Only GW Compares

[ZuZu]

Only with a Good Wear are you going to find an original jacket that literally matches. Compare this detail:

Original

GW

Obsessively looking at Star photos I am finding more stuff like this. IMO only a GW repro gets this microscpic detail AND the correct pattern. I'll post more as they come up. The brass collar bushings, the placement of the clip and snap cover, the shape of the windflap etc. I wish I was smart enough to get the photos the same size...

 

[Pilot]

Agree, only John gets it right…
Here a few details on a GW Monarch A-2
Zipper box and double stitching on the zipper half wind flap side.
Monarch A-2 typical collar and its folding… Studs correctly positioned, collar tips as they should be.

 

[ZuZu]

Agree, only John gets it right…
Here a few details on a GW Monarch A-2
Zipper box and double stitching on the zipper half wind flap side.
Monarch A-2 typical collar and its folding… Studs correctly positioned, collar tips as they should be.
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Beautiful.

 

[ZuZu]

To compare with your Monarch and original zipper box photo:

 

[Pilot]

To all,
Please feel free to share your Monarch A-2 details.
Apparently a very popular jacket amongs the members here. Thanks!

 

[ZuZu]

To all,
Please feel free to share your Monarch A-2 details.
Apparently a very popular jacket amongs the members here. Thanks!

soryy- I don't have one. It's from John's CD.

 

[Pilot]

soryy- I don't have one. It's from John's CD.

Thats OK, but many members have one, also from other makers and originals… If they want to chime in?

 

[Wz1999]

Original 18091 and GW 18091

 

[mulceber]

Original 18091 and GW 18091
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Man Zhi, that 18091 repro is in a class all its own.

 

[MikeyB-17]

Years ago people said it wasn’t possible to do this, to reproduce a wartime A-2 with this kind of detail. If you pointed out a fault in a repro you were ‘nit picking’, and if you wanted it like an original, you should buy an original. And they got quite shirty about it too. Now look.

 

[B-Man2]

So .. I have Jans’ GW Monarch and I know if he had it with him he would have been chomping at the bit to show some photos of his jacket. And rightly so as it’s probably one of the sweetest Horween hides I’ve ever seen. So here’s Jan’s GW Monarch .

 

[mulceber]

Man, that really makes me miss the Monarch. Looks like she's doing great!

 

[B-Man2]

Man, that really makes me miss the Monarch. Looks like she's doing great!

Yeah it’s doing well .. not getting any sun time this week as I’m having the inside of the house painted and I’ve got it locked in my jacket room with strict instructions to the painters to stay out of that room at the risk of being turned into “Fred” food!

 

[Silver Surfer]

Funny how about paints magnetic properties when it is near original a-2s, m series, g series jackets, et Al.

 

[B-Man2]

Funny how about paints magnetic properties when it is near original a-2s, m series, g series jackets, et Al.

Yes ….. spot on … jackets locked in room inaccessible to painters ..

 

[caddyd]

All original and still solid Monarch AC-23378

 

[Nickb123]

Would you look at that wonky label!

 

[caddyd]

Well you might look a little wonky at eighty years old!

 

[Nickb123]

Well you might look a little wonky at eighty years old!

It was sewed on a bit slanted I mean! It’s superb!

 

[caddyd]

True enough but good comparison of original and repro labels here. When I acquired the ole Monarch the original lining was totally intact. But it started separating at the collar as usual after wearing it. So I've been patching it best I can to preserve the label and lining.