Recent content by SydneyCollectorGuy

I'm the same with post WW2 stuff.....got waaaaay too much Belgian and French 50's gear

So I've just come across a avirex G1 (with a A2 style stud down leather collar) and since I've NEVER seen a stud down G1 collar before I decided to come to the fount of knowledge known as the WLJ community I know avirex is a fairly crap company in regards to quality and "properness" but I'm...

That there was......but The Brass were the "gentlemen of means" who dictated the grooming standards The Americans didn't have the same aristocratic underpinnings that European forces had at the time (since they didn't have class and feudal systems that still stayed strong in Europe until the end...

I've fired a M1 garand and M1 carbine.... I'll stick with my Lithgow SMLE and Inglis Canada No4 thanks

My name pretty much sums up where I live...... But I was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland

Careful there Comrade.....DICKtater Dan might call his goons on you

I have a third hand (or so the seller claimed) Real McCoy (NZ) A2 with the droopy shoulders and I'm a fan since it gives me a little more room to move/reach up without dragging the torso length up to my chin

Well considering that Aero is a reproduction in itself.......to me it's just a company reproducing another company that reproduced a company from the 30's-40's so I don't exactly have any issues against it. Capitalism in progress.......you price yourself out of the average wage earner's ability...

And that isn't a actual wartime issued smock The snaps aren't Newey,the label isn't accurate.......the dye intensity is waaaay too strong...... I work for the Australian War Memorial mate so have actually handled these things for a living...... and have handled ones by a British company (Kay...

Well it's not a actual British wartime one.....the dye intensity is waaaay too strong to be a legitimate piece (since it was meant to wash out and look like a French workman's smock) You may have a post war one (which I doubt with that half zip) but I'm thinking it's a Belgian brushstroke smock...

That's a lovely example of the Belgian "brushstroke" para smock mate

It's because the German and English air forces were crewed by "Gentlemen of means"....... American flyers were usually crop dusters and such ...... it's more about the culture and society behind the air force

I'm a bit of a big boy.......I am a 40R in RM Williams jeans and a 38/32 in "normal" Levi's.... probably because their sizing is rather lax And although I like this style of denim I usually wear my A2 jackets and my ancient French horsehide jacket I tend to pair them with wool trousers in a...

I went to maple store first..... and to a Japanese store near the Capitol theatre.....both places had jeans that were so tapered that I couldn't fit my calves into (because I assume they do their patterns on Asian body sizing rather than Nordic guys that cycle and swim too much lol)

This jacket was made in either Campsie or Padstow NSW Australia (the company moved factories)........my father used to work for a motorcycle leather shop and this company made motorcycle leathers as well as "chore jackets" apparently It's a traditional design that's been around way before Aero...