Discussion: Leather Uniform Jackets

[twighead]

Are they cool or are they for spikey hair, Tom Cruise wannabe's.

. . . yes I am that bored.

 

[fastback]

Are they cool or are they for spikey hair, Tom Cruise wannabe's.

. . . yes I am that bored.

first!!

 

[Goose Egg]

2nd, and I really don't have an opinion either way.

-Goose

 

[viper548]

Good for when it's cold outside

 

[Edge540]

Are they cool or are they for spikey hair, Tom Cruise wannabe's.

. . . yes I am that bored.

I want one. Can I borrow $500?

 

[V-1]

It's payroll deductible for the next ten years.

 

[pdub20s]

I want one. Can I borrow $500?

Just ask the flat chested tranny LOL

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Uncool. Unless you want to look more like Fonzi.

 

[Hootie9750]

What's really cool and non-homo is a navy blazer and a stalker trenchcoat coupled with a 20k W2 and topped off with a chauffer hat.

 

[BcPilot99]

Uncool. Unless you want to look more like Fonzi.

EEEHHHHH!!!!!

 

[SEVEN]

Very tacky and unprofessional. Pilots who wear those in front of passengers should be sent home and suspended indefinetely without pay.

 

[twighead]

What's really cool and non-homo is a navy blazer and a stalker trenchcoat coupled with a 20k W2 and topped off with a chauffer hat.

Rofl.

 

[flyboyike]

It's not that I find the leather jacket particularly cool, it's just that I find the trenchcoat rather bulky and cumbersome.

 

[n32jk]

Very tacky and unprofessional. Pilots who wear those in front of passengers should be sent home and suspended indefinetely without pay.

From a marketing standpoint I do not think they are the image we (especially the regionals) want to paint. However, the company made the decision that these are a standard uniform issue. Since the 9E CRJ's have no coat space (taken up by the NW extended extra galley carts for the meal services), there is little space for blazer and trench coats. I finally broke down and got one. They are less bulky than the combination. I wear a blazer in moderate temps. But for this 20 below crap, I wear the leather. Even mainlines are allowing it now and hats appear to be history.

 

[FlySacto]

What's really cool and non-homo is a navy blazer and a stalker trenchcoat coupled with a 20k W2 and topped off with a chauffer hat.

BINGO! And what's the scoop with the sweaters and epaulets!? Are you a pilot or Mr. Roger's spawn? I say the leather AND the hat is the way to go. The hat keeps the glue from getting washed out of your hair during a downpour and you can strip the leather jacket down to wear when away from the airport. When you upgrade, just toss on the new bars and keep trucking. It is the best bang for the buck.

 

[gnx99]

I'd take one over a trenchcoat, simply because they are far more funtional. Maybe in the spring it's fine, but on a cold MN/ND/WI/MI morning, the trenchcoat is pure garbage. Flying for Mesaba, you often are dealing with -20F (and colder) mornings, in a Saab, with no heat. The trenchcoat is a pathetic excuse for a winter jacket.

 

[Booker]

Pilots who wear those in front of passengers should be sent home and suspended indefinetely [sic] without pay.

Have your chief pilot call my chief pilot about it. Let me know how that goes.

Seriously, I could shive a git about what people wear, as long as it is compliant with their company's FOM. Personally, I don't own an all-weather coat, but I don't have to (for now, anyway).

 

[ReverseSensing]

Leather coats = functional, if not somewhat Fonzi-esque.

Leather coats with epaulets on the outside = queerer than the San Francisco phone book.

Trenchcoat = only suitable if you're also sporting a molestache and don't mind holding the tails back every time you take a piss (the coat tails, not the molestache tails).



I could be wrong, though.

 

[80for80]

My company furnishes for FREE, the Perrone leather jacket as an optional uniform item.

 

[relief tube]

and you still have a pension, just rub it in some more..

Yeah, no eppaullets (spelling it wrong) on the jacket...almost as funny looking as indoor sunglass guy.

 

[Occam's Razor]

If we were serious about leather flight jackets, they'd be one of two options:

1. USN/USMC "cruise" jackets. Brown, with faded fur collars and ratty, torn cuffs. Huge colorful patches denoting weiner-chafing stretches at sea, or 100-traps on an old scow that puts you on "water hours" every 3 days. (No...I don't miss "Midway Magic"!). Road-Warrior name tags with cool names like "Max Knots" and "Bud Fugger". They must be brown goatskin...covered with coffee and skydrol stains, and must not match the uniform you're wearing them with.

2. REAL leather jackets! Fuzzy-side-out deerskin, in a western cut, with 6-inch long fringe! Dusty-brown in color, and always one-size too large. (Optional: A$$less chaps with your airline's logo branded into the right thigh)

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I say the leather AND the hat is the way to go.

It seems uniform choice is like a merger... no one is happy with the choices or results...

The trench coat is standard...

The leather is all too common now... Only the DAL boys don't wear them...

The hat? Whenever a organization wants to specify the image of an Air Line Pilot...there is the hat.....

 

[PCL_128]

Are they cool or are they for spikey hair, Tom Cruise wannabe's.

The latter.

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.

 

[CFI2766]

What's really cool and non-homo is a navy blazer and a stalker trenchcoat coupled with a 20k W2 and topped off with a chauffer hat.

Wait a minute, I resemble that remark...

damn it...

 

[LanceAir]

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.[/quote]


Right.....:erm:

What would you suggest wearing in the COLD weather then, a windbreaker?

I dont know much about Memphis, (and quite honestly, I am really happy about that) but up in the north it's cold.....the blazer and the trench just don't cut it. Youre welcome to come "hangout" with me on the LGA ramp, I'll be warm, wearing a "gay" leather jacket, and you can stand there in your blazer and trench knowing that you look super "hetero" and not like a ******************************bag.......

 

[PCL_128]

What would you suggest wearing in the COLD weather then, a windbreaker?

Blazer and trench coat. If you're still cold, then wear thermal underwear. I feel just fine with the trenchcoat, though, and I'm based up north in DTW.

 

[belchfire]

Leather is more durable, more functional and if the taco bell sauce gets on it you just have to wipe it off. You don't have to drag around the striped polyester lounge lizzard jacked (I fly a freighter, not the Graf Zepplin or a Pan Am Clipper) a trench coat and another coat to wear out to the bar for supper. All of this and they piss PETA off too! What more could you ask from a jacket?

PCL, if you want to run around looking like a throwback to the '40's, that's fine for you. Too bad you'll never have the pay or the respect your fancy ugliform commands...

 

[AAslag]

The latter.

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.

If you're wearing a trench coat, then you look like a d0uchbag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Trench coats are just plain gay in any situation.

I'm a spy, and I should know!

 

[Booker]

If you're wearing a leather jacket, then you look like a d0uchebag. I'm not just talking about in uniform, either. Leather jackets are just plain gay in any situation.

Well that changes my mind.

 

[Nindiri]

Do they even still make the blazers?:nuts: I haven't worn one in years. I either wear the leather jacket or the trenchcoat without the blazer, depending on which kind of "gay" I decide to look like that day.