Enigma1938
Well-Known Member
I'm all alone at home this Sunday morning so I thought I could da a little review about some jackets.
This here is a few years old reproduction of a german Luftwaffe summer flight jacket made by SM Wholesale in the USA. There were a few different variants of official issued summer flight jackets in the Luftwaffe, they differ in things like collar or waist area but the overall cut remained the same.
I always liked this jacket for its look, lightweight and it's history. There are plenty of makers out there which are making reproductions of this jacket but unfortunately most of them look like crap - wrong cuts, shitty material and details, some look to be complete fantasy.
In my opinion SM Wholesale is the only company that provides a faithful replica of this type of jackets. It was a little uneasy to deal with them but in the end they did a great job.
All the Details in this Repro are matching to originals. The shell is made of fine cotton twill and the liner is made of a sateen material (germans used sateen frequently for uniform liners in ww2). There's a map pocket on the outside of the left breast and a leather tab near the zipper to attach oxygen hoses. There are inner sleeves with elastic cuffs to prevent wind and cold from getting in. The cuffs and collar are equipped with yhe typical greyblue glass buttons.
The cut of this jackets is relaxed / roomy because they were meant to be worn over the Uniform / Fliegerbluse so that makes them pretty comfortable to wear.
I let SM wholesale attach an pre-denazified LW Eagle with the typical zig zag seam.
For the sake of Authenticity I changed the Zipper puller / slider to an original wartime Rapid one.
This here is a few years old reproduction of a german Luftwaffe summer flight jacket made by SM Wholesale in the USA. There were a few different variants of official issued summer flight jackets in the Luftwaffe, they differ in things like collar or waist area but the overall cut remained the same.
I always liked this jacket for its look, lightweight and it's history. There are plenty of makers out there which are making reproductions of this jacket but unfortunately most of them look like crap - wrong cuts, shitty material and details, some look to be complete fantasy.
In my opinion SM Wholesale is the only company that provides a faithful replica of this type of jackets. It was a little uneasy to deal with them but in the end they did a great job.
All the Details in this Repro are matching to originals. The shell is made of fine cotton twill and the liner is made of a sateen material (germans used sateen frequently for uniform liners in ww2). There's a map pocket on the outside of the left breast and a leather tab near the zipper to attach oxygen hoses. There are inner sleeves with elastic cuffs to prevent wind and cold from getting in. The cuffs and collar are equipped with yhe typical greyblue glass buttons.
The cut of this jackets is relaxed / roomy because they were meant to be worn over the Uniform / Fliegerbluse so that makes them pretty comfortable to wear.
I let SM wholesale attach an pre-denazified LW Eagle with the typical zig zag seam.
For the sake of Authenticity I changed the Zipper puller / slider to an original wartime Rapid one.
