Matching your Leather Jacket and Shoes

OceanBreeze · Aug 15, 2017

ProteinNerd said:
I often split the difference between sneakers and leather shoes/boots and just wear a pair of leather converse....

Leather converse! Good idea... wonder how long those last.

shadowrider · Aug 23, 2017

The Fonz didn't match, so I don't either.

Edward · Aug 26, 2017

The Fonz was intended to match, but the NB network point blank refused to have him in a black leather jacket....and at that, for a long tine he was only allowed the leather when the motorcycle was in-scene!

Big J · Aug 26, 2017

Oh, wait, so you guys are all wearing shoes now, or you all been wearing shoes all along and just not telling me?

shadowrider · Aug 26, 2017

Edward said:
The Fonz was intended to match, but the NB network point blank refused to have him in a black leather jacket....and at that, for a long tine he was only allowed the leather when the motorcycle was in-scene!

Really??? Why is that?

handymike · Aug 27, 2017

You'd be amazed at how networks run, and decisions are made. I'm sure it was a battle to get a "Hoodlum" character on the show to begin with.

ProteinNerd · Aug 27, 2017

I never noticed how slim Fonzies jeans were....they seem quite a bit slimmer than today's straight leg jeans?

Fanch · Aug 27, 2017

ProteinNerd said:
I never noticed how slim Fonzies jeans were....they seem quite a bit slimmer than today's straight leg jeans?

I noticed that too.

handymike · Aug 27, 2017

STF 501s probably

Edward · Aug 27, 2017

shadowrider said:
Really??? Why is that?

The execs were afraid of having a hoodlum character on the show, especially one that was seen as a positive character. For the first season, they even made him wear a sky blue cotton windcheater before they'd allow a leather at all.

Edgar Laurel · Sep 4, 2017

Well, after finished my Aero midnight blue order and also given the fact that I'll order a navy board racer the next time around I've started to look for some navy/dark blue shoes or boots around the web.
Hope it doesn't get too hard to find.

El Marro · Sep 4, 2017

Edgar Laurel said:
Well, after finished my Aero midnight blue order and also given the fact that I'll order a navy board racer the next time around I've started to look for some navy/dark blue shoes or boots around the web.
Hope it doesn't get too hard to find.

Both White's Semi Dress boot and Alden's Indy are available in navy CXL. Be careful, this could get very expensive very quickly!

Fanch · Sep 4, 2017

El Marro said:
Both White's Semi Dress boot and Alden's Indy are available in navy CXL. Be careful, this could get very expensive very quickly!

I don't know that I would go to that extreme. A midnight blue jacket should match well enough with black shoes. I always match my shoes and belt, but jacket and shoes ... I dunno.

zebedee · Sep 4, 2017

Yeah, I'm more towards the shoes and belt matching. A handy trick is to get really dark brown stuff, especially belts. They go with most anything. The real trick, however, is not to care too much.

Edgar Laurel · Sep 4, 2017

With that dark tone of blue/forrest/ black should do the trick....but with the navy BR..just to have something different from black at times.

Seb Lucas · Sep 4, 2017

Edward said:
The execs were afraid of having a hoodlum character on the show, especially one that was seen as a positive character. For the first season, they even made him wear a sky blue cotton windcheater before they'd allow a leather at all.

Yep - I remember when Happy Days came out and parents were deeply suspicious of kids treating a "greaser" as a hero. Fonzie had to earn his keep on the show and needed to be more righteous than anyone else just to stay on air.

This doesn't quite work, does it? On Steve McQueen, yes. On the Fonze... not so much. Is it a McGregor Drizzler?

Big J · Sep 4, 2017

I'm lovin' Fonzie's pale blue windbreaker!
That's really neat!
Can anyone identify it?

As for the OP, right now, matching my socks is the limit.

Edward · Sep 4, 2017

Seb Lucas said:
This doesn't quite work, does it? On Steve McQueen, yes. On the Fonze... not so much. Is it a McGregor Drizzler?

Looking at it again, it could well be. Perhaps a nod to the troubled Jim Stark, to give him a sense of rebelliousness in the absence of leather.

handymike · Sep 5, 2017

Edgar Laurel said:
Well, after finished my Aero midnight blue order and also given the fact that I'll order a navy board racer the next time around I've started to look for some navy/dark blue shoes or boots around the web.
Hope it doesn't get too hard to find.

I like the Wolverine Evans boot in Navy.

Gromulus · Sep 5, 2017

Seb Lucas said:
Yep - I remember when Happy Days came out and parents were deeply suspicious of kids treating a "greaser" as a hero. Fonzie had to earn his keep on the show and needed to be more righteous than anyone else just to stay on air.

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This doesn't quite work, does it? On Steve McQueen, yes. On the Fonze... not so much. Is it a McGregor Drizzler?

His testosterone level probably rose at least a couple hundred moving from that metro-sexual thing to a leather jacket!

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