Warrior’s Battle Jacket
This vintage ad used to perplex me as a kid, mainly, why would they make adult sizes? Granted, I grew up slightly rural but I could not fathom an adult that would wear a warrior’s battle jacket, certainly not an adult woman.
I wish I could send comic con footage to my nine year old self sometimes…
I had one of those jackets (ordered it from the back of Famous Monsters of Filmland.)
It was screen accurate, down to thew clasps, patch, and pins.
Bit it came in a size too small.
My Best Bud could wear it with no problems, so I ended up giving it to him (AFTER taking the patch and pins, natch.)
Tex
(wishing he'd ordered the Battle Pack as well)
Geez. How flippin cool is that!
Count me among the thousands who begged their mom for one of these.
Once I saw one just 2yrs later at college, I was glad I skipped. The one I saw was too tan on color, unlike the series.
Leaping ahead 20yrs, I went to the 20th Yarhen LA Con there they had much better reproductions. STILL couldn't convince my brand-new wife to let me buy one.
"Oh, the day will come…"
Well, I DID wear one, as an adult. When I was in college, my dad got it for me. Later, when I was in the Navy, I would wear it when I went on liberty. Then, one day in 1983-or-so, I made the mistake of thinking of the barracks as my home-away-from-home. I took it off in the barracks TV lounge, then went to the can, fully expecting it to still be there when I got back. But it wasn’t. I suppose one of my fellow American sailors still thinks of me as a chump or whatever. I wish I could get it back somehow, or get another one like it.