Search For "Fonz" Style Jacket

[Todd M.]

I have been looking and looking but know one wants to give them up. Well I have four of them. One is a size 38-40 and one is a 42 and the other two are size 44 in perfect shape. I can't wear the 38-40 and the 42 I can zipit up but it's tight. I will be getting rid of them soon because I just order a Aero a Happy days Jacket and I can't wait to get it. Does anyone know how long it takes to get a Aero jacket once it's been ordered, if so please let me know. the two size 44's are keepers so I can't let them go.

If any one Is getting rid of a fonzie jacket in large please let me know. I need it for my collection. I have over 30 jackets some are A-2's and some are vintage leather motocycle bomber jackets.

Six to eight weeks,well worth the wait

 

[Mojave Jack]

I just saw the Fonz on my plane from Hartford to Dallas-Ft Worth. He didn't have the jacket on, though. I always preferred his character of Butchey in "The Lord's of Flatbush" to The Fonz. I had a girlfriend that was an artist, and she did an exact replica of the Lord's logo on the back of my black leather jacket. Unfortunately I outgrew that jacket and had to let it go.

Interestingly, Henry Winkler has said he based the character of The Fonz on Sylvester Stallone's character, Stanley, from that movie.

 

[SamMarlowPI]

I just saw the Fonz on my plane from Hartford to Dallas-Ft Worth. He didn't have the jacket on, though. I always preferred his character of Butchey in "The Lord's of Flatbush" to The Fonz. I had a girlfriend that was an artist, and she did an exact replica of the Lord's logo on the back of my black leather jacket. Unfortunately I outgrew that jacket and had to let it go.

Interestingly, Henry Winkler has said he based the character of The Fonz on Sylvester Stallone's character, Stanley, from that movie.

yep i read that too...good film, The Lords of Flatbush...

 

[Shiloh John]

I know this posting is old, but does anyone know what type of leather the Cooper Fonz was made of? I heard it was faux, but it may be goat or lambskin.
THANKS! Aaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy.

 

[Seb Lucas]

Are you talking about the Cooper jacket worn by Winkler or the Cooper fan jacket? I have read that both were cow. Having said that, the series used a few jackets and info on leather is often unreliable.

 

[ButteMT61]

Aero has a nice, not-cheap Fonz jacket! I have not seen Copper models, but who knows...

 

[Metatron]

There's also this, from a recent topic: http://www.stewart.it/en/products/

 

[Fifty150]

All my friends still think that Fonzie's jacket was black. It just looked like that on TV at the time.

 

[ButteMT61]

All my friends still think that Fonzie's jacket was black. It just looked like that on TV at the time.

It was brown, and damn small. I think it's in the smithsonian.

 

[Seb Lucas]

Part of the charm of a Fonzie jacket for me is not having an Aero version. To me an Aero Fonzie is like when Scarlett Johansen sings Tom Waits songs - it's glamorous but superfluous. I think of F's jacket as a bog standard, reasonably made jacket like those available in so many local city leather shops for years. I owned jackets like that 30 years ago. They were cool. Problem is these days, by and large all you have is premium makers or shit makers... Bring back mediocre makers that are affordable.

 

[Edward]

It was brown, and damn small. I think it's in the smithsonian.

It is indeed - the Smithsonian Museum of American History; I saw it in June when I was in DC. Up close, it looks screamingly Seventies, though I doubt the average viewer (neither condescension nor insult intended by use of that term) would notice. The one thing I have discovered over the years in all sorts of contexts is that unless people are specifically looking for particular details, they simply never notice them. I'm the same outside of my fields of expertise (I know there are folks who can pick all kinds of holes in the accuracy of Kingdom of Heaven, for instance, but I never noticed any of those). Anyhoo....

The jacket is much smaller than one might expect. Never met Winkler, but it would lead me to suspect he is a smaller man than one had assumed. The colour was definitely brown - the sort of brown that I imagine could look black on screen (from memory, I think Steve Macqueen's A2 and some of those in Pearl Harbour also looked almost black in some shots).

I think this is the one that is in the Smithsonian:

There were, of course, at least two more jackets to the best of my knowledge. In the first season of Happy Days, the studio had objected to leather and so Fonzie had to wear a white windbreaker when not near his bike. I think it was the second season when the now-iconic leather became his norm. I have often heard it said one of the leather jackets was black, though my own speculation is that they were all brown - a compromise position with a conservative studio - but chosen in a shade that would look black as often as possible, getting the HD folks closest to what they really wanted.

Part of the charm of a Fonzie jacket for me is not having an Aero version. To me an Aero Fonzie is like when Scarlett Johansen sings Tom Waits songs - it's glamorous but superfluous. I think of F's jacket as a bog standard, reasonably made jacket like those available in so many local city leather shops for years. I owned jackets like that 30 years ago. They were cool. Problem is these days, by and large all you have is premium makers or shit makers... Bring back mediocre makers that are affordable.

Language, dear boy!

I see what you mean. Certainly back in the day a guy like the Fonz would have worn something affordable and OTR (of course, the costume - at least the original jacket, as far as I know) was OTR 70s product. Myself, one day I'd like an Aero HD in black. Not because of the Fonz, simply because I like it in and of itself. Style-wise, it puts me in mind of something that Fonzie might really have worn in the Fifties, rather than a Seventies-does-Fifties item.

 

[Edward]

Oh... chanced across this:

http://www.celebswear.com/products/Happy-Days-Fonzie-Jacket.html

No idea about quality, but it's an option at least.

 

[Fifty150]

Fonzie had such a way with words.

SIT ON IT, Potsie!

 

[ButteMT61]

It is indeed - the Smithsonian Museum of American History; I saw it in June when I was in DC. Up close, it looks screamingly Seventies, though I doubt the average viewer (neither condescension nor insult intended by use of that term) would notice. The one thing I have discovered over the years in all sorts of contexts is that unless people are specifically looking for particular details, they simply never notice them. I'm the same outside of my fields of expertise (I know there are folks who can pick all kinds of holes in the accuracy of Kingdom of Heaven, for instance, but I never noticed any of those). Anyhoo....

Well thanks for confirming I'm not insane. Well, maybe it's yet to be decided, but at least my memory is still intact

 

[Dagenham Dave]

If any one is willing to sell one The fonz leather jacket I would like to buy another one. I just order a Aero (Happy Days) in Dark brown FQHH and I can't wait till it arrives. any one out there ever bought one . Let me know if you like yours.

How did your Aero "Happy Days" turn out?

 

[Shiloh John]

AAAYYYY! Heres on on ebay! https://www.ebay.com/itm/232733414772?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

 

[Seb Lucas]

Yes, that's the Cooper sportswear Fonzie jacket that was sold in the 1970's. Looks pretty ordinary.