Sleezy
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This might be due to the fact Michael Kaplan (Fight Club Costume Designer) may have altered the jacket in some ways.
I just figured he ripped the tags out. I guess it's not inconceivable that he might have dyed the jacket from brown to red. In my searches I seem to only run across brown leather blazers of that style and era (for men); red leather looks like it was predominantly reserved for women. That might be wrong, but it's certainly what I've observed.
Still one of the rare things to achieve might be the color. It's age (maybe 30 years old or more), fading, dirt and other alerations created a color that's very hard to match.
Well, that... plus, the film used a heavy contrast in lighting (like you said, many of the movie scenes are dark). I think the two artists who make a replica Tyler jacket tried to match the color as shown in the film, if anything to replicate that film look in public. I've seen people make tremendously accurate costumes that actually look wrong in person because colors so often appear dramatically different on film.