To Charles McPharlin, this design is awfully familiar.

That is essentially a- a five button US Army sweater.

Instead of it being fleece, it's wool, but it acts the same purpose.

It is that mid-layer between your base layers and the outer wind-resistant layer.

They became conventional bourgeoisie, but they kept their Grateful Dead records, and their penchant for surplus field jackets."

You have Woody Allen wearing military surplus to go to the Art House Theater in Annie Hall.

You have Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer playing a father going through a divorce, living on the Upper West Side, and he's wearing an M65 field jacket.

It's really in the post-hippie, post-Vietnam era when these things start to go mainstream, and I think the key to that is the brand Banana Republic.