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Doursoux Hartmann
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Bombing IP
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There cycling jacket looks really nice and is at an affordable price !. Needs the interlocking buckle to finish it off .Their other jackets look great Italian quality leather and construction .
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Bobo_the_Sailor
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I like that they eschewed the shiny Luftwaffe marketing and gave the jacket it's humble original name!
Kermit3D
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Some of the original jackets didn't have the buckle, even though it looks nicer when it's there. Too bad for Riri zippers...
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Kermit3D
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I completely agree.
Rory Schultz
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The Marseille jacket is actually a Hilbert Double Breasted 4 flap pocket with belted sleeve. I have 2 variants of that Hilbert. There is a Dutch made one just like the Marseille by Gelmok but it does not have the belted sleeve. I have that one too.
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Rory Schultz
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I have some just like these without the flapped pocket. They use the Ritsch zipper. Some have with the overlapping waist belt, some have none.
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Rory Schultz
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New from Connection Knitwear : a cyclist jacket.
Not conform to the production of the 1930's and 1940's, but for those who are not necessarily looking for a historically correct jacket, it might be interesting.
French Cycling Jacket • Connection Knitwear & Clothing
The FRENCH CYCLING JACKET. A leisure style very popular in France during the 1930s, later adopted by Luftwaffe pilots seeking for a smart and practical jacket to wear in the narrow fighter airplanes' pits of the period, and generally by anyone who could afford one ('maquisards' included). Our...www.connectionknitwear.com
More details can be seen on the facebook page :
I have several of these style but were German made jackets.
Rory Schultz
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My waist buckles finally arrived from France. An associate said he found them at a flea market and so I laid them out, this is showing how they will look on my jackets when I get them sewn on. On one French made period jacket I only need to switch it out with the better looking buckle. These other jackets are vintage WW2 period German private purchase jackets. I thought they would look cool with the waist buckles. I spent a long time restoring the leather of these jackets. I discovered that even if you add all the leather cleaners and feed the leather it still takes time to really let it cure the leather and the STITCHING. I made the mistake on one of my valuable DB 4 pocket ones by not letting it cure and feed it over time. Once I put it on the stitches broke at the shoulder and neck areas. So i learned that you must let the additives really take time to strengthen the stitching and not be too brittle. So I worked on these 2 jackets for a year, once a week feeding the leather and stitching.
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