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 gay 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 S&M 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 gay 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 S&M 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.