As long as Mac doesn't dress like Michael Jackson . . .

Mac must have had a huge closet or rented an auxillary storage place just for his gear. I've noticed that Mac wears a jacket that I have had since the 80's. The jacket is olive green and has a red plaid interior lining. It is made by Eddie Bauer and is nice and warm being lined with EB's goose down. It looks like when the show moved to Vancouver this jacket may have replaced other ones that were used in So Cal since it was probably a lot cooler shooting in the fall and winter. Additional details include brass sleeve buttons. I don't get to wear mine much anymore having moved from a medium to a large as a result of a fatty food diet and a propensity to drink beer instead of diet soft drinks and juice.

Mrtape, can you give us an episode and scene that the jacket can be seen in so we can get a visual?

Will review the DVD episodes and report. Hopefully by tomorrow.

Will review the DVD episodes and report. Hopefully by tomorrow.

Okay look at the episode For Love or Money 2nd Season Disc 6 on the complete set. Although the coat appears in other episodes this is the one. You may have miss ID it but trust me it's the Mid to Late 80's Eddie Bauer model.

Does it have a style name or any other identifiable information?

I'll check the coat (consigned to the attic) for a name inside. Since they change catalogs several times a year and often recycle the same styles but with new names I may be able to turn up the original name. Will let you know.

So, digging up a really old thread here:

Has anyone watching MacGyver lately paid attention to his cargo pants and khakis? We've found out the brand of the leather jacket, so narrowing it down on the brand of his pants might be the next big mission.
Modern military-issue pants don't seem to be right, as they appear to be too baggy in thelegs. Mac's pants always appeared to be really well fitting.

Oh, and look what I discovered in the German Eddie Bauer store:

they also seemed to have only 1 leg pocket and it was more on the front than the side.

I think that's the one in "Birthday". There are some good shots of his cargo pants and their details (like buttons an some sort of clip in the are of his calves) in "The Golden Triangle".
And judging form the soles of his boots and their diamond pattern, Mac is wearing USMC Roughouts/ Boondockers.

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I'd love to know more about some of those "no collar" shirts he wore too. I always thought they were quite unique to MacGyver, because I've never seen anyone else wearing them.

Those collarless shirt styles are often referred to as "Grandfather collared" tops and shirts...

They can be further sub-divided by whether they have buttons or studs, and the number of buttons (e.g. 2, 3 or 4 button "plackets"..)

The best places to find these "undershirts" ( ) of the type that MacGyver would wear could probably be among the thermal tops in camping/outdoors or sporting stores.

Army pants, worldwide, have been updated a couple of times since the 1980's ~ easier and more comfortable fit, more polyester in the mix, "disruptive" camouflage patterns...

It WOULD be easier these days to look to some of the brand names in hiking and travel cargo pants ~ like Columbia, North Face, Mountain Hardwear, and Kathmandu, (just as examples..) ~ as some of them probably look more like those that Mac' wore, back when..

Those collarless shirt styles are often referred to as "Grandfather collared" tops and shirts...

They can be further sub-divided by whether they have buttons or studs, and the number of buttons (e.g. 2, 3 or 4 button "plackets"..)

The best places to find these "undershirts" ( ) of the type that MacGyver would wear could probably be among the thermal tops in camping/outdoors or sporting stores.

I think that post was talking about the outer shorts with the "Chinese style" collar, not the undershirts.

Just to be pedantic, for a moment ~

Those "Chinese" style shirts aren't exactly "collar-less", as they do have short stand up collars (only a centimetre or two, but it's still a collar, whereas the Indian (Nauru) collars are a few centimetres in height, and the higher "Mandarin" collars can be a few inches..).

Those short/low-collared shirts can also be seen in places like Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia, as well ~ so that's conceivably where MacGyver could have picked them up?

And somebody had mentioned those "collarless" shirts early on in this thread..

I have a shirt exactly like that, which has been in my closet for a few decades. Is it a MacGyver-style shirt? I honestly can't remember.

On the subject of Mac's Cargo pants. I know they bought some of his clothing from Banana Republic. Remember when Banana Republic used to actually sell adventure style clothing instead of the ho-hum stuff they sell now. I haven't shopped at BR in over 15 years for that very reason.

Now on to other pieces of clothing Mac wore.

In "Mask of the Wolf" the big blue winter jacket Mac is wearing is a NorthFace jacket. How do I know, I went out and bought one right after the episode originally aired. I figured if I wanted one I better get it quick, as there was no way of telling how long it was purchased before the episode was filmed. I will forward the specifics from the jacket tag if you'd like them.

Mac also wore black Sorel brand boots, with the gators already built in, in several episodes, including "Mask of the Wolf". I own a pair of these boots as well and will forward the information.

I have information on other items he wore, which I'll share as soon as I can.

Very cool. Would love to see the tag information of this and all the other stuff you have.

Miasma,

That is definately a MacGyver style shirt. I love the banded collar style and own several of them in different colors. It's not a style you see very often, which makes it all the more cool . . . IMHO.

Don't forget the Reeboks he wore in Lost Love when he was in the Chinese parade.

Hasn't one of Mac's brown leather bomber jackets got a lining with red polka-dots? Is there picture, preferably a close-up of the lining, somewhere around here? I've won an auction on a leather jacket on the bay, which has got button and not the zippered cargo pockets. As I don't like the polyester lining I'm thinking about changing it to something more Mac-like.

Right now on ebay someone is selling a 80s MacGyver TV SERIES CREW Letterman Jacket but that jacket is almost 800 dollars. i can have one made for much less then that.

This is pictures of my Nike Sky Force 88 Vintage shoes. These are quite similar like Mac's Nike Court Force shoes, what he used in 3 season.


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Rear view

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Bottom is same as in Nike Court Force shoes

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Has anyone tried looking up nehru shirts? It's basically another name for the banded type collar but it seems to yield better search results. I've found a few different styles of these shirts by using nehru as a keyword on Google, etc.

Wow! Nice kicks MiracleMac! I ordered few months ago from the net new nike mach forces in white and those have same basketball picture on tangs. I have found court forces from fleemarket, but they are little small for me. It's funny i have seen court forces on the net, but they are allways been womens shoes?
By the way about a week ago i found timex expedition watch for eight euros from fleemarket,so i had to get it because i know it's a MacGyver watch brand!

I read that, Timex watches importing to Finland finished about four years ago, But I think its chepear to order from the net. Those my Sky Forces cost about 90,95 euros.

I owned a pair of the NIKE Court Force High Tops just like Mac wore. I remember pausing the VHS recording and scrutinizing the close-up of the shoes when Mac stepped on the pressure plate. I wore the heck out of them and they were long ago thrown away. I know, I know . . . stupid, stupid, stupid.

As far as the black NIKE high tops he wore, back in the day when I called the wardrobe department, when they were filming in Vancouver, the head wardrobe guy told me they were purchased in Canada, which explains why I couldn't find a pair here in Colorado. I took a picture (a polaroid taken of the paused vhs tape) to several different shoe stores and no one had ever seen them. I'd still like to have a pair just to add to my costume and prop collection.

The photo below is of my pair of SCOTT brand ski goggles, just like the ones RDA wore at the beginning of "Out in the Cold". I've worn these only a few times, never skiing though. I found these by chance, in 1988 I think, at Gart Bros., now Sports Authority here in Denver, CO.