Now that's a jacket

The Buzz Rickson MA-1.

This is the bomber replica that Cayce Pollard wears and admires so much in Pattern Recognition. For some reason including my moderate idolization of C.Pollard, I think this thing is really cool.

If the world were to blow up and all things become dark and starkly standardized, this is what your torso would look like as you warmed your dirty hands over the fire lit in that old oil barrel. This jacket is a jacket -- an archetype.

If I look at it long enough, I'm going end up EBaying it. Offline I go.

[Photo by punyfig]