Any Baracuta/G9/Harrington fans?

[Salv]

Salv... they're not an accurate Dean looky-likey, no - more 'in the style of' than anything. Still, at that price....! The Dean jacket has always intrigued me - I'd love to see an accurate repro just to see what it was like.

The official James Dean site has a jacket for sale for $77.95, which is very close except that it's cotton, rather than nylon, and looks a little baggier than the original:

There's a Dean jacket thread with some excellent research by a poster called smsstuart who seems to have joined the FL just to post on that thread. I found this scan of an advert for the Anti-Freeze jacket and posted it on that thread:

Comparisons with the Rebel stills on the JD site show it's the same jacket.

Now all someone has to do is find a warehouse full of deadstock red Anti-Freezes and they're laughing.

 

[ChuckO]

There a McGregor Anti-freeze on ebay for $17 in grey. Based on the photos of that one I'll keep pretending it's a Harrington.

I don't think in the million times I've seen that movie I ever picked up that it was a nylon jacket.

 

[Marty M.]

Thanks Salv

Salv, I just read your thread "McGregor Drizzler or Baracuta G9" from Feb. '06.
That's a great post. A lot of information about the two coats. Thanks for the education.
Marty Mathis

 

[ChuckO]

The Drizzler looks like the "inspiration" for the windbreaker Polo sells. I just went to the Polo sight to find a picture of it and instead found they are selling a version of a Baracuda called a Baracuda.

Yep the Polo by Ralph Lauren Core Bi-Swing Windbreaker looks just like a Drizzler. See it here:

http://www.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=138727&PartnerID=FROOGLE&BannerID=PD562

 

[Salv]

There a McGregor Anti-freeze on ebay for $17 in grey. Based on the photos of that one I'll keep pretending it's a Harrington.

I don't think in the million times I've seen that movie I ever picked up that it was a nylon jacket.

I really need to check eBay more regularly ... just about my size too. Can nylon be dyed?

There's a Sears Antifreeze copy as well, in red, but too small! It will be interesting to see how high that goes.

I know what you mean about not spotting it as nylon in the movie. Doesn't Dean only wear the jacket in night time scenes? I'm sure we don't really get to see light reflecting off it enough to pick up the shiny finish of the fabric.

 

[Salv]

Salv, I just read your thread "McGregor Drizzler or Baracuta G9" from Feb. '06.
That's a great post. A lot of information about the two coats. Thanks for the education.
Marty Mathis

You're welcome Marty, glad you found it useful.

 

[Edward]

Salv, love those ads..... the jacket on the dean website, while not so screen-accurate is cetainly a good looking jacket, I could quite go for one of those maybe next time I'm looking for a red.... it'd be hard to walk past my cheap "Harrington" again, though, at the much lower price. I love these jackets with jeans and engineer boots or retro sneakers - makes a nice change from the leather sometimes.

ChuckO... for years, I had written off Rebel... as inferior to The Wild One; I must give it another go now, there's so much more to it that I had missed back in the day.

 

[ChuckO]

Edward - Wild Ones is definitely a more grown-up take on similar material. The characters seem to be post-high school as opposed to 'Rebels' High School kids. Both are great movies. They'd be a good double feature if you were interested in "vegging" out in front of the TV as we say in the US. I have to get Quadrophenia. I still haven't seen that.

One thing I noticed looking around the web for windbreakers is we seem to be getting away from the drippy hippy clothes (flared jeans - I hate 'em) and back to more fitted stuff in terms of the mass market. It'll be good not to have to work so hard to find good stuff and to replace some worn favorites.

 

[Edward]

You're tellin' me. I loathe flares more I think than any other item of clothing there is. Ceptin' maybe a shell suit, of course. I had friends in hysterics on NYE when I kicked off about how jeans vendors keep trying to sell me "bootleg" jeans; those aren't jeans design for wearing with boots, they're stealth flares!! :rage:

lol

Quadrophenia isn't a bad film, I enjoyed it well enough though I could never love it the way I would The Wild One. I love me some sharp tailoring, but there was always something that just didn't sit right with me about the whole mod thing. Guess it's the punk in me? [huh]

 

[ChuckO]

Edward,
Ha! Are you a Pistols or a Clash Man? I'm assuming not a Jam fan.

