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| In 2007, Belstaff, the Italian based (originally English) designer of upscale
rugged wear and motorcycle gear, released the Steve McQueen Trialmaster jacket under a marketing campaign labeled the
"Steve McQueen Celebration".
This particular 2007 McQueen Trialmaster is modeled after the jacket Steve wore at the
International 6 Day Trials in East Germany in 1964 , but it should be noted that the jacket Steve wore in Germany was not a
Belstaff but a Barbour. The reason Belstaff claims the honor of releasing this jacket under the McQueen name
is because Steve actually wore a Belstaff Trialmaster jacket when biking.
This new Belstaff incarnation of McQueen's Six Day Trials jacket utilizes a new technology called PCM®
which actually causes the jacket to modify its temperature in accordance with the wearer's own body-temperature
changes (in other words it becomes warmer when the body temperature drops and cools itself when the body temperature rises).
Now that's pretty Cool! |
The 2007 Belstaff Steve McQueen Trialmaster jacket
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