{"heading" :"There are iconic garments that arise from simple, unexpected innovations. Baracuta's G9, known all over the world as the Harrington Jacket, has become a symbol of youth and its subcultures, favoured by icons such as Elvis, James Dean and Damon Albarn, and adopted by British skinheads." }
From the American Ivy League college boys of the '50s to JFK’s classiness and Hollywood’s bad boys, through to British Mods, punks and skinheads, the Harrington Jacket was the uniform of elegance, rebellion, style and freedom, while always remaining true to itself. Making the Harrington Jacket an icon was not just the personalities who wore it, but its very nature as a symbolic object of change in men's fashion and a reflection of social and cultural changes.
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Its birth took place elsewhere, however; in a golf club in Manchester, when brothers John and Isaac Miller wanted to create a functional but smart jacket to wear during their games. When it saw the light in 1937, the G9 Jacket was completely revolutionary. The buttons, bulky heaviness and wool that became sodden in the rain were just a distant memory: now there was a zip instead of buttons, a stand collar fastened with two buttons for added protection from the elements, an “umbrella” back yoke to channel rain away, elastic cuffs that eliminated impact during swings and deep pockets to hold golf balls. A style designed for practicality, but also for the composure of the greens, almost aristocratic in its lines, thanks also to the lining in Fraser tartan, granted for use by the Fraser Clan Chief, Lord Lovat, but one which also drew inspiration from workwear for the details that made it so practical, so versatile, so classic.
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Without realizing it, John and Isaac Miller had created an icon, midway between tradition and subversion, a blank page that would become the favourite canvas of hundreds of different identities in the following decades: from the nonchalant classiness of the Ivy League to the wild energy of the skinheads, from the legend of James Dean to that of James Bond.
