I’m afraid my untutored eye simply saw a leather jacket with lapels and I came over all nostalgic.
However even if I didn’t look like a right cock back then I certainly would do now.
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You needed a zippo pocket, too! 
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You mean the green jacket with a shirt in the blue? Yes! Do it. I think it would look great.
As a rebellion signal I get them but unless you’re particularly virile and under 45 or hugely wasted they often come over questionably
Or a hairy biker who actually rides a motorcycle, Even old fat blokes can wear them when they are obviously well used for their real purpose.
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I bought one at 15, I still have it for sentimental reasons but hasn’t been seen out since 2003.
As someone who dresses like he walked past an exploding charity-shop rejects bin and just kept wearing the contents I try to stay out of this thread, but fuck me that is a fucking TRAGIC look.
Minor redemption would be possible if the jacket was worn and scuffed by regular use while riding upon some kind of 1950s cafe-racer motursickle, but even then…
Are old bikers cool though?
Only if they’ve never, ever used any other form of transport, otherwise: poseurs 
No and hopefully they would kick you in the danglies if you called them that.
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Not combined with a turtleneck, come on, have a word with yourself!
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Mate, as someone who often has homeless people offering him their coats, I can offer no valid critique beyond remarking that I fucking hate high-necked jumpers cos they make my neck itch.
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Always wondered how Oldukbikeman managed to live out his renegade dreams of wide open spaces and outlaw visions in the drizzle in one of the shires.
It strikes me as curiously uncool that norman the accountant would wheel out his well polished bike from the garage at the weekend and poodle off down the road singing born to be wild in his over helmeted head. If Norman would like to attempt any nut kicking I’m at the bottom of a nice caravan packed drive down the A303.
At some point in the early 90’s I used to sell Aero leather jackets - These Horse hide things would last a lifetime and take half of that to break in. I still have a standard jacket from them, it stands up on it’s own and still need further breaking in. Aero’s range included x2 biker jackets one of them was a copy of Elvis’s. Aero were / are a quality thing, you could select your lining @Mrs_Maureen_OPinion will be pleased to note Alpaca was an option along with additional internal pockets etc etc. The chrome tan horsehide was considerably nicer than the Steer
Whenever an aged person put one on it used to look wrong, we would play the James Bond Theme tune and watch them posing in front of the mirror - Tragic - Apart from the day Armani came into the shop, he put one on and actually looked good in it (Slim tanned white hair helped)
Just looked on their site and what was £400 then is now £1200+
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I used to have my dad’s 1950s horsehide biker he bought on shore leave in the US - he actually raced bikes and wore that, goggles and a chinstrap halfshell when he raced.
It used to wear me occasionally when I was posing as a punk aged 14. It got robbed out of my cupboard years later during a party.
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In my punk days I really wanted a bikers jacket but couldn’t afford one.
Ended up with a corduroy one from a charity shop
Must of looked a complete cunt in it
£304 still buys you one
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TBF the punk look would be a challenge to carry off at 80 yrs old.
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- Brown
- Corduroy
- Biker Jacket
12:31 Wednesday and I’m officially done for the day
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