What jacket(s) are you wearing at the moment?

[CombatWombat]

That "Broad Arrow" mark has been the British marking on all official HMG-issued property for centuries.
Convicts' pajamas/prison garb, issued by HMG in Oz, were covered with stamps of the arrows.
I've most often seen W /|\ D, for War Department.
Without extensive research, it appears that BG is code that denotes the country or theater where it was made, or the bureau of origin.

All ADF clothing and equipment still have the good old "Crow's Foot" marking it as government property to this Day
And half the bricks in both Sydney and Hobart have the marking as well since the convict brickworks supplied ALOT of bricks for the first 20-40 years

 

[Micawber]

GW RW 27752 recently acquired from a fellow, and very, very kind VLJ member to whom I am very, very grateful. This one is a keeper.

Thank you Sir, you are a gentleman.

 

[Erwin]

Adama36, it is a fantastic piece [also as it has a family provenience], congratulations!!!

 

[Chandler]

At the moment I am sitting in my driveway, participating in our neighborhood garage sale.

It's cloudy and 61° F -- in June, and I swear there's a windchill. I'm wearing my ATF fleece tanker over a hoodie -- summertime.

I'm about to put on the Avirex B-3 I have for sale!

 

[ZuZu]

GW RW 27752 recently acquired from a fellow, and very, very kind VLJ member to whom I am very, very grateful. This one is a keeper.

Thank you Sir, you are a gentleman.

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Wow. Perfection. There are secrets in these GWs. Stuff no one else gets.

 

[MauldinFan]

Today, I was wearing my unknown maker (it never had a tag) A-2 at a local airshow with my living history group.

 

[Smithy]

No jackets here as it's 25 degrees Celsius.

Funny how you get declimatised. I'm bloody baking right now yet back in Melbourne if was 25 over summer, I would've been thinking, "Ooh here comes the cool change"!

Nice jackets everyone BTW.

 

[John Luder]

Ahoy, Maties; a question that's nautical but nice.
I removed the St. Christopher medal from my One-eyed Jack A-2 and replaced it with St. Michael, the patron saint of flyers.
QUERY: For you creative types, I'm looking for ideas to attach the St. Chris to my submariner's 6552.
I can't find a decent looking St. Brendan-the-Navigator medal for my submariner, so I'll use St. Chris in the meantime.
For balance, as with the St. Michael on the right collar, I want to have the St. Chris in a position that's relatively close to the photo.
I don't want to hang it from the leather zipper strap. For one thing, the strap could get snagged while zipped or partially zipped.
I'm not averse to punching holes, stitching something on, etc.
By way of editing a previous, I should have properly identified the fictitious submarine as the USS Lanternfish, not the US. Too late to edit the original and I feel frightfully dreadful, not to mention cheap and dirty, but I'll save that part for Confession on Friday evening.
Another BTW, I used isopropyl to further distress the collar stencil and make it look less like it was machine lettered by Five Star.
Have at it, Chaps.
Mahalo, as they say in the Sandwich Isles.

 

[Nickb123]

Knackered old Werber 7823 (similar but in far worse condition than the one in the recent auction talk)

 

[A2 B3au]

It’s a good jacket day, so time to air out an Original M-422A.View attachment 111549View attachment 111551View attachment 111553

Fantastic colour

 

[A2 B3au]

The eternal conundrum when collecting originals.

Not a jacket, but I thought I’d show off this ridiculous impulse buy I made during a weekend trip to NYC:
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Suits u.. looks cool

 

[ties70]

Too warm and humid for jackets in Hamburg…I feel kind of militarily camouflaged, nonetheless!

 

[JonnyCrow]

My wife wants to move to Long Island, where her family is/are. Over my dead body. Hot, muggy summers, back-breaking, snow-shoveling freezing winters. Cal sux, but better the devil you know. But it was a killer today in Camarillo. It was 73 degrees and about 73% humidity. I thought I'd freakin die. I was looking forward to wearing my 6552, or at least my A-2. Good God, I had to strip down to khaki trousers and a short-sleeved shirt. Man, it's a friggin' bitch to live in this weather. And so near the coast, too. What did I do to deserve this sort of punishment?

Welcome to my world haha this morning 5am 22c this week max temps 38c no jackets I just have a permanent Gilligans Island outfit haha

 

[JonnyCrow]

Too warm and humid for jackets in Hamburg…I feel kind of militarily camouflaged, nonetheless!

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Me also in Madrid, dug out my vintage rayon hawaiian bag of shirts, looking good, love floral shirts

 

[JonnyCrow]

Too warm and humid for jackets in Hamburg…I feel kind of militarily camouflaged, nonetheless!

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Next stop Pearl

 

[Smithy]

Too warm and humid for jackets in Hamburg…I feel kind of militarily camouflaged, nonetheless!

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Love the shirt Ties!

 

[M. from Berlin]

Buzz Rickson USN FLIGHT JACKET, AVIATOR, SUMMER AN-J-2 /AN 6551/ J-7758A

 

[John Luder]

Outstanding WZ !

Next stop Pearl

The locals will love seeing a haole like you wearing a skirt. But lose the hose and get some colo(u)r on them there pegs.

 

[mulceber]

Cool(-ish) day today, so I’m off in the patched up FS A-1 (patch by @ties70):

 

[Sideslip]

Cool(-ish) day today, so I’m off in the patched up FS A-1 (patch by @ties70):
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The jacket is lovely but definitely enhanced by the patch!