Has anyone passed/received a jacket to/from son/dad?

[sshack]

I've got one last Aero that has been lurking in closet. Wondering if I should save it for my son... he's definitely going to be taller than my 5'10" so it may not fit.

All the other jackets are going to be buried with me or donated to the future Fedora Lounge Wing at the Smithsonian.

 

[handymike]

I gave my 16 year old son the de-fringed Kehoe. Looks killer on him & he likes it!

 

[ton312]

I've got one last Aero that has been lurking in closet. Wondering if I should save it for my son... he's definitely going to be taller than my 5'10."

All the other jackets are going to be buried with me.

Why not give him all of them? He might want the momento!
I have a daughter so I’ll need to have Taylor Swift air brushed on the back of mine.

 

[sshack]

Why not give him all of them? He might want the momento!

Because he'll just set them aside and reach for his Switch controller. I work hard for these jackets, lol, can't make it too easy. Stinkin' spoiled kids... mine included.

 

[sshack]

Why not give him all of them? He might want the momento!
I have a daughter so I’ll need to have Taylor Swift air brushed on the back of mine.

A Swiftie air brushed A-2... nice.

 

[JMax]

My boy has his own leather and I look forward to handing down my gear to him. The way he is growing none may fit though.

My dad has lived and been all over the world. He has owned a wide collection of leather jackets and other gear in many different hides. Some peculiar. Putting it mildly and with as much affection as possible, most are not my style or fit. But I have them because they are from my pappy.

 

[handymike]

Upon my demise, I will burden both my boys with my collection of treasures! (Which also includes about 50 aloha shirts)

 

[NZJono]

Received a good heavy wool shirt (almost jacket weight) from my dad years ago that he bought at least 55 years ago. I still wear it occasionally when hiking. Still in great condition

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Best to pass em down now before they outlaw the wearing of hides and such. You know they will.
B

 

[sshack]

Best to pass em down now before they outlaw the wearing of hides and such. You know the will.
B

Lol, I actually was reading about elephant leather the other day. Legal in some countries, especially if it was taken from culled elephants (which may be hard to enforce or verify). I was tempted. Sometimes I creep myself out.

 

[El Marro]

My dad is 5 inches shorter than me and about 25 pounds lighter so there aren’t any jackets that we can pass back and forth these days. I think the sweet spot for that was when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I found one of his USMC field shirts leftover from basic training and I wore it all the time, I remember he also had a cool old Lee denim vest that I would wear because I thought it made me look tough.

 

[navetsea]

my dad passed when I was 22, thinking about it I have nothing that used to be his, style wise we don't share anything in common, but for many years he was civil engineer and at the time I studied architecture and I draw comic after that... but strangely I didn't get his pencil or ruler, or his drawing board or anything, we didn't live in the same household from much earlier as I lived with my grandparent, oh he handed me down his old bifold wallet when he bought a new one but that was many years before his death when I was still in highschool and didn't have any wallet prior that.

 

[navetsea]

Best to pass em down now before they outlaw the wearing of hides and such. You know they will.
B

one day they would make leather from fruit peel and fungus or perhaps growing skin cell on petridish... I don't mind actually especially when they are cut square and uniform in thickness to the edges would safe a lot or material

 

[galopede]

My son had my old Belstaff Trialmaster I used on the bike for years when it "shrank"! He wore it for many years after. He also had my old Welsh rugby jersey that shrank at the same time. Think he took the jersey to Australia when he emigrated! It's still going.

 

[red devil]

My son already has a jacket his size, a cool one. I wonder if he will be able to fin in mine when he grows up.

 

[Edward]

c.1973, my dad complimented a leather blazer a friend of his wore. My mother saved up and bought him one for Christmas. It was always just a little too small (and Dad was never a 'fashion' guy), so it never got worn. I took hold of it in the nineties, at a time when grunge was big, then later it had a sort of Jarvis Cocker vibe. I still have it, not worn it for years, but the wife has designs on it now... SI 70s blazer style, big lapels. Very much like the jacket Pacino wears in Carlito's Way, but a bit shorter.

 

[crowquill]

I routinely wear an overcoat and pea jacket that I inherited from my father over 20 years ago. Fortunately we were the same height and close to the same weight.