Yea, jeans should be tightish around your boots. Look at Clint in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" or Brando in "Wild Ones"

 

[Edward]

Heh. I discovered the Pistols first, but I'm a big fan of the Clash too. The Jam.... actually, I really liked a lot of their stuff too. The Paul Weller that [political content excised] and was responsible for those awful Style council and solo records, who epitomises everything I once thought the Jam stood against, I refuse to recognise as the same man who wrote those pop classics.... Yeah, musically the Jam were spot on, I just dislike the 60s-worship I associate with the mod revivalists that they attracted (even if ironically I like a lot of the sixties bands).

"If the kids are united," and all that! lol

 

[ChuckO]

I love all three of those bands and they all dressed cool too. Although I like the later Clash clothes more than the early stuff. When they got more into the military and 50's stuff. I like what Strummer said in "Westway to the world" about getting out of flared trousers of the hippy days and into the flash, trim punk clothes because you were going somewhere. Or something like that.

Oh yeah. Paul Simonon (sp?) was the coolest dresser in punk.

Hey, are you a Doc Marten fan? Do you know anything about them. The last pair I bought were made in China and they were awful. I couldn't wear them so I've been making do with a previous pair. I'd like to buy some new ones but I'm afraid after that last pair.

 

[Salv]

That Sears Antifreeze copy I mentioned a few days went for $102.50. Anybody here nab it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150201556183&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123

 

[Edward]

Hey, are you a Doc Marten fan? Do you know anything about them. The last pair I bought were made in China and they were awful. I couldn't wear them so I've been making do with a previous pair. I'd like to buy some new ones but I'm afraid after that last pair.

Just chanced across this thread again and saw this post.... It's been years since I last bought a pair of DMs, as I much prefer a leather sole nowadays. That said, I've had a pair of DM safety shoes (surplus Royal Mail uniform) that I bought for a tenner about six years ago. All black leather, internal steel toecaps - great for kicking around, and very comfy. I think if memory serves all production was moved to China about ten years ago - apart from maybe occasional specialist lines? From what I see of them in shops, I haven't noticed any drop off in quality since they moved, though I don't know how they wear.

 

[H.Johnson]

I have just bought an original Barracuta G8 in a charity shop for less than 4GBP!

There is a thread elsewhere on the manufacture of 'classic' DMs returning to Northamptonshire. I've seen the 'new' ones - they are just as good as they always were.

 

[Edward]

That's quite a score! I presume they weren't aware that there was anything significant about it as compared to any similar-design, run of the mill anorak. [huh] It'd be interesting to see one of those side by side with the cheaper alternatives for a direct comparison. (I'd presume yours will be all-cotton, as opposed to polycotton mix, and have a slightly better grade of lining; those would seem the obvious differences).

 

[BigHairyFinn]

Well, my "XXL" harrington is worn by my nephew as the bloody limeys can't do their sizes right - selling a 46 as an XXL which is 50 is bloody offensive to the fat gits. For a fat geezer like me you only get the swishy washy ma-1 jackets that then require boots and braces... nix gut. I'm half inclined to try a tanker off some repro Germans they say is a german 60 usually is a 50... Would love to find a B-15 that wasn't wishy-washy that actually fit... or even a repro WEP of canvas nylon like the old ones, not wishy-washy shiney tracksuit stuff...

 

[Edward]

Tey do tend to be sized small. I'm only a 42/44, and that is typically an XL in Harrington-types. That's the biggest reason i hate S,M,L type sizing: without me changing at all, I am a medium, large, and XL depending on manufacturer / design, which makes buying anything for the first time via mail impossible if there's no measurements given. It's so relative that I do have to wonder why they bother....

 

[john z]

Check out the the Baracuta Warehouse Sale for slimfit G9s at half price. Tempted by the Brazilian red myself.

http://www.baracuta-g9.com/v2/shop/view_product.php?id=282

 

[icecold]

What is considered to be THE classic color - if any - for G-9 Baracuta?
Elvis wears some light-color, the mods go with black, etc...