India, Oct. 27 -- You can't go wrong with a bomber jacket.

And unlike every other main character silhouette being marketed as the next must-have hang in your wardrobe, the classic bomber, truly is, one-style-fits-all.

Now this one's a classic in its truest sense. Originally categorised as 'flight jackets' in 1917 by the US Army Aviation Clothing Board, it only took a couple of years for the chic silhouette's fashion-forwardness to surpass its utilitarian birth story. Originally created to keep pilots warm in the open-air cockpits, the flight jacket's sartorial arc of evolution developed right along side its utility.

Between World War I and World War II, US fighter planes too underwent significant shifts in their build, becoming closed ...