Grease Up

[Superfluous]

 

[Peter Bowden]

I've watched "The Loveless" a few times.Does anybody know the brand of jacket?

 

[Matt Crunk]

That jacket is so shiny it looks like vinyl.

 

[handymike]

It's the grease that does that!

 

[rocketeer]

If I spotted this on the shelf I would think it was a magazine for the Al Pacino Cruising look. The jacket is just too shiny. The hat? Not beat up enough, too clean.
I see the name Joe Clay at the bottom, is it a music magazine?

 

[Monitor]

I am intrigued and wish to learn more. What's this about? And yeah ^ Cruising is the first thing I thought of too. Are there really 500,000,000 Rockabilly fans in the world?

 

[Superfluous]

I too thought of Pacino in Cruising . . . unfortunately, the Village People also crossed my mind.

 

[Superfluous]

 

[tropicalbob]

At the immediate risk of getting hunted down and executed by FL members, I should mention that back in the 1970's and '80's in NY, the most popular jacket in the West Village (the *** part of downtown) was the A2. Coming up out of the subway one day with a friend of mine onto Christopher Street, he commented that the place looked like a scene out of Catch-22. The Lower East Side (the punk scene) was more about Perfectos and Cafe Racers, and just about any other style of leather you could think of. There was the *** scene, though, which is where you'd also find the Perfectos. One rainy night I was in a friend's car and was stopped at a traffic light on Seventh Ave. when a bunch of guys walked right in front of our car attired like the guy in the greasy jacket photo above. Then I noticed that the apparent leader and the tallest guy in the group was my boss. I saw him in a whole new light after that.

 

[Worf]

At the immediate risk of getting hunted down and executed by FL members, I should mention that back in the 1970's and '80's in NY, the most popular jacket in the West Village (the *** part of downtown) was the A2. Coming up out of the subway one day with a friend of mine onto Christopher Street, he commented that the place looked like a scene out of Catch-22. The Lower East Side (the punk scene) was more about Perfectos and Cafe Racers, and just about any other style of leather you could think of. There was the *** scene, though, which is where you'd also find the Perfectos. One rainy night I was in a friend's car and was stopped at a traffic light on Seventh Ave. when a bunch of guys walked right in front of our car attired like the guy in the greasy jacket photo above. Then I noticed that the apparent leader and the tallest guy in the group was my boss. I saw him in a whole new light after that.

Great story..... You never know do you?

Worf

 

[ProteinNerd]

 

[Sloan1874]

I am intrigued and wish to learn more. What's this about? And yeah ^ Cruising is the first thing I thought of too. Are there really 500,000,000 Rockabilly fans in the world?

It just feels like that sometimes.