Maybe this thought is more specific to the UK. It's not seen all that often here in the United States. At least not in the area of the country I live in. In fact the only people besides myself I've ever seen wearing one were the ska kids around here. I think it's interesting to see the different brands and items that take on specific meanings depending on the wearer's location.

Just do a quick search for 'Harrington jacket' on Ebay.  What a joke!

I like them - especially the cheap copies. It is a simple classic. It is not as though everybody in the UK is wearing them either.

All you have to do is avoid black ones which have too many associations with teenage tribes.

I like a fitted blouson bottom. The G4 suggests 'portly'  and 'elderly'. Stone and natural are close to 'beige' which is a pensioner colour.

I did actually start looking at Harringtons as an alternative to ridiculously-priced tops to play golf in. I did not need Goretex Proquip, Galvin Green or Sunderland stuff. I do not mind getting soaked occasionally. That's why you bring a change of clothes.

Prince of Wales and Houndstooth are nice on a Harrington.

I do not like the use of the Harrington description for any zip top jacket, as exemplified one year by Marks & Spencer.

Judging by your piccies, you're adorable!

Kingstonian has a point here - although everyone in my town seems to live in sports wear and trainers!

Horrid how the notion big, big lettering is the thing has taken over: big fat wheezing 10 pint a night men in Russell Athletic, Fred Perry everywhere - names, names.  Not so much snide Burberry about, but Bench still rules the streets here.  I see the occasional pair of decent shoes, usually on older men who like malt whisky.

I get the point that "familiarity breeds contempt", but the other night as i was driving up my street i saw a guy in his late 50's in a black "Harrington". Now the guy was wearing non-descript clothing apart from the "Harrington". Now I have a couple of G9's (not black by the way. One is the very light "ice" blue, and one a brown stripey job on a white background) I got to thinking that the G9's I wear AND what i wear them with is what makes the difference. It bears no resemblance to the guy I saw, it bears no resemblance to a fat chav ex skin or mod revivalist now reviving his revival days!!!!! (though guilty of being involved in said revival) except in the look of the jacket. But the jacket is only part of the whole picture and its the WHOLE picture that counts. The "Harrington" didn't start life as an Iconic jacket, it served a purpose, it then got subverted and took on other connatations (cool, Ivy etc) that then got subverted by the Skins, then subverted again by the chav classes, hey i say lets subvert it again back to classic,  subvert the subversion!!

When teamed with the right clothes and (maybe?) worn with the right attitude then I think it is what I want it to be, a classic garment.

PK

By the way, a few weeks ago I posted on here about what the difference was between a "original" fit G9 and the "vintage" fit G9? I actually emailed Baracuta at that time, but guess what? I got no reply. So their lack of customer relations will probably put me off buying another one more than the ubiquity of the jacket.