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FiveStar Leather Latest Updates 2021
- Thread starter Shawn Ali
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leper-colony
Well-Known Member
Ah here is the old thread, it was hard to find: https://www.vintageleatherjackets.o...2-werber-leather-coat-co-contract-1729.26651/
Just this:
Just this:
leper-colony
Well-Known Member
Enigma1938
Well-Known Member
Sweet lord a size 51
I think there was just a handful of guys in that size out there in that period.
Shanghai-Mayne
Well-Known Member
Too (big)tall to fly.
mulceber
Moderator
My pet hypothesis is that the early A-2s trended larger, since at the time the Air Corps was made up mostly of career officers in their 30s, rather than teenagers. Most of the surviving SAT jackets are size 46 and above, just like this Werber.Sweet lord a size 51
I think there was just a handful of guys in that size out there in that period.
leper-colony
Well-Known Member
Reading through the original thread again, I wonder if it was a decision that it was close enough to make a 1729 or it was confirmed as one?
mulceber
Moderator
I don’t think there’s any way to totally confirm that it’s a 1729 without the label, since Werber had a couple of other contracts from the same time that have never been seen “in the wild” (we know about them only because the contract data survives) and may have been more or less identical to the 1729. I suspect Shawn just said “meh, good enough for me.” Which, tbh, is what I’d do in his shoes as well.
mulceber
Moderator
IMHO, see if you can buy some of the correct caramel colored knits and send them to Shawn. That’s the detail that stands out to me as off.
