee562]

It's not a purse!

It's a satchel!

I actually have the Indy satchel and carry it daily. It's utilitarian!

As far as the Indy look:

(ironically, no satchel)

 

[Fifty150]

I got a hat like that from Daiso in Japantown. I think my girlfriend paid $1.50 for it.

 

[Edward]

Hi Edward, an A2 would draw Top Gun comments (maybe, it's a 25 year old movie). Of course you realize that the A2 is USAF or USAAF and Top Gun is a Navy movie, they wear G-1's.

Sure, but to the average person on the street they're the same thing. My AN6552 (effectively the same thing as a G1) has been referred to as "an Indy jacket" more than once. Most people don't see the difference, just a brown leather bomber jacket with patches on it. Especially outside the US.

 

[scottyrocks]

Most people, in some way or another, are copying a look they've seen elsewhere, whether it's from a movie, a sport or sport celebrity, or some fashion 'expert' who decides that brown paper shopping bags are the new 'in' thing to wear to your next cocktail party (or Walmart).

I will say that copying any look 100%-to-the-nines is not the way I go. I like to mix and match stuff that looks good together in my eyes without looking like I just stepped off the movie screen.

 

[Fifty150]

I like the Jack Burton look.

 

[scottyrocks]

Interestingly enough, I was wearing epauleted shirts since I was a teenager when military garb was in fashion. I still have my uncle's 1960's M65 field jacket. He gave it to me when I was about 12 (1972). It was big on me but I wore it anyway. I still wear it.

I started to wear fedoras when I was in my twenties, and at some point, put an epauleted shirt together with a fedora. Seemed like a natural thing to do.

 

[CSG]

I've worn khaki and olive drab field/uniform type shirts for well over 30 years. I wear them with jeans or khaki or olive drab pants but never khaki with khaki. This look started for me when I was a cop as a younger man (our uniform was khaki shirt and dark green pants) and I just felt more comfortable in uniform type clothing. For business, it was always dark traditional suits and the whole banker look but casual wear has revolved around that military, park ranger look for decades. The only time I've ever gotten an Indy comment is when I wear my brown wool crusher fedora that every outdoor store sells.

Last year, I was on vacation at Yellowstone with one of my sons and dressed in a khaki shirt, olive drab slacks, wearing that hat, using a collapsible hiking staff, and wearing a small lumbar pack. We were hiking on the boardwalk trail at Old Faithful and I was stopped by fellow tourists on two occasions who mistook me for a park ranger. My son still ribs me about it and my closet which has close to a dozen khaki and olive drab dual flap pocket shirts.

As much as I like this traditional outdoor type of dress, I try to avoid looking like a Hollywood actor in a movie role.

 

[Rick Blaine]

Interestingly enough, I was wearing epauleted shirts since I was a teenager when military garb was in fashion. I still have my uncle's 1960's M65 field jacket. He gave it to me when I was about 12 (1972). It was big on me but I wore it anyway. I still wear it.

I started to wear fedoras when I was in my twenties, and at some point, put an epauleted shirt together with a fedora. Seemed like a natural thing to do.

You & I are from the same era. I always wore surplus 'cause it was cheaper & I was a working class hero/University student.
I grew up sleeping under (scratchy!) US ARMY wool blankets when my Da' was a poor Grad student.
Service clothing always seemed well made & designed -practical & utilitarian... & cheap. I wore my Da's cotton service shirt from Korea until it was literally in threads.
I've been in hats since the 7o's when we could pick 'em up at the thrift store for a few bucks, we never paid attention to maker, model, brim or bash, we just used 'em & abused them, forgot 'em & lost them on the river or a concert or party, gave away to a girl, used 'em to unscrew a hot radiator cap (true) trashed 'em them & treated them like the highly available low cost item they were at the time.

Talk about youth wasted on the young!