{"id":9381,"date":"2020-08-30T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T16:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:24:36","slug":"army-air-corps-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/army-air-corps-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Air Corps Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The early illustration for the Army Air Corps jacket implied the texture of the leather but failed to capture the look accurately. The art was used in Summer 84 through Spring 85.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Made in the USA of Argentine cowhide, the distressed leather Army Air Corps jacket was wildly popular in the 1980s and was much copied as I remember. All is fair, seeing as it\u2019s a copy of an original anyway! It was in the catalogues along with the Goatskin Flight Jacket and Leather Flight Jacket so they had two WWII pilots jackets at the same time. This one was a bit lighter and slimmer. The jacket sold until Holiday 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the catalogue: “Originally styled in the early 1940s, worn by the Flying Tigers in China and Europe\u2019s Mustang and Thunderbolt pilots. Crafted from the first quality matched cowhides to the actual Army Air Corps specs. Every detail from the original is here: Snap down collar, nylon lining, grommets under the arms, epaulets, side entry cargo pockets, inside pocket, zipper guard, brass zipper. It\u2019s so true to its inspiration that we\u2019ve added one final dimension that takes it all the way-a few years of \u201cwear\u201d to the otherwise new leather. A tough cockpit jacket that weighs little for all the warmth and amenity it provides”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New art was produced in 1985 for the all-important Holiday catalog, possibly by freelancer Ellery Knight based on the shadows. Its an image I consider iconic-it just sold the jacket so beautifully.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An AAC jacket with a very early tag. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Made in the USA of Argentine cowhide, the distressed leather Army Air Corps jacket was wildly popular in the 1980s and was much copied as I remember. All is fair, seeing as it\u2019s a copy of an original anyway! It was in the catalogues along with the Goatskin Flight Jacket and Leather Flight Jacket so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1440,1424],"tags":[1439],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381"}],"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=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14124,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/14124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}