Happy Veteran's / Remembrance Day

Making Men Hot One Jacket at a Time

The colder weather brings out the leather bomber jackets. One constant trend I've noticed though is that while some younger guys sport their A-2's, G-1's (or the knock-off fashion versions) the majority of guys who seem to own them are older.

I wonder if it's a generational thing. But I see consistently men who are mature from different generations wearing flight jackets (for example, men who would have grown up anywhere from the 50's to the 70's) so it makes me think that maybe there's something about growing older that makes flight jackets part of a "mature" wardrobe.

This is odd, because at least in the beginning leather flight jackets were designed for young pilots in the wars. Then, in the 1950's, they became the thing to year for young men (haven't you ever seen all the bomber jackets in "Rebel Without a Cause"). So then maybe bomber jackets become a way of re-capturing youth?

The reason doesn't matter one bit to me! What got me thinking about this was tonight at the grocery store I saw an amazingly hot older/mature man wearing a brown A-2 jacket. He had "salt and pepper" hair and blue eyes... we made eye contact several times, and while I can't be sure if there was anything to it, I thought the guy was hot enough I'd notice him even if he wasn't wearing a bomber jacket. But the leather jacket helped!