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#1 2012-04-08 11:54:56

Leer R.
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Varsity jackets - hot or not?

 

#2 2012-04-08 12:46:06

weekender
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

The only college memorabilia acceptable is from a college you actually attended. Everything else is just higly embarassing.

 

#3 2012-04-08 12:52:29

Oo Bop Sh'bam
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?


''If I can't share my faith in Christ here, I'd just as soon not have to put up with people advocating drug use.''

 

#4 2012-04-08 14:28:40

Goodyear welt
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

Sorry Leer but its a Bit Grease lighting init bro. My hommee looking bad in his muther though. You white kids need to get down wid it a bit more. Less trad, more hip.

Trendy????? I ain't seen no one in my hood in one.

Last edited by Goodyear welt (2012-04-08 14:30:31)


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#5 2012-04-08 17:26:56

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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

Very classic Americana Leer. Used to own an old beaten up Avirex years ago. Yes, they are very in style at the moment.
Not mod enough for this crowd though Bro.
Next time try a fishtail...

 

#6 2012-04-08 17:31:06

woofboxer
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?


'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'. 
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#7 2012-04-08 20:18:03

Oliver
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

I really dig the homerun jacket by Gant but no way I'd spend anywhere near $600 on a damn varsity... I used to sport a generic red/white wool and leather combo with my initials to school as a teenager.

 

#8 2012-04-08 23:36:44

Leer R.
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

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#9 2012-04-08 23:41:55

Leer R.
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

P.S.: I see, Oliver meant the Homerun jacket - this is even much nicer than the Rugger... I like that, too. Nice. Mucho to much money.

 

#10 2012-04-09 01:52:12

Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?


“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"

 

#11 2012-04-09 03:43:47

Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

The letterman versions might be too far teenage territory (or "cheerleader" stuff, as Jimbo said)...

However, I would not have worn them as a teenager for personal reasons. In the small town where I used to go to school, they were associated with the "psychobilly" cult.

Psychobillies (or short Billies or Psychs, often mispronounced with a "p" over here in Germany) would wear these college or baseball jackets and jeans with high turn-ups, their haircuts were flat-tops or quiffs with the rest of head shaved closely. Music was a mixture of rockabilly and punk rock, the most popular group The Meteors, named after a Memphis rockabilly label. Somehow the cult was also associated with b-movies, especially horror, sci-fi and splatter stuff, they were always violent and they did some sort of brutal pogo dance that involved hitting people with their elbows, and in my town they were also extremely right wing/ Neo-Nazi scum... and as my best friend was a Turkish guy, I didn't like them.

Vintage American cars were also very popular, if I recall correctly the "leader" of the gang in my town used to drive a Ford Mustang, always a baseball bat on the back seat. There was only a handful of these psychobillies in my town, but in the next big town, in Koblenz, there were much more, a plague like rats. One of my friends was beaten up by this gang and had to go to hospital with broken rips and lost a few teeth. In Koblenz they always had grey jackets with white leather sleeves, and they were all sporting belts with a stars and bars buckle. Apart from the obvious crossover with the teddy boy/ rockabilly/ 50s scene, there was also a crossover with rightwing skinheads and scooter boys, and for some reason people in the EBM scene (80s electro sounds from Belgium such as Front 242) were also sporting a similar look.

To be fair, the psychobilly guys nowadays here in Bonn/ NRW, it seems, don't have to anything to do with this. They're more fun, they like stuff from Norton records or from Lightnin' Beat-Man's Voodoo Rhythm label, and I haven't witnessed xenophobia.


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#12 2012-04-09 04:52:54

Taylor McIntyre
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#13 2012-04-09 05:00:19

Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

 

#14 2012-04-09 05:08:20

Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

Last edited by Hard Bop Hank (2012-04-09 05:08:54)


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"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"

 

#15 2012-04-09 05:24:29

Thee Beatnik
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

That is a lovely jacket... I may be tempted...

 

#16 2012-04-09 05:31:20

Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

That Golden Bear suede jacket was completely different, but really lovely as well. I think it was a zipper jacket, not with press studs, and with a little shawl collar.

Gary found something similar in Buenos Aires. I'll check later on his blog...


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"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"

 

#17 2012-04-09 06:54:54

steve mcqueen fan
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?


"McQueen's message was signaled through subtraction... in a tweed or herringbone jacket and a ribbed swearer he had an electric austerity".

 

#18 2012-04-09 09:30:11

steve mcqueen fan
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

http://stores.ebay.com/pb5415/_ihtml?rt=nc&

This guy has a vintage Catalina Baseball jacket (on page 3) and some other stuff people might find interesting. Alot of "Mud Room" type wool jackets.


"McQueen's message was signaled through subtraction... in a tweed or herringbone jacket and a ribbed swearer he had an electric austerity".

 

#19 2012-04-09 09:43:54

Goodyear welt
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

As I said a little "grease lighting" for me, Hank has also noted the "rockin', ted" connection. The others are better looking, getting towards what I call a Monkey jacket, which I do wear, in seersucker. Bit too mod foe some though. Perhaps.


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#20 2012-04-09 10:00:19

Yuca
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

Anyone young and wearing a varsity jacket in early 60s London, teamed with Levis or chinos and ivyish shoes, would have looked pretty mod imo.  Perhaps less so a few years later.


some sort of banal legitimacy

 

#21 2012-04-09 10:01:43

Yuca
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Mind you, I can't imagine I'll ever buy one.  If I wanted to dress like a teenager I wouldn't be here in the first place.


some sort of banal legitimacy

 

#22 2012-04-09 10:12:35

Goodyear welt
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

Yeah, but we don't live in the early 60s Yuca. I don't doubt that the MJ comes from a college jacket. Best to tone these things down IMO, keep it away from subculture images, otherwise it just looks like a parody. + if your over a certain it can go from clown to hoho pretty fast.


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#23 2012-04-09 10:21:21

Yuca
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?


some sort of banal legitimacy

 

#24 2012-04-09 12:13:38

Leer R.
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#25 2012-04-09 12:48:12

Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Varsity jackets - hot or not?

Look! There's a jacket on that Logo !

wink

 

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