AW1986 Stone Island Foul Weather Raso Gommato Jacket + AW1987 PVC Version Another set of examples referencing the British Royal Navy MKIII Foul Weather Parka. If theres anything one should learn from Massimo Osti, it’s totally okay to mix your own ideas with other studies. And there’s a percentage now! Virgil’s 3% theory inspired by Duchamp. But up to you how ethical you want to be 😉🫣 The Raso Gommato, satin weave cotton of military origin with applied polyurethane cover, was introed in 1984. Scan done by @bluefin__ shows the original poster for the jacket. These SI jackets being made a few years after the Falkland Wars show, yet again, how products of specialized use, especially from wars, feeds into culture. Once again, the MKIII was developed in the 70s and issued in the 80s. The SI insta pages call Osti’s jackets experimental (in terms of fabric, sure), but to what extent (in terms of design)? If these jackets were hated by the people they were specifically issued for, couldn’t we expect the same from the civilian consumer side? The riveted holes along the insulated mouth were once to unmuffle voices to communicate on deck, but now they only seem to help the influencers unmuffle their virtue signaling voice online. “Never got a draft, so all we got is drip.”