The Top 40

Other than the waist belt, scalloped pocket lids, and brass buttons, it looks very similar to my Vietnam era army field jacket.

You beat me to it, GS. The army field jacket I wore in Korea decades ago remains the most utilitarian garment I've ever had.

I've got one without sleeves. Actually wore it in the bush in Africa. Damn fine vest.

That picture of Hemingway always looked like an dictionary illustration for "Pluperfect Asshole."

Always thought safari jackets looked like a great and practical bit of road gear, but because of the Hairy-Chested image they look like a compensation device for a tiny penis.

This is a favorite garment of metrosexuals.

Imagine walking around some city wearing one?

Or going upcountry to Long Island or the Wisconsin Dells?

Saturday at Starbucks, with hunnert dollar jeans, two hunnert dollar sneakers and one of these.

My field jacket has been hanging in the closet since shortly after I got out as somehow it started to get smaller.....

I vote for the military flying suit. Six big pockets and four or so little ones. Wore it proudly for 25 years - on the flight line. We weren't allowed to wear them elsewhere back then, so couldn't flaunt our macho in public (if we had any).

Those jackets work for everything but for that which they were intended. The vest type makes a great photographer's vest with places for pens, note books lenses, filters and assorted accessories. Beats lugging around a hard camera bad.

And an Orvis soft fishing bag is a great camera bag instead of the hard case. Wraps around the hip.

I can't recommend that vest, for efficiency reasons. My wife gave me one a few years ago and the first time I wore it I lost my phone in it. What with all the multiple layers of pockets over top of pockets, my phone was ringing but by the time I got to it the caller hung up.

Haven't worn it since and I think the change from lunch is in one of them pockets....

One correction on the quote. Teddy wouldn't have carried shotgun shells in the twenties. He died in 1919.

Up here in Canada we make them plaid and wear them like big shirts.

And the belt and epaulettes in the picture are kinda froggy-faggy, n'est ce pas?

The post said, "Nonetheless, whether you’re Teddy Roosevelt lugging shotgun shells in the twenties,..."
Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919. January of that year in fact. What kind of douche nozzles write this shit?

Also, "That picture of Hemingway always looked like an dictionary illustration for "Pluperfect Asshole." made me almost spill my coffee laughing. I was thinking the same thing.