{"product_id":"jefferson-track-jacket-size-l","title":"Vintage \"Jefferson\" 42 Track Jacket, Talon Zip - Cobalt and Yellow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCobalt blue and yellow\u003c\/strong\u003e, with striped ribbed knit at the collar, cuffs and hem, and a \u003cstrong\u003ewhite Talon zipper\u003c\/strong\u003e up the front. \u003cstrong\u003eJEFFERSON\u003c\/strong\u003e screen printed across the back, and a \u003cstrong\u003ewinged shoe with the number 42\u003c\/strong\u003e on the chest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeasured flat: chest 46 (23 pit to pit), length 26, sleeve 26, shoulder 21.5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Twenty-six inches of length on a forty-six inch chest is a generously cut jacket that sits at the hip rather than above it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fits like a modern Women's L or Men's XL.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition is good.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCobalt and yellow is school-colours thinking - two flat, loud, unmissable colours chosen to be told apart from the other side of a field. Nobody picks that palette for a jacket. They pick it for a team, and the jacket follows. The striped rib at the collar, cuffs and hem is the same language a varsity jacket speaks, and the white zipper is a third colour somebody chose on purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe maker's tag is still sewn in and has faded completely white.\u003c\/strong\u003e Not cut out - worn blank, every letter gone. So there is no brand, no fibre and no country. A label that has lost all its print has been through a great many washes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhich leaves the zipper to date it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Talon made most American zippers for decades and lost the market to YKK through the seventies and eighties, so a Talon pull puts this jacket before that changeover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe winged foot is track and field's emblem, and it is older than the sport.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is the \u003cem\u003etalaria\u003c\/em\u003e - the winged sandals of Hermes, Mercury to the Romans, the god who carried good news and carried it fast. American schools put it on athletics kit for the whole of the last century because it means one thing: speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 42 is unexplained.\u003c\/strong\u003e On a track jacket a number across the chest is usually the athlete's own. On a letter garment it is often the graduating year. Nothing on the jacket settles it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA name across the back means a team, and a team means a school.\u003c\/strong\u003e Jefferson is among the commonest school names in America - there are Jefferson Highs in dozens of states - and nothing on the garment says which.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomebody ran for a squad in this. These were not sold to fans; they were issued to the people on the team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. Sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo returns - as is.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unsigned","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44417502969943,"sku":"MT-TR-178","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0034\/8692\/files\/IMG_6801.jpg?v=1792535225","url":"https:\/\/shopmille.com\/products\/jefferson-track-jacket-size-l","provider":"MILLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}