From My So-Called Life to the Marlboro Man, the sherpa is the ultimate coming of age jacket When I was 15, I spent two paychecks-worth of cash on my first big clothing purchase: a Levi's sherpa trucker jacket. Jordan Catalano from My So-Called Life had one, and I thought that I could wrap myself up in a cloak of his nonchalant cool if I got one, too. It was the early 90s - nonchalant cool still had a certain currency.