/fa/ - Fashion

>>13089433
The general problem with the double rider jackets (asymetrical zips, belt, traditional collar with buttons or fur or both) is that they make your shoulders look narrow. If you're a stick figure like most rock musicians (due to drug use) it makes your shoulders look slightly wider than normal...but if you're in any way overweight or muscular, it tends to make your shoulders look narrower than they should and your biceps end up sticking out of the sides, outside of the traditional contour line that is usually delineated by the shoulder seam.

If >>13089580 is you, then you can probably go with that jacket, but bear in mind that what you postulated is most likely; that this style will affiliate you in the minds of strangers with either a biker gang, no matter what.

But this takes us into territory that is highly circumstantial. The perception of strangers to your clothing is entirely dependent on your geography. If you live in an area where ONLY biker gangs wear this, then you have to live with that association if you decide to pull the trigger. But for instance, this style is very popular in Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe as well, and they don't associate it with bikers as much as they do with simple 'counter-culture'.

In North America, it's a wide range. If you wear it in San Francisco, you're immediately part of the gay community. If you wear it in New York, you're a hipster wannabe, and if you're in Toronto, you're underdressed. The point is, what do the people around you perceive this jacket to be a sign of?