nick123
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It’s a wacky place!
I love it though. Maybe my favorite place in SoCal. I work there too. If you run into me I refuse to allow you to call me a millenial.
It’s a wacky place!
Agreed. From what I have observed, this interest is fairly age-independent.My dad is a baby boomer. Be couldn’t give a rats ass about leather jackets and vintage style.
Most people i work with are gen x’ers. They couldn’t give a rats ass about leather jackets and vintage style.
I don’t know any personally but i assume some millenials do care about leather jackets and vintage style. Dudewhattheheck takes the time to maintain a blog about it.
Generalizing about people based on their age is boring.
I hope I'm correct in saying that the leather biker jacket is an American icon made most popular by the Brando, McQueen, and James Dean imagery. It was associated with counterculture and misfits potentially looking for trouble (biker gangs of the 60's and '70's). The look will always be to popular to many, trendy to others, and unnoticed by some. Nothing is more flattering than someone complimenting you on your style or noting the great vintage jacket your wearing.
What’s funny to me is the icons of the look the young Dean, and Brando, in music The Ramones and Springsteen. Not that Bruce or the surviving Ramones are young now but the classic photos of them they were all going guys. Throw a young Joan Jett in the mix as well for the female look. Again young and rebellious. But getting a custom made or really nice vintage score is super expensive for a lot of people, let alone the young. For as much as it’s become an icon for the young and rebellious a real not some “cheap mall” jacket is really unattainable for 90% of the young people. So To piggyback on a lot of comments here I don’t know if it’s necessarily a generational thing, or culture change thing as much as it is a cost thing. Some people under 40 can afford it but overwhelming majority can’t. And as time marches on there are less and less surviving thrift or unknowledgable folks cleaning out dads closet and throwing up the leather jacket on eBay for next to nothing. So that Avenue shrinks all the time. Which is why TFL has a lot of over 40 members I imagine, guys who couldn’t when they were young and now have good jobs or are retired and can buy all the things they couldn’t when younger.
The jacket hobby is about to get REAL expensive. 9,000 cups of coffee later...I was at the Peet’s coffee near my house a couple months ago in the morning and an attractive young barista complimented me on my leather jacket. That day I happened to be wearing my Langlitz Columbia and I was a bit surprised that she noticed and appreciated it because it is not particularly flashy or noteworthy to most people. The next day I went in there wearing my Langlitz Cascade and I was shocked and delighted when she said “oh wow, that’s a different really nice leather jacket you have on today”.
I think what miglan30 said is correct and there are not many people of any age group who appreciate or care much about leather jackets. That’s why it always is a nice surprise when we come across one of them.