I saw a listing on instagram today for a Swedish Army Motorcycle Dispatch Biker Jacket, which led me down an old rabbit hole: trying to identify my favorite piece of gear in Covenant; Karine's jacket. It has some strong resemblance to a vintage swedish jacket, and also some differences.
The main feature of Karine's jacket is that the Covenant crew patch is plastered right on to the chest, unlike anyone else's. The patch is located on a front chest pocket that Swedish jackets do have. Karine's jacket also has several buttons closures down the right side of the jacket, as does a tanker/motorcycle jacket.
I have not been able to find a Swedish Army Motorcycle Dispatch Biker Jacket in Tan, olive drab/green and leather seem 'common'.
Karine's jacket also seems much more of a light weight, medium cotton, very similar construction to Oram's Swedish military anorak, rather than the super heavy thread versions I've seen of the Moto jacket. Karine is also seen to have a big hood in Covenant, which I haven't seen on any moto/tanker's, but could also easily be a under layer.
It's easy to write off the movie jacket as a "one off production made" piece but I hate to do that, it's just not something we saw, with maybe the exception of Walter's expedition gear, in the movie. I feel like it is a less commonly seen version of a WW1/WW2 era jacket that is out there! Anyway, thread bump!
This construction:
but this jacket: