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[ausreenactor]

How about this Buzz Rickson release?

 

[Silver Surfer]

referee

 

[ausreenactor]

Day at the races perhaps?

 

[stanier]

you have to give it to the sheepskin salesman that had to unload 10,000 sf of accidentally dyed blaze orange hide.

 

[Smithy]

Day at the races perhaps?

That's what immediately came to my mind, looks like a jockey's outfit.

 

[Otter]

Is it a "Judas Goat" jacket for other jackets to form up on ?

Seriously, what is their reasoning behind this harlequin jacket ?

Strangely not a mention of it by Charles on FL.

 

[colekwok]

That's what immediately came to my mind, looks like a jockey's outfit.

I agree. But of course, you may wonder how many of these will be sold...

 

[Smithy]

I agree. But of course, you may wonder how many of these will be sold...

BR should put an ad in "Jockey Monthly" or "In the Saddle" or whatever the magazine for jockeys is called, they'd sell a ton of them!

 

[Micawber]

What a gay day....

 

[Garylafortuna]

Great for a day at the races. But only for the more flamboyant among us. Definitely not for those who are involved in covert operations.

 

[B-Man2]

It would probably do well at the Indianapolis 500 or the Daytona 500 for those ardent race fans.

 

[Smithy]

I'm half expecting a certain BR rep's website to tell us how this is entirely period accurate and how he handled an original himself back in 1982 in Wherethehellarewe, OH :-D

 

[B-Man2]

Good One !!

 

[Smithy]

Good One !!

The really terrible thing is that I wouldn't be completely surprised if it happened and especially judging by some of the nonsense he has been cooked up over there previously!

 

[Rutger]

MIL-J-6249 jacket, linecrewman, identifying, type G-1.

Yes, contrary to the Northrop MA-1 they existed.

 

[Smithy]

MIL-J-6249 jacket, linecrewman, identifying, type G-1.

Yes, contrary to the Northrop MA-1 they existed.

Well I take it all back then. I had no idea they existed. I knew there were the diamond ID jackets but I never knew they had L-2/MA-1 style knit collars, cuffs and waistbands. I'd always thought they were different.

 

[Rutger]

Oh sorry, didn't check on cuffs or waistbands in particular, do a search and you'll find some originals and specs. I remember the waist definitely unlike MA-1 or L-2. Well, they were only designed to make ground crew around taxiing aircraft more readily visible to the pilots, kind of like the reflective vests that we nowadays have to use on our air port because some nutter thinks we should.

 

[Smithy]

Health and safety Rutger!

 

[Whatsit]

What? You guys don’t hunt?

Yes you could go out rifle hunting wearing that and be the most stylist guy out in the woods

 

[colekwok]

MIL-J-6249 jacket, linecrewman, identifying, type G-1.

Yes, contrary to the Northrop MA-1 they existed.

Oh well, credit to BR then, but I am think that this will not sell unless you are a serious collector while you can't get hold of the original?