ZuZu
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Beautiful G&F? Too bad they can't get them for nowadays movies...
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Best photos of famous people wearing true vintage leather jackets (military, but not only)
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Shanghai-Mayne
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Silver Surfer
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epps pop up because the body front, back or both shrank,, and because the epps are double layered, they do not shrink in proportion to the rest of the hides.90% sure it's a Spiewak. Always with the raised epaulets. When I moved to SF in 1978 I was able to get 2 Spiewaks with thick goatskin. I spent hours wetting the eps and trying to get them to flatten out...
ZuZu
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Spiewak eps pop up because they are 1/4" or so longer than the shoulder seam they cover. All spiewaks I've seen have this characteristic. I'm pretty sure they were sewn this way for some odd reason. On other contracts the eps pop up for the same reason or because of the shrinkage you mention or whatever. Rough Wears and Aeros often have eps that pop up but it isn't inevitable- some stick to the shoulder seam.
Enigma1938
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Sorry couldn't resist
He's pretty famous, at least among us jacket nerds
He's pretty famous, at least among us jacket nerds
Shanghai-Mayne
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Shanghai-Mayne
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Pa12
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He’s not doing well last I heard about a week ago
B-Man2
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He’s gone …. He died last week .
Pa12
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Shitty
Shanghai-Mayne
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I found it yesterday, that he passed away.
Silver Surfer
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seems he had a bit of a troubled life, some of which may have sped up his demise.
Shanghai-Mayne
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He didn’t wear jacket in the movie.
Grant
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Who's the long haired freak in the Spiewak! That jacket brings back fond memories talking to the original owner and hearing how he survived 40 combat missions wearing it.
mulceber
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That reminds me: my United Sheeplined does it as well. Given that USL, Bronco and Spiewak were all owned by one family, that seems significant.
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Grant
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That's cool! Where did you read they were all owned by the same family?
Someone told me Bronco and HLB (both in NYC) were the same family.
Also the family that owned Aero had a squabble and some split and crossed the Hudson starting their own company - Werber Sportswear.
B-Man2
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United Sheeplined, Bronco, and I. Spiewak & Sons, What do they all have in common?
If you said that they were “kissing cousins” or related by blood, you wouldn’t be wrong. For those of you who may be hearing this for the first time, all three of those manufacturers of WWII A2 jackets , and many other types of WWI and WWII military jackets as well, were started and owned by...
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Researching I. Spiewak & Sons, Inc
Isaac Spiewak immigrated from Warsaw, Poland, with his wife and then five children in 1903. The family grew to eight children with sons Henry E (1894-1976), Philip (1896-1991), Murray E (1906-1985), Harry I, Peter, Sam R, and daughters Esther (1899-1968) and Rose. Isaac had noticed that the...
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