#mac jacket

The green Mac Jacket was rarer than red but not as rare as the bright blue in the early 70’s.

If a guy walked up to you wearing a Mac Jacket and Dayton double soled Black Beauties…Well, best be polite.

Eve Crane photography

Here are the three common Mac jacket plaids, each one pictured are original vintage and each plaid had a significant connection to your geography and rock n roll or punk rocking smoking pit hanging class skipping dayton wearing self. I seem to remember it like this. 1. Red and Black was the Burnaby rocker but that stretched to Surrey and all points throughout the country and for sure you wore Dayton boots or some other shit kicking option. You either listened to Van Halen or you were a Punk and you hated Van Halen. so you wore high-tops. it looked great without sleeves but best when it was under a jean jacket or leather and cut along the bottom so that it was frayed and ratty looking…some people even cut them all the way half except for Randy Bowman who insists that the cool dudes wore it over sized and too big…??? 2. The Lavender Blue and Red combo. it is known as the Kenora dinner jacket by many a Canukle head from Ontario. but here in BC it wasn't as common as the standard Red and Black. For some reason I believe it to be the North Van Rocker Mac perhaps because Tony Bardach wears one to this day and he told me so. 3. The Green and Black Mac is an interesting one and anybody that I knew who wore one was like a fan of Deep Purple or King Crimson they really dug Rush or they were from Vancouver Island or something. you know, the thinking mans Mac. Now I'm sure everybody has their own variation on the origin and the location or rocker type these 3 plaids represent but one things for sure wearing one of these Macs is a Canadian rock n roll tradition.

(via Bradford Lambert)