Vintage Sears Western Jacket Green Corduroy Bomber Burnt Orange Pile 70s

A 1970s Sears Western Wear bomber in green cotton corduroy, lined in burnt orange acrylic pile, with a YKK zipper, ribbed waist and collar insert, and decorative metal cuff buttons. The color combination alone places this firmly in its decade — earth-tone green and burnt orange is the 1970s in two swatches.

Sears Western Wear is one of those quiet workhorse labels that gets overlooked in favor of flashier marquee brands, and that’s exactly what makes it interesting. Through the 1960s and 70s, Sears operated as the largest retailer in America, and their Western Wear line was how a huge swath of the country actually dressed Western — not the rodeo circuit pieces, but the everyday ranch-adjacent jackets, shirts, and boots worn from Oklahoma to Oregon. The pieces were manufactured to catalog-house standards, which in that era meant real cotton corduroy, real metal hardware, and construction that has outlasted plenty of its name-brand contemporaries.

The corduroy bomber silhouette with a pile-lined interior is a specific 70s sub-genre — the cold-weather answer to the lighter ranch jacket, designed to be thrown on over a flannel without losing the Western cut. Ribbed knit at the waist and collar pulls it toward the bomber family, while the snap-free zip closure and clean front read more catalog-functional than rodeo-decorative.

A relic of the era when the Sears catalog was the closest thing America had to a national wardrobe.