The advertisements in the back of the old Warren comic magazines used to freak me out in a weirdly specific way, but I still haven't ever wanted anything in life as much as I want one of those fucking beautiful BattleStar Galactica jackets.
The original TV show was a cheap and cheerful rip-off of Star Wars, but they still had some terrific production designs - the Cylons and their slivers of ships are shiny, gleaming death, while the thrusting vipers flown by the colonial pilots is an aesthetic that extends to the way their helmets follow Egyptian lines, and their hair flows in full 70s glory. And their brown denim jackets with the gleaming golden buckles were just so fucking cool.
To be honest, if I could have any piece of clothing from the show, it would be those glorious chunky boots the battlestar's warriors trod about in, but I salivated over those ads for the jackets in the back of those magazines for years, and I remain convinced I would look so cool in one of them. Especially with those golden buckles.
You can get cheap cosplay versions of the jackets on ebay easily enough, or even a vintage one from the 70s for a few hundred bucks (and a few hundred more to send to this part of the world). They don't look quite as cool as they did in those long lost advertisements, but they are still so tempting. I'm sure I would look great.
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