While gaudy in their own right, Avirex jackets were the perfect antithesis (hood fashion-wise) to all that shiny, tacky, Y2K meets R2D2 sh1t that was poppin at the end of the 90s.
While the shiny clothing represented "Party like it's 1999," the Avirex represented a slow, meticulous, flashback to the good and bad of the soon-coming-to-an-end 20th century. Kinda like when you buy either your first house or your dream house, and you pack that last box in the car, and you hop in behind the wheel. Before you peel off, you take one last, long look at the place you're leaving. You take a nice, hefty puff off that cigar in your left hand, smiling contentedly because you know whatever you did there, you did it right. Then you go.
That's the Avirex jacket.