REALLY early Aviation Leathercraft?

[Hawkeye]

This looks like one of those cheapy, post war Irvin copies but has an Irvin Air Chute label similar in style to the one Aviation Leathercraft uses. This almost looks too early for ALC so would this in fact be a post-war Irvin Air Chute manufactured jacket?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/old-irvin-flying- ... 500wt_1182

 

[John Lever]

I have an ALC from 1976/7, one of the first one's they made, long before they relocated to Thruxton. It cost me £120, back then this was a small fortune. The label has the same logo, but it has other text as well. The label on this jacket looks like the one they used to copy from and I would say it is an Airchute jacket from the 1950's or 60's. The outer colour is too good for ALC which is too dark.

 

[havocpaul]

Why do sellers so often not provide any relevant info in their descriptions...size, measurements etc.

 

[Roughwear]

I agree with John on this one. It's most likely a 50s comercial jacket made by IAC. Its unusual to see this style of IAC label in a post War jacket until ALC bought the rights the name in the 1970s.