Old Ferrari Jacket?

Looks like a motorcycle jacket.

Noodle around on ebay, you're bound to find something close.

Should have a label inside as well with size and perhaps country of manufacture.

There have been tons of iterations of these over the years.

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tinypic is a known vector for malware.

 

That jacket is not licensed, so it was probably made by a fan.

 

Unless Ferrari has moved to Pakistan and I wasn't aware??
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If I saw what I think i saw. Zippered sleeves equals probable based on a motorcycle jacket. Bruce

 

Def a motorcycle jacket that the Ferrari pieces were added to-did your father give you any info on it? Something this old could could have easily gotten the nod from ferrari-who knows. Didn't Ducati and Fcar have some connection years ago?

 

I have a similar jacket made at a custom shop in Mexico. The jackets are frequently made in Asia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mexico, etc where leather and labor for custom work is cheap. That one looks like a $60-100 jacket at on of these shops that would easily retail for $500+ here stateside. The workmanship is usually pretty good to exceptional if you go to a good shop.

I know one shop in Korea that I visited that did commercial bulk orders and put whatever label the ordering firm wanted or provided and had bins of sponsor logos and patches (Motul, Perrelli, Mobil, etc) ready to go on based on how you wanted it or they would custom make them.

Regarding "licensed product" for the unknowing...most textiles are made in Asia, so if you get out your "licensed" jackets, caps, and shirts and look at the label you will find it was not from Italy. My Official Santander team jacket "licensed" was made in China and tshirts/polos from Bangladesh and what you proudly paid $80-100 for at the dealer, Ferrari shop, or Puma shop actually cost about $2 to make at these textile venders who are often making items for old navy, target, Ralph Lauren, all side by side or cued up in their production orders.

 

$2...must be the shipping and handling that jacks up the price! I'm amazed we aren't all driving cars that were made in these places yet-I just hope they manufacture some manuals!

 

Well when you pay workers nothing you can sell your wholesale lots for what appears to be nothing. In the 90s I was in Honduras and they were making Tommy Hilfiger polos at a factory near the coast and the workers got .55 a shirt they made, so there was an incentive base for high producers in the shop to crank out shirts quickly. Additionally I was on an international flight with a high end clothing buyer for one of the luxury brands and we were discussing industry markups and he noted their markup was typically 800% on the low end and they we're moving their operations to Eastern Europe to bring down costs even further.

Why do you think clothes can be marked down 75% on clearance and sellers deal with shoplifting and overhead costs and still the retailer rakes in profits at an upscale retailer.

 

The posters are right about the extremely cheap cost to produce goods. Was at a power boat race a while back, Mercury Marine had a booth. I bought one of their ball caps for $24.00, noticed it was made in China! Slave labor is alive and well in lots of places besides Walmart and McDonald's!

 

Heck-if you live in these places you probably have to step on and over even the best of your pals just to work at mcdonalds!