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Einstein on leather jackets... and superfluous

BobJ

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...says the man with a mustache. Besides, easy for him to say, with the selection of jackets he had. Back then he couldn't have bought a crap one even if he wanted to.
 

Peacoat

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And the jacket is just what Monitor would like with either no collar or a minimal collar.

I think the photos were taken after he left Germany and moved here, but not certain. He left Germany in the 1930s when he was in his 50s.
 
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If corporate got ahold of those shots, he'd quickly be wearing a LVC Menlo Cossack :)
He used to live in Pasadena down the street from my wife's grandma.
 

AdeeC

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Oobviously he understood the theory of jacket "relatively". The older and more wear it gets the cooler it looks. Maybe he discovered that too? Drapes not unlike an A-1 or early A-2.
 

Justhandguns

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I want to ask him this question
if you put a leather jacket in a plane and set it to fly faster than the speed of light, can it turn back to a living horse, goat, or cow?

I don't think you need the great man for this question. The answer is no. Although, the thought of flying a war time A-2 at light speed for a year or so, so that it will be practically like new at present days, is really tempting.
 

Lean'n'mean

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I want to ask him this question
if you put a leather jacket in a plane and set it to fly faster than the speed of light, can it turn back to a living horse, goat, or cow?

You'd need a time machine for the tanned hide to reunite with it's original owner.................but be warned, the reassembling won't be pretty. :D
 

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