Gear: Chapter 6

Speaker 0· Soundbite0:01

(music plays) All right, everybody, wake yourselves up. Get your equipment together. Let's go, let's move, move, move. Fall out right now. Platoon, at close interval. Chapter six.

Avery Trufelman· Host0:12

I couldn't help myself. When I was at Natick, I just loved the beautiful leather shearling coat that retired Lieutenant Colonel David Accetta was wearing.

David Accetta· Guest0:21

This is leather and sheep skin.

Avery Trufelman· Host0:22

Yeah. It was so perfect, it was like the platonic ideal of an authentic military flight jacket.

David Accetta· Guest0:28

And historically, that was very warm and very durable.

Avery Trufelman· Host0:32

And then, David Accetta opened the inside of the coat and revealed the label.

David Accetta· Guest0:36

This is actually- Stüssy?

Avery Trufelman· Host0:38

No. Get out. And it wasn't an authentic flight jacket. It was from a street wear brand.

David Accetta· Guest0:44

I didn't know who that was- Yeah, yeah, yeah. ... until my son was looking at the jacket, and he told me, and he said, "Is that Stüssy?" And I said, "What's Stüssy?"

Avery Trufelman· Host0:53

This is a very valuable jacket actually. (laughs) I want David's jacket so badly, it's so great. But that's so funny, right? The fashion interpretation of military was good enough for an actual veteran, who works on a military base, to wear at work. The military and fashion are intertwined. In the United States of America, the military and fashion designers have been locked in this ongoing embrace throughout the 20th century. Ever since that moment when civilian fashion designers started adapting the patterns of the M43 jacket that they helped make. And similarly, fashion