flyincowboy
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Metric system is so simple....
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entertainment
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It always cracks me up AND annoys me when I try to use the size finder on the ELC website and have to figure out my weight in stone and pounds.Gotta love Britain: cheating on the metric system with the imperial system, and cheating on the imperial system with...the caveman system?
Then to add insult to injury, it also always tells me that I need a custom size.
(Metric system is undoubtedly better.)
D97x7
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It's a 46 according to the tag.
Flying Doctor
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My lovely old MKVI
flyincowboy
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The egyptians are known to have used the metric system to build the pyramids it's a sign of longivity and accuracy aint it? When i work of my truck which is american made i do use non metric tools. While traveling to UK i bought a tape meter which read both metric /imperial system A proper dimension is always the same it's just the numbers who changes!!! lol
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Lord Flashheart
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Agreed. That is a really nice Irvin Jan and that's just the weather for it.
ausreenactor
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Don't get me wrong. I still measure in 'Freedom'.
ausreenactor
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flyincowboy
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Got a bunch of them to me it's either the 3/8 1/2 which are lost
ties70
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I wanted to bring the FS B-3, as I re-dyed parts of the sleeves yesterday (turned it from solid and light reddish color to a darker and more "redskin" like tone), but it was to warm..
Grabbed this instead:
And it suddenly crossed my mind:
Most of us would probably not consider it a "vintage jacket".
But it was made in 84, so it's almost 40 years old!
And then the associative circuits went on:
At 52 I would not see myself as " an old man". But just like the jacket is "vintage", the truth is obvious...
From 2022 fifty two years back makes it 1970... another 52 years and you are back at 1918!!!
I think I am a pretty lucky guy, there have been worse decades to grow up and get old..
Well..., ah...never mind....
Ties
Grabbed this instead:
And it suddenly crossed my mind:
Most of us would probably not consider it a "vintage jacket".
But it was made in 84, so it's almost 40 years old!
And then the associative circuits went on:
At 52 I would not see myself as " an old man". But just like the jacket is "vintage", the truth is obvious...
From 2022 fifty two years back makes it 1970... another 52 years and you are back at 1918!!!
I think I am a pretty lucky guy, there have been worse decades to grow up and get old..
Well..., ah...never mind....
Ties
Brettafett
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AVI LTHR A-2 with 9AAF shoulder patch
Part 1 of a project for this jacket.
The people I had sew the patch are idiots however, didn't listen to a thing I said, even with photos, tape and guides... They still placed it incorrectly. This is exactly where an AVI comes into its own.
I can live with this, but if this had been done to one of my BKs, Platon Dubow or ELC... Id have gone bananas
Part 1 of a project for this jacket.
The people I had sew the patch are idiots however, didn't listen to a thing I said, even with photos, tape and guides... They still placed it incorrectly. This is exactly where an AVI comes into its own.
I can live with this, but if this had been done to one of my BKs, Platon Dubow or ELC... Id have gone bananas
Peter242
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Patch is really very high on the shoulder - but the jacket looks great. Very dark on those pictures....AVI LTHR A-2 with 9AAF shoulder patch
Part 1 of a project for this jacket.
The people I had sew the patch are idiots however, didn't listen to a thing I said, even with photos, tape and guides... They still placed it incorrectly. This is exactly where an AVI comes into its own.
I can live with this, but if this had been done to one of my BKs, Platon Dubow or ELC... Id have gone bananas
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leper-colony
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Brettafett
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Pics are a bit dark... Jacket is not as dark in person.
Patch is higher than I'd like, but its fine. I have tons of WWII pics with shoulder patches that are set high.
(I guess there were many Privates who liked peeling potatoes)
Patch is higher than I'd like, but its fine. I have tons of WWII pics with shoulder patches that are set high.
(I guess there were many Privates who liked peeling potatoes)
Smithy
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Fucking freezing here (pardon my French), -9 Celsius but with a full storm, so blowing a gale literally. Minus Godknowswhat with windchill and I'm unashamed to say that I piked out ditched all the vintage stuff for a Canada Goose. Nearly got bloody frostbite last night out on night patrol. Full fleece face balaclava as well.
entertainment
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ELC A-1 that I bought from Nick
