asiamiles
Well-Known Member
I just took delivery of this repro - by MacLeod - of the jacket worn by Kurt Russell (as Snake Plissken) in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. I know a couple of others have made repro's of Snake's jacket; Magnolia and, I think Aero, as I seem to recall a VLJ member buying an Aero. Anyway, this most certainly trumps the former. How good is it? Well, I actually think it looks better on me than the original jacket did on Kurt! To qualify that statement, I should that while I think EFNY is a great film but I never thought Kurt's "look" was so great and I don't think the jacket looks all that good on him.
The jacket has been just lightly worn as it was made in pre-distressed state, and it's one of the very few jackets that doesn't look the worse for it...that said, I wonder what a coat of Pecards would do it it? As yet, I'm not 100% whether to keep the jacket; money (more precisely, lack of it) could be a deciding factor. The only way I think this jacket could be bettered was if it was just slightly longer (for that I blame my body not the jacket, and even on me it isn't too short) and if it was black...MacLeod did make a black version (see the Macleod website linked below) last winter but I can't afford to pay the hefty retail price and the chances of one appearing on the secondary market seem very slim, since it seems new ones are hard enough to source. The pics below were taken by the seller.
http://www.macleod.jp/index.htm
The jacket has been just lightly worn as it was made in pre-distressed state, and it's one of the very few jackets that doesn't look the worse for it...that said, I wonder what a coat of Pecards would do it it? As yet, I'm not 100% whether to keep the jacket; money (more precisely, lack of it) could be a deciding factor. The only way I think this jacket could be bettered was if it was just slightly longer (for that I blame my body not the jacket, and even on me it isn't too short) and if it was black...MacLeod did make a black version (see the Macleod website linked below) last winter but I can't afford to pay the hefty retail price and the chances of one appearing on the secondary market seem very slim, since it seems new ones are hard enough to source. The pics below were taken by the seller.
http://www.macleod.jp/index.htm