Sorry, should have pinged you too. See link above about jacket.
The text says:
“at columbia (undergrad)
Forget the Great Depression. The Great Decline can be traced to enrollment into Columbia University. Out is the afro and devil-may-care carriage. In is seriousness and an un-ironic leather Members Only jacket.”
Which suggests a figure of speech maybe and not that the jacket was some kind of uniform, surely?
Hmm, so how did you know? Is there something you need to fess up about? Come on, you saved your lawn mowing money to buy a Members Only jacket, right? ;)
That’s really hilarious he was supposedly so in love with that jacket he kept it all those years. Quick, someone needs to call Faleomavaega in case he can find it and put it in that president library he was buying up all those Indonesian records for.