Point taken. But - bomber / flying jacket doesn't look military, it just looks cool, especially when well broken in. Barbour jackets are pretty much standard wear for English farmers and country types - again, they look ok when well broken in. When new, they have that yucky sticky texture and are stiff as cardboard. They aint got the style until they're old and settled.....
It's a personal preference thing of course, but that Barbour Enfield jacket is going to take a lot of breaking in before it's rumpled enough to look good on a bike rather than fresh out of West Point .....
If it's
the look you're after - leather jacket. Black. No substitute.
White scarf if you must - but grubby, and silk. And certainly not with that shiny new jacket if you don't want to look like a male model. Easy to get this look wrong - works best when it evolves naturally .......
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That makes perfect sense to me.I have read that the barbour style jacket is used throughout the UK for a variety of outdoor activities including farming, I would'nt want that association either. I think fashion can mean completely diffirent things to people especially when culturally speaking the country one lives in. Here in the US the Barbour doesn't have such connections to the country. In fact there is a type of stygma attached to the black leather perfecto style jacket that I am trying to avoid, on a motorcycle I don't want to appear as a "harley guy". I also don't want to look like a ricerocket ninja with a brightly colored textile jacket. I definately agree with the broken in part, I guess the best thing to do is buy an originl well used vintage jacket.