What jacket(s) are you wearing at the moment?

[Micawber]

It will happen, my friend -- my wife's is out of control! (her hair, that is -- no handlebar that I've noticed )

Good on your wife!

I've not had much up top for years so kept what I did have cropped short but it is now sprouting from from the former bald bits too - I gather this could be a temporary phenomenon though. However if it grows up there again it will get cropped with the rest of it. My days of long flowing locks ended when flared trousers went out of fashion in the '70's

 

[busdrivermike]

In my schott 184 as I’m Out for a ride with a friend on this fabulous +14 c day
Ride out of town for Burgers then ride some more for coffee, a great day

 

[B-Man2]

In my schott 184 as I’m Out for a ride with a friend on this fabulous +14 c day
Ride out of town for Burgers then ride some more for coffee, a great day
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Good to see you back Mike !

 

[ausreenactor]

Chemo dictates I can still only grow fuzz at present, maybe one day I will be able to sport a humungous handlebar moustache or stupendous beard again!?

This warms my old cynical heart!

 

[Micawber]

No repro jacket this morning as the weather is more a Barbour Solway Zipper kind of day...

 

[London Cabbie]

No repro jacket this morning as the weather is more a Barbour Solway Zipper kind of day...

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love Barbour.

 

[Tylbor]

May Day holiday in the Beskid Niski mountains — the land of Lemkos (please read about this ethnic group if you are not familiar with it).
The weather was good enough to take my beloved M1950 jacket.

 

[Chandler]

May Day holiday in the Beskid Niski mountains — the land of Lemkos (please read about this ethnic group if you are not familiar with it).
The weather was good enough to take my beloved M1950 jacket.

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M1950? Looks like an M-43 from here.

*Edit: Sorry, I mis-read M1950 as M1951 -- I honestly don't know anything about the 1950 -- very unfamiliar. Can you show us some details? Does it have a zip like the 51, or is it basically a 43 re-labeled?

 

[Smithy]

love Barbour.

Me too. Bloody terrific jackets and about as functional as they get. If the shit hit the fan and the zombie apocalypse happened or aliens invaded earth, you wouldn't be grabbing an A-2 as you fled out the door would you, nah good old Barbour.

 

[MikeyB-17]

My wife hates mine, complains about the smell of the wax-although this is a woman who complains about the smell of fresh air-I kid you not! It’s the ultimate functional, workhorse jacket-tough, waterproof, plenty of pockets-a classic.

 

[Chandler]

...although this is a woman who complains about the smell of fresh air-I kid you not!

It's a womanly thing -- after we go for a long hike in the local forest preserve, we come home and my wife always says, "Yuck -- I smell like the great outdoors." She can never explain just what she doesn't like!

 

[MikeyB-17]

It's a womanly thing -- after we go for a long hike in the local forest preserve, we come home and my wife always says, "Yuck -- I smell like the great outdoors." She can never explain just what she doesn't like!

Yep, that’s it-someone comes in from outside, and she’ll say ‘Ugh, you stink of fresh air!’
The mind boggles.

 

[B-Man2]

I guess it comes down to the fact that there’s just certain odors that bother certain people . Like this guy for instance .

 

[MaydayWei]

Me too. Bloody terrific jackets and about as functional as they get. If the shit hit the fan and the zombie apocalypse happened or aliens invaded earth, you wouldn't be grabbing an A-2 as you fled out the door would you, nah good old Barbour.

Respectfully, you are incorrect. In a zombie apocalypse, you'd reach for your horsehide A2.
Same logic with wearing horsehide when falling off your motorbike; or wearing chain mail when swimming with sharks.
Horsehide will save you from the inevitable bite or two; waxed cotton might not

 

[London Cabbie]

Are you sure @MaydayWei..?

 

[Flightengineer]

This man would destroy zombies even if he left home wearing only his underpants.

 

[Tylbor]

M1950? Looks like an M-43 from here.

*Edit: Sorry, I mis-read M1950 as M1951 -- I honestly don't know anything about the 1950 -- very unfamiliar. Can you show us some details? Does it have a zip like the 51, or is it basically a 43 re-labeled?

According to my knowledge, M1950 was manufactured for the very short time, a year or two. It is basically anM1943 jacket with inside buttons for a liner. It has also different size system with small, medium, large etc.

 

[ausreenactor]

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Two shots won't cut it. Machete, handgun and AR-Fift-Freedom

 

[Flightengineer]

Vintage Soviet Air Force horsehide flight jacket from 1975

 

[ausreenactor]

According to my knowledge, M1950 was manufactured for the very short time, a year or two. It is basically anM1943 jacket with inside buttons for a liner. It has also different size system with small, medium, large etc.

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Like it.. 28th Infantry. Vietnam era chevrons though?