Recent content by jeroen

Hi, The only ones I've seen actually had their fur trim removed. Its very hard to notice that this has been done as the stitching for the fur is straight on top of the structural stitching of the hood, leaving hardly any evidence when removed.

Apparently incidents like this where more common than you'd think. The b-24's tended to be heavier than the b-17's and flew a little lower as a result. When bombing with formations of plane's of both makings it was therefore crucial to be over target in sequence, something you can imagine was at...

mmmh, not sure about the patch. Its covering up a bunch of old stitchmarks.....not the best of signs.

Its funny how so many varieties of the b15 where made after the war. Some of them are actually quite good. So good even that one found its way into Maguire and Conways book, posing as and 'early' variety of the b15. Seing this jacket its a real shame the airforce didnt realise the possibilities...

Hi Jeff, As a Dutchman I can easyly answer why people in europe take an interest in ww2 AAF jackets and stuff. Those where the guys who risked everything to liberate us from Adolf and his gang and as such they have always stayed in our collective hearts and minds. My mom can still vividly...

brrrr... back to the eighties... the time of huge shoulder pads in anything and everything oversized about half a mile, and all women having scary sized big hairdo's and ridiculous amounts of make-up making them all look like Estonian harbour prostitutes. Oh yeah and then there was that thing...

I stand corrected. I was under the mistaken impression that this was a fake argument about something unfathomably unimportant, just for the fun of it, but apparently there is some real lessons to be learned here.

Absolutely! You should have seen me in the 80's. Sporting my red white and blue 'boatshoe's'. I had to beat the lassie's off me with a shitty stick!

Ha ha, being a foreigner it finally dawned to me what 'Sperry Topsiders ' are. I didnt know the word and spent the past couple of days worrying I might be wearing some garment that is advertising my lack of 'manlyness' to the whole world... Like everyone I used to wear them in the eighties and...

Everyone with an old g1 or other flight jacket with a mouton collar knows this problem: you can easyly treat the flat surface of a jacket but you cant treat the furry collar... Last night, however, I've been a real clever bunny if I may say so myself. The collar on my 7823 contract was stif...

Cheers for the tip. I ordered immedialtely. jeroen

Yeah, thats what I thought. It'll make a nice every day wearer for those occasions where an original jacket might get damaged or wet (in case of leathers that is).

sorry, just found out this one has already been discused in another topic.

Hi everyone. I'm not much into repro jackets but still bought myself an L2 on the bay yesterday. Its a repro (I figured a real L2 is not going to happen anytime soon and even if one comes round I wont be very relaxed wearing it). Its by a company called Pherrow's Sportswear. I did a quick...

Your remark about having that patch sewn to the jacket reminds me of a little episode I had with my tailor when i first met him and had him put a couple of patches on a g1. A pretty straight forward job I thought but I forgot to exactly tell him how to do it so he ended up carefully undoing the...