| “ | What are the things that you dream? I mean, your car? That's Dad's. Your favorite leather jacket? Dad's. | ” |
Dean Winchester's leather jacket was an iconic part of the character. There's no telling how old the leather is, how many battles the jacket has actually seen, though it is well worn and beautiful.
History[]
The leather jacket once belonged to John Winchester. In 1997, his son Dean briefly wore this jacket while attending Truman High.
In 2005, after John disappeared, he left the leather jacket in his motel room. Adult Dean took a shower and picked it up from a pile of clothing. He then went to pick up his brother Sam from Stanford.
Dean wore this jacket for about five years and was important to him as much as his amulet was. Dean never showed signs of wanting to discard it, but one year after The Apocalypse was stopped, Dean no longer wore the jacket.
Appearances[]
- Season 10
- Reichenbach (in flashback)
- Season 11
- The Devil in the Details (in flashback)
Trivia[]
- This jacket appears to be a Wilsons Leather/M.Julian.[1]
- Dean's leather jacket is similar to the one worn by Mark Taffin of the movie of the same name. Though the movie's jacket has very similar distressing, it had peaked lapels and a larger collar similar to a peacoat and also has a half belt across the back.
- In September 2010, new promo shots were being done for the upcoming Season 6. The shoot was in Los Angeles and the wardrobe was flown down from Vancouver a few days before, and was stolen somewhere along the way. Items taken included one of Castiel's trench coats and Dean's Leather Jacket. Although wardrobe had replacements for Castiel's trench coat, Dean's Leather Jacket was sadly one of a kind. The jacket (or at least a facsimile) is seen in the flashback to a younger Dean at the beginning of Reichenbach.
- 4 years later, Jensen Ackles released a touching post in memory of the lost jacket.[2]
- Dean states, in Dream A Little Dream Of Me, that his "favorite leather jacket" used to belong to his father. We never actually see John wear the leather jacket. He wears a similar jacket in the flashback in Something Wicked, but it has different buttons and a horizontal seam across the breast that Dean's leather jacket does not have.
- In the last two episodes of season 7, Dean is seen wearing a new leather jacket which he wears while killing Dick Roman and getting dragged into Purgatory. He even hides the Leviathan-killing bone inside one of the pockets with the fake bone in the other. While he is not shown wearing it after leaving Purgatory, the jacket is briefly seen in a flashback when he first meets Benny in Purgatory. When shown, it is very dirty due to Dean's time in Purgatory and was presumably lost somewhere along the way while escaping.
- According to Jensen Ackles at Jus In Bello Italy 2013, although this jacket was specially designed for him, the producers ended up hating the colour and production was told to get rid of it - hence its disappearance after Dean escapes Purgatory.
