Prince Hal's jacket, The Hollow Crown

[John Lever]

I really like this jacket,it looks very like a goatskin A-1, albeit one from the 14 hundreds. I wonder who made the jackets for the BBC 1 series ?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... eview.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00t3mrr

 

[Dr H]

I did a double take yesterday too John.
Would work best, like the A-1, if you're rake like...

 

[John Lever]

I did a double take yesterday too John.
Would work best, like the A-1, if you're rake like...

I have discovered it was designed by Thea Sharrock. I wonder if Cirrus or Wested made the leather gear ?

 

[Ian C]

It's more accurate as a 20th century flying jacket than a jacket from the 15th century

 

[John Lever]

It's more accurate as a 20th century flying jacket than a jacket from the 15th century

Probably, but cool non the less and I suspect that they were more sophisticated than most people think.

 

[Ian C]

It's more accurate as a 20th century flying jacket than a jacket from the 15th century

Probably, but cool non the less and I suspect that they were more sophisticated than most people think.

Without a doubt, but most clothing was wool lined with linen, or just plain linen. Period dramas have an obsession with sticking them in leather but it wasn't really the done thing.

You only have to work on the bows they used back then to realise they weren't idiots