{"id":1200,"date":"2012-05-02T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:25:46","slug":"the-authentic-field-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/the-authentic-field-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"The Authentic Field Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maria, a fan of my Facebook page<\/a> posted this picture yesterday to show off her 1980s Banana Republic jacket. It wasn’t one I immediately recognized. It’s not the Bush jacket<\/strong>, or the Correspondent’s jacket<\/strong>, and certainly isn’t a Safari jacket<\/strong>. But it had a BIG LABEL<\/a><\/strong>, so we know it’s an older piece. Obviously, it’s seen some serious action, possibly a tiger attack, but what is it?<\/p>\n

This is one of the reasons I do this blog the way I do. I searched through the Men’s Jackets page<\/a> and easily found what turns out to be the Authentic Field Jacket <\/strong>(modeled on a U.S. military jacket) , as pictured in the Winter 1984 catalog<\/a> #17, which as far as I know is the last time it was offered. I do not have catalog 18 Spring 1984 <\/strong>to confirm that.  I then found it in my recently acquired (unscanned) catalogs #15 and 16<\/strong>, but not in catalog #12<\/strong>. So we can say for certain that this jacket was only offered by Banana Republic in 1983 and early 1984.<\/p>\n

That means it’s one of those rare pieces that pre-dates the GAP purchase and that makes it very cool to me. This is one of the reasons I love doing this blog. There’s lots of vintage BR stuff out there and it’s really helpful to know what’s really unusual, and it’s nice to have a (hopefully) easy way to look something up and place it in time. Thanks for sharing, Maria! <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maria, a fan of my Facebook page posted this picture yesterday to show off her 1980s Banana Republic jacket. It wasn’t one I immediately recognized. It’s not the Bush jacket, or the Correspondent’s jacket, and certainly isn’t a Safari jacket. But it had a BIG LABEL, so we know it’s an older piece. Obviously, it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1424,4],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}