LOVE this denim-on-white-denim look. Especially the way all the collars/neck elements work together. So cool!

Since I was one of the people bemusing you by thinking the moto didn't look like you... I think it is because a classic BLACK moto is to me very masculine and very retro-fifties-or-punk. James Dean. The Fonz. Grease. Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Steve McQueen. The Terminator... these jackets were banned from schools in the 50s!

So it's not that I don't think these jackets are iconic or classic or artsy; it's that it is hard for me to reconcile the Black Moto Jacket Icons I grew up with as being your style icons.

Like Rae, I have to chime in that just because I didn't think that that particular moto was best on you, doesn't mean that I don't like them in general (I think they are iconic, classic, and can be worn artsy). I own and wear a classic black moto; and have three other motos: in cream, cognac, and turquoise. It's just that in my opinion that one was too harsh/hard edge for you, for whatever reason it looked to me in the photos -- and I saw the jacket way before I saw you in it.

I definitely think you need a moto, but only that you should keep looking!

Thanks, Rae and Claudia. I think I AM going to keep looking. Good as this one is in many ways, it's just not worth the extra $$ to alter it, I suspect. Ah well. Pennies saved now are pennies better spent later!