Persimmon
Well-Known Member
With the end of WW2 fast approaching 70 years it did make me think about how more recent generations see, view and understand the conflict and especially with regard to this forum the types, collecting and wearing of Flight Jackets.
I guess the vast majority of us are no longer "spring chickens" and as such, who is going to follow us in terms of collecting both originals and Repro's.
Age can have some bonus factors ( certainly I am slightly richer now at 55 than I was in my 20-30's) and thus perhaps I /we can afford the (ongoing) high jacket purchase costs.
Many of us have Jacket sickness.
Will the next bunch have as well I wonder ?
How does that leave repro manufacturers in the years to come ?
Will original jackets hold the same level of interest to the next generation that it does for us ?
How will the jackets hold up condition wise more years down the line ?
From pictures of jacket wearing on the Forum to meeting up at Duxford etc most of the folks I have met are of a roughly similar age to myself.
Of course there are exceptions - Paul (Marv) I know you are younger !!
What happens when we stop wearing and collecting ?
Is there a new generation coming along to replace us ?
How do we get the next ( younger generation ) to buy in to this interest.
Can they afford to ? As jacket prices go ever higher as we strive for more accuracy.
As a stamp collector from a boy I often wonder now if that hobby is now all but dying out what with all the "more interestiing" things (computer games, phones, etc etc) that kids now have to occupy them.
Things/interests come and go ...
Anyway just a few thoughts on a gloomy weather day.
I guess the vast majority of us are no longer "spring chickens" and as such, who is going to follow us in terms of collecting both originals and Repro's.
Age can have some bonus factors ( certainly I am slightly richer now at 55 than I was in my 20-30's) and thus perhaps I /we can afford the (ongoing) high jacket purchase costs.
Many of us have Jacket sickness.
Will the next bunch have as well I wonder ?
How does that leave repro manufacturers in the years to come ?
Will original jackets hold the same level of interest to the next generation that it does for us ?
How will the jackets hold up condition wise more years down the line ?
From pictures of jacket wearing on the Forum to meeting up at Duxford etc most of the folks I have met are of a roughly similar age to myself.
Of course there are exceptions - Paul (Marv) I know you are younger !!
What happens when we stop wearing and collecting ?
Is there a new generation coming along to replace us ?
How do we get the next ( younger generation ) to buy in to this interest.
Can they afford to ? As jacket prices go ever higher as we strive for more accuracy.
As a stamp collector from a boy I often wonder now if that hobby is now all but dying out what with all the "more interestiing" things (computer games, phones, etc etc) that kids now have to occupy them.
Things/interests come and go ...
Anyway just a few thoughts on a gloomy weather day.