M65 is a jacket from Vietnam War period, Rambo and Rambo II are movies about that particular time, so no matter when those movies were shot - M65 is a jacket from 60s.
I can't shake the feeling that most people around here don't actually remember the 1980s. Big J, if you want some retro-styling, you're gonna have to go with dropped shoulders, big chest measurements, and narrow high waists. Pretty much all modern jackets are not going to get it right and you'll look like a 25 year old hipster stylist's idea of what the 1980s was like, i.e. totally f-ing wrong.
@Edward, I'm loving that Aero 40's jacket in blue and cream. The raglan sleeves are awesome. I'd need to score some red chenille letters for the 'J' on the left breast and a motto on the back.
@Lebowski, Andy from BK wants to take me to court, so I'll have to pass on his jackets.
Good luck @Big J. Lived through the he 80's and it was questionable that I would make it and I don't wanna go back to the times or the clothes. Of course with the way I dress, people think I got my styling ques from Urban Cowboy but I was dressing this way while Travolta was still spinning on the Saturday Night Live dance floor.
Personally, I've always had a soft spot for You Make My Dreams Come True. Especially after this...
Actually, much of the more mainstream gear from that era could be quite flattering for men since it tried to create larger shoulders and narrower waists, a classic "male" body shape, even when the wearer didn't have that shape. By contrast, much of today's clothing for men, especially slim-fit stuff aimed at hipsters and/or youth buyers which is quite widespread, de-emphasizes shoulders and tries to make the hips look as wide as the shoulders, so in that sense attempts to feminize (or infantilize) the male figure. I realize few will agree with me on this, but the difference seems obvious to me. It's a common mistake to look at fashions in MTV videos and think that was the 1980s--it wasn't, it was always the style fringe, and most everday 80s fashions available to the masses were fairly conservative.
I think one of the things I hate most about eighties revivalism is how selective it all is, and that - bad as so much of it looks - it was nowhere near representative of what people wore on the street, which was often worse. There's very little of the eighties for which I have any affection. That said, bits and pieces of early eighties tailoring can be great, from that era of 'eighties does fifties'. Can be had for buttons, too, compared to genuine fifties stuff but the cut is still right.
Mazinger Z! Original and best giant robo anime!
The 30th anniversary Macross mini-series was pretty good, but I hate all of the original series. It's full of Japanese right-wing revisionism, that probably goes above the heads of foreigners who've never lived in Japan.
The peace loving Japanese (oops! I meant 'humans') are attacked without warning by violent invasive foreigners (oops! I mean 'aliens'), who are so physically big, the little 'humans' have to build robot suits to fight them. Thankfully, the peace loving 'humans' win through the power of song, which brings love to the hearts of the 'aliens'.
It's no coincidence that the Super Dimensional Fortress is named such; SDF also stands for Japan's Self Defense Forces, and it ends up rusting as a sad symbol of power in the middle of Macross City (a reference to the powerless post WWII emperor in his Tokyo palace).
No surprise then that against a constant drop feed of revisionist ideology from childhood, that the most recent best selling manga/anime Attack on Titan advocates a fascist state to defend from oversized 'others', with central characters named after convicted war criminals.
The only 'honest' manga/anime to address Japan's real social problems was Akira; drugs, delinquency, discrimination, police state, school violence, states penchant for fascism, lack of democracy, poor workers representation, new religion and an over reliance on technology.