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What jacket(s) are you wearing at the moment?
- Thread starter Roughwear
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ZuZu
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Those didn't suffer from the large sleeve ends. Nice!
One-eyed Jack
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Steve, Sounds like an episode of Jeeves and Wooster in the countryside. A wooly version of the country squire, you are, in whose modest country estate of slate rooves (archaic English), piled stones, and several dozen rooms spread over three wings. Were you wearing a solidly somber woolen knit necktie, in your regiment's stripeage? Don't forget to say, 'it were', instead of 'it was'. Or is that too far north for you?
One-eyed Jack
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Nice rough-outs.Was nippy today. Here's what kept the chill at bay for Smithy...
ELC Irvin, MASH A-10s, silk scarf, and roughouts with innersoles.
Smithy
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One-eyed Jack
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Here's a cringe for you all. A friend, who wound up in the movie/wardrobe dodge, got an A-2 in 1977 or so. At that time, in Calif, I guarantee it was an original. No idea who the mfgr was. He either got it off a rack at a costume house, or bought it for less than $50. Probably much less. It was rather gently used.
To weather it instanty, he soaked it in cold water and hung it from a hanger in the shower to dry. To give it the look of more use, he put fishing weights in the pockets for a permanent bit of sag.
It turned out spectacularly. Such is an example of movie magic. I'm not prepared to go that far with my A-1, but I did steam and knead the pockets a wee bit.
To weather it instanty, he soaked it in cold water and hung it from a hanger in the shower to dry. To give it the look of more use, he put fishing weights in the pockets for a permanent bit of sag.
It turned out spectacularly. Such is an example of movie magic. I'm not prepared to go that far with my A-1, but I did steam and knead the pockets a wee bit.
One-eyed Jack
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You might want to pick up a brass-bristle shoe brush, the kind I used to take the kinks out of the furballs on the collar of my G-1. It's made to raise the nap on suede shoes. Don't brush with it. Hold it in place, and rotate it a bit, then lift and separate. Like Jerry Lee Lewis: Kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.
Rock on wit chore bad seff
YoungMedic
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Great looking kit! Do you have a link for the scarf?Was nippy today. Here's what kept the chill at bay for Smithy...
ELC Irvin, MASH A-10s, silk scarf, and roughouts with innersoles.
Smithy
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Here you go. These are the closest to WWII silk scarves used in the RAF. The heft of the silk is right (it's heavy like WWII silk) and they have the wool backing which most had back in the day. Not cheap but worth it...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soprano-Navy-White-Polka-Backing/dp/B00N9YX2XQ/ref=sr_1_11?crid=2ERQM1GBFOGR3&keywords=soprano+silk+scarfs&qid=1675383049&sprefix=Soprano+scarf,aps,495&sr=8-11
ZuZu
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If only you had a plane...Was nippy today. Here's what kept the chill at bay for Smithy...
ELC Irvin, MASH A-10s, silk scarf, and roughouts with innersoles.
Smithy
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If only you had a plane...
Yeah but I've got a car which isn't too bad.
One-eyed Jack
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It's a beauty, but shipping to the US these days is one right cock-up. Still waiting for a USAAF name strip that was mailed on 11 January.
YoungMedic
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Thank you!
JonnyCrow
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Cracking Smithy, I love the look of those old silk scarves
now where have you parked that matchless to go with the kit? haha
newagegeezer
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a few days ago I read a request for replacement zips source in this forum. I've recently been wearing this old jacket made up of scraps but the zip puller was lost when I bought it many decades ago, so just had a thought that someone may have a spare one (can't see anything on the web). A repro would be fine, just want to be able to zip it up without recourse to changing whole zip.....I do have a Talon cotton jacket and Conmar trouser zip (from a pair of pinks) to trade if useful to anyone. Thanks
Micawber
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Heaven's, up t'north? No, I am in East Anglia very local to the old seat of the Duke of Norfolk and later where Basil Brown lived. Who was Basil Brown you might ask - think Sutton Hoo excavations and all that.
Alternatively think of the area where the 8th Air Force operated from so not really that far up country.
flyincowboy
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I am in the same boat for a replacement zipper just tried the Headwind mfg site an it seems that all zipper are sold out. Will try Mash... Are there any other places were period correct zipper are avaliable?
