Fringe jackets on guys?

[Delwooddude]

Got this online last week. What do you think? The fringe on the backmisc14 inches long!!

 

[Bennarion]

Great jacket. This style suits you very well.

 

[Edward]

I remember these being popular in the 70s and into the eighties. They're not for me, but vive la difference. The longer fringes always struck me as more American in style; the British fringed jackets tended to have shorter fringes that didn't hang the same way, though AFAIK they're both inspired ultimately by the same First Nations styles.

I often wonder when the earliest examples of fringed jackets in a black leather MC rather than a non-suede/Western style appeared on the market. Mid-late sixties are the earliest I've seen i the UK, but I'm sure there must be earlier?

 

[Zoro]

Not for me, but I'm sure Rob Halford approves.

 

[Edward]

Not for me, but I'm sure Rob Halford approves.

Fringing on leathers definitely had its moment in the sun during the whole New Wave of British Heavy Metal. I remember about 1989 a friend at school had a fringed Perfecto-style jacket with a ***s n' Roses logo sprayed on the back, which would have been the next big phase of the (loosely speaking) metal world.

 

[Cyber Lip]

I remember fringe biker jackets peaking in popularity in the late 80's when hair metal bands like bon jovi etc started wearing them. Fringe was cool a couple years before that when cooler bands of the cowpunk/glam-punk ilk adopted it and brought it out of the thrift shops. Then in the late 80's the hair metal guys ripped off style elements of those bands and made it mainstream, but in a very tasteless lame and goofy way, which is the reason people laugh at it today

 

[Bfd70]

I was going to say “no” but since you appear willing to run the full kit, why not.

 

[TLW '90]

The right person can definitely pull it off, not me but it can be done.

 

[Khilij]

Why not? You're rocking it. Beyond my capabilities though.

 

[gainghiskhan]

The pants definitely sell the look.