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

[newagegeezer]

Baby, it's cold outside.... so for a change an odd sheepkin jacket I came across many years ago. Looks like it was made from scraps of old Irvin but very professionally made with leather over seams like an Irvin, B3 type cuffs, collar strap much like a B3 but just a single strap, has 2 cargo type patch pockets and a DOT zip but missing slider. An odd thing but i rather like that.

 

[MikeyB-17]

Looks more like AAF sheepskin-wouldn’t be surprised if it was made from old flying trousers. Cool.

 

[newagegeezer]

yes indeed, Mikey, I meant to write that it didn't look like Irvin material , didn't read back what i had written, old age...... It does look and feel exactly like the hide of a pair of AAF trousers I have. Possibly someone had had it made to be used as a mbike jacket, which I would have done if it had zipped up, having others I never bothered to find a slider for it.

 

[MikeyB-17]

Looking more closely, I think the pockets have come off a pair of A-3 trousers. I wonder if it originally had a zip from the trousers too, and the Irvin zip is a replacement.

 

[Tattoo A2]

The Frankenstein special, cool,lol.

 

[mulceber]

Well, the temperature outside on my walk to work this morning was 6 F (-14 C), so it was time for the B-3 to do what it does best. It might have been late spring for all that I could feel the cold.

 

[bseal]

Well, the temperature outside on my walk to work this morning was 6 F (-14 C), so it was time for the B-3 to do what it does best. It might have been late spring for all that I could feel the cold.
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Earmuffs is cheating. Nice coat.

 

[bseal]

Earmuffs is cheating. Nice coat.

To avoid obfuscation, I was implying to simply lift up that sheepskin collar. She’s there to help, just let her.

 

[mulceber]

I've done that in the past with mixed success; I find that Eastman's shearling is stiff enough that buckling up the collar is very difficult, and without the buckles done up, the collar mostly manages to funnel the wind toward my ears. But yes, when done up properly, the collar in fact makes the jacket even warmer.

 

[newagegeezer]

being cold today, just got in from wearing another almost Frankenstein one, well, it's an original B3 I've owned for 40+ years but now very patched and sewn up (so looking Frankensteinish) from years of hard use, most put on before I acquired it. No maker on label only DWG no. 33 H 5595 A.C. order no. W535-AC 17812. Strange old

zip, non orig I'm sure , has 100 in a circle stamped on it ??

 

[Lord Flashheart]

I picked up a nearly new ELC B-15 following a hint here from @Brettafett. Shown here in a suitable country garment combination for round these parts of East Anglia.

@Micawber approved expression and shades.

 

[newagegeezer]

a balmy 14C today, felt like mid/late Spring, so went for walk on England's green and pleasant land i.e. Epping Forest,just 200 yards from my house. Didn't know that when I left, expected colder but as bright and sunny wore an old jacket that I used to wear on motorbike in Summer, think I picked it up from a flea market in Frankfurt when I worked there back in the '80s. It was actually too hot in it

 

[Micawber]

I picked up a nearly new ELC B-15 following a hint here from @Brettafett. Shown here in a suitable country garment combination for round these parts of East Anglia.

@Micawber approved expression and shades.
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Duly approved. Breeks are a bit Mr Fancypants......

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Duly approved. Breeks are a bit Mr Fancypants......

... To say nothing of the bow tie.
"All the gear, No idea"

 

[Micawber]

... To say nothing of the bow tie.
"All the gear, No idea"

Indeed. My apologies, I missed the bowtie, is it wind up or 'lectric?

 

[Tattoo A2]

being cold today, just got in from wearing another almost Frankenstein one, well, it's an original B3 I've owned for 40+ years but now very patched and sewn up (so looking Frankensteinish) from years of hard use, most put on before I acquired it. No maker on label only DWG no. 33 H 5595 A.C. order no. W535-AC 17812. Strange old View attachment 73709zip, non orig I'm sure , has 100 in a circle stamped on it ??

Now theres a jacket with personality, the tales it could tell, not a Frankenstein if I say so myself, love those beat up originals.

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Indeed. My apologies, I missed the bowtie, is it wind up or 'lectric?

I'll 'fess up. I couldn't be bothered to tie one for our little walked up morning at the fen so it's pre-tied with grouse on. I'll see myself to the door ....

 

[busdrivermike]

It was a balmy plus 6c Friday so I was in my blanket lined stormrider
As I was out and about, being it was a beautiful Friday I got some timbits
With my coffee
Temps are dropping this weekend so I’ll be back in leather

 

[Micawber]

I'll 'fess up. I couldn't be bothered to tie one for our little walked up morning at the fen so it's pre-tied with grouse on. I'll see myself to the door ....

Well, it is passable, from a distance ...barely noticeable in fact. I trust you had a passable walked up, at least the weather today was passable, especially the wind!

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Well, it is passable, from a distance ...barely noticeable in fact. I trust you had a passable walked up, at least the weather today was passable, especially the wind!

Yes indeed it was. Distinctly overdressed tbh (and I wouldn't dare take the B-15 through the scrub and overgrowth down there so a waxed waistcoat came out) but breeks are a lot more practical with boots than people give them credit for. Even with silly socks.