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

[Pa12]

It's my fav jacket of all time.
Could really just sell everything else now.

I have one in horween seal. Love it. Mind you I love all my gw’s. It feels like a more modern fit.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Wearing B-10 now, but tomorrow gonna need an Aloha shirt

 

[coolhandluke]

BK Star with Bronson C-2 underneath...

 

[Brettafett]

Thats a great fit, you should be smiling dude!

 

[Griffon_301]

cold and wet today here so Star G-1 for the doggie walk and now an ELC B-15a for the groceries and shopping trip with the missus...back into light zone jackets tomorrow again if the forecast holds....

 

[D97x7]

.50cal

 

[Tattoo A2]

How did you acquire this one, new or resale? Almost pulled the trigger on a use DD 3 years ago...

Dany, I got this one off Ebay years ago, I bought some AAF items off her and she asked me if I would be interested in 2 DD jackets she had her husband didnt want anymore, think I got it for 3 or 4 hundred bucks at the time, should have grabbed the other one at the time, but didnt.

 

[Jeronimo Watchmaker]

BK Star with Bronson C-2 underneath...

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Beautiful jacket.

 

[CombatWombat]

It's been a month if humid hot weather here, so I put my Buco D Pocket repro on before it decided to heat up for the day.
Lovely and thick hide but a soft enough drape that it doesn't feel like I'm in a vice.....more like an aggressive bear hug

 

[bseal]

WWII pea coat.

 

[B-Man2]

WWII pea coat.

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Is it you !!
Is it really you bseal ?
I was beginning to think that you were a figment of my imagination

 

[bseal]

Is it you !!
Is it really you bseal ?
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ChatGPT.

When you input “VLJ member,” it consistently offers images of middle aged, nerdy, white males.

Tried to find someone who could be a close enough match to Fin’s dad.

 

[John Luder]

Robert Montgomery, They Were Expendable (1945). PT boat officers, as well as sub officers, were issued, or allowed to brown wear civilian versions of, A-2s.
Since this was filmed when it was set, it's not a costumer error. Additional nice touch is his pre-war, left-facing crow. Embroidered, not two-tone metal.
Who has some thoughts about this jacket?
Cheers,
Jack

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

At Crash Drive(1943), when Tyrone Power was playing a PT boat capt. He was wearing a hooded waist high deck jacket.

Silver color US NAVY on the back, and the hood covered some charts.

On second and third pic you may see the hood as well.

 

[John Luder]

At Crash Drive(1943), when Tyrone Power was playing a PT boat capt. He was wearing a hooded waist high deck jacket.

Silver color US NAVY on the back, and the hood covered some charts.



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On second and third pic you may see the hood as well.

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I love this movie, real color.
Fast forward. While in the boat (sub, that is) he's wearing an A-2 or civilian version. There are a few scenes in which the officers are wearing brown leather jackets. The inimitable, hard working contract player, Harry Morgan is seen in one.
I can't find the section in the regs, but all of these contemporary WW2 films were outfitted by the respective branches. There were no wardrobe department mistakes.
There's a civilian A2 in Destination Tokyo, and maybe an "issue" A-2.
John
We've analyzed John Wayne's cotton 37-J1, and Montgomery's A-2 style is leather.

 

[Spitfireace]

BK Star with Bronson C-2 underneath...

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Work in that Kelso dude! Wear da crap out of it!

 

[Spitfireace]

Harry Morgan, the only man to play a crazy racist Colonel, and Colonel Harry Potter all on the same MASH 4077th.

 

[John Luder]

Harry Morgan, the only man to play a crazy racist Colonel, and Colonel Harry Potter all on the same MASH 4077th.

You're so close. It was Col. Sherman Potter. I don't think Harry Potter got higher than Leftenant Colonel.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

I love this movie, real color.
Fast forward. While in the boat (sub, that is) he's wearing an A-2 or civilian version. There are a few scenes in which the officers are wearing brown leather jackets. The inimitable, hard working contract player, Harry Morgan is seen in one.
I can't find the section in the regs, but all of these contemporary WW2 films were outfitted by the respective branches. There were no wardrobe department mistakes.
There's a civilian A2 in Destination Tokyo, and maybe an "issue" A-2.
John
We've analyzed John Wayne's cotton 37-J1, and Montgomery's A-2 style is leather.

John , I remember they wearing leather jacket before they lunched a raid against German secret base. But don’t know it is called A2 many years ago.

It looks like one piece back panel, maybe a real deal?

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Destination Tokyo , It looks like one piece back panel as well, but I can seen the dot button was not covered by leather.

 

[Chandler]

PT boat officers, as well as sub officers, were issued, or allowed to brown wear civilian versions of, A-2s.

Pretty sure this was only a Hollywood regulation.

There's an auction house that often puts up jackets from these old movies -- recently sold John Wayne's Flying Tigers gear. They plainly showed the costumer tag in the "A-2."

Hollywood definitely knew the cool aspect of the look of the A-2 -- no matter the branch of service.

Also note the 2-piece back on Montgomery's jacket -- not an issue FJ.