I like the collar. My dads 1940s vintage NAVY jacket had a lambs wool collar. I was tempted to have a tailor remove the older collar and put it on my new G1. I think the collar is relevant to the coat size and my new jacket is larger than dads. This switch may not work.
Can you get the old style wool collars today new separately and get them sewed on ? ANYONE ?
Looks like Cockpit makes a repro Top Gun jacket. And it's on sale. Personally, I wouldn't be caught dead in it. But if it takes your breath away...
I've always hated that film myself, but you can certainly see why some of the makers brought out a copy of the jacket in it. I suspect itg did a lot to raise the profile of the USN jackets at the time, though Cruise is sure no Macqueen.
If I remember correctly, Top Gun came out at about the same time as An Officer and a Gentleman. They were both awful films, but I remember thinking at the time that they were the first pro-military movies since The Green Berets, back in the mid-Sixties.
Top Gun supposedly proved quite the recruitment tool for the USN pilot programme. It did have access to all the hardware, of course - as one might epect, the military are very supportive of productions which will show them in a positive light, less so if the piece is perceived as critical. (As would be the case for pretty much any organisation, of course.)