Yo, who remembers the day of the Starter Jacket? As painful as it might be, each week I am going to start reminding you of something from your past. This week, the Starter Jacket came to mind.
I believe I was in 9th grade when they became the must have jacket of the decade. I had a Dodgers Starter Jacket and I’m pretty sure I wore it every single day for about two years. The funny thing was, Starter Jackets were actually cheap pieces of junk, if it wasn’t for their popularization through hip-hop, they would have remained unsold, and unappreciated on a dusty rack at Wal-Mart.
Unfortunately they got so popular, that kids were killing other kids for their Starters, and a silly jacket became a basic measure of coolness. It did after all have a large pocket in the front that was good for carrying a walkman, a pack of smokes, a small bag of weed, a few blunts, and one Kiwi-Strawberry Snapple. Most importantly, you could poke a hole in the lining of the large center pocket and stash a dime bag in the jacket that “Jake” would never find.
If you want to relive the glory days, or try to bring the Starter back, you can find plenty of them on Ebay. Check em out HERE
