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

[Spitfireace]

Holy Moly, what a jacket, Burt.
What does 1944 smell like?

awful

 

[Spitfireace]

Today's jacket. Good Wear Dubow 23379 in Shinki red russet Horse hide. One of my Favorites.

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Nice jacket, but very blurry on the photo.

 

[Spitfireace]

Here's me again in the Monarch and looking like a maroon! Or maybe it was a palooka?

 

[B-Man2]

Here's me again in the Monarch and looking like a maroon! Or maybe it was a palooka? View attachment 68731View attachment 68731

What an great looking Monarch !
That’s a keeper for life .

 

[Spitfireace]

Thankyou! It sits in the drawer mostly. I can't wear it just casually as I actually intended to wear an original. It is wearable, but mainly I think of it as a museum thing because of the provenance of it. I know of the history of the jacket.

Max Petrisek, 17th Bomb Group, 95th Bomb Sqaudron.

 

[Spitfireace]

The jacket original issued to guy is still alive and 97 lives in Pennsylvania. He was born in 1924 in June I think and my dad was same year in September. They are both still alive.

 

[Spitfireace]

He was not happy when I contacted him about the jacket. He thought I was trying to scam him or something and then he said "put it in a box and send it to me". But no I owned it before I knew who owned it.
All military personnel turn in their kits. I did. Didn't want to pay for anything as I was out of work at that point.

 

[Spitfireace]

The other jacket. An Aero.

 

[mulceber]

He was not happy when I contacted him about the jacket. He thought I was trying to scam him or something and then he said "put it in a box and send it to me". But no I owned it before I knew who owned it.

Wait, so did he think that you were trying to sell him his jacket back? If you could explain further what happened, I’d be interested in hearing.

 

[Spitfireace]

I got the feeling he was thinking I was scamming him or something. The jacket has his service number stamped in it. So he knows once I quoted it , that it is his jacket.

 

[Spitfireace]

Once I saw he knew it was his jacket, I said I would sell it to him for what I paid. He said no send it to me for free. A little demanding I thought.

 

[B-Man2]

For those who may not have heard about a few times when members here, did some background research on the original owners of some of these jackets, stories like the one above do happen occasionally . I remember one member who experienced the same thing. He contacted the WWII vet and advised him that he had acquired his A2, and the vet became pretty irate and demanded his jacket back . Much of the same as mentioned above happened . The member said he would be happy to return the jacket and just asked to be reimbursed for his cost for the jacket . According to the story the vet got pissed off and said it was his jacket and it should be returned with no compensation to the member . It got a bit ugly as I remember it.
Researching these jackets is interesting and fun , but I think that you have to know when to let it go . Contacting the vet or his family may not always end up being a positive experience for either party .

 

[busdrivermike]

Nov 7 and still riding on this +6c sunny day while wearing my schott 184
With light insulated jacket and heated vest under it
My four legged friend is Moses, his owner asked me to watch
Him while he grabbed a coffee

 

[Nickb123]

I really like the jewels.

 

[MauldinFan]

Wore the Cooper A2 I painted when I was still active duty. Hadn't worn it in a very long time.

Got a lot of comments which caused my wife to roll her eyes...

 

[AlexLutov]

Ghastly weather today, 3 Celsius with sleet and rain but perfect for the Barnstormer and my old Royal Flying Corps scarf...

Great aero! to what sub-zero temperatures do you wear it?

 

[Smithy]

Great aero! to what sub-zero temperatures do you wear it?

With a submariner jumper it's wearable down to about -5 Alex, with thermals and the sub jumper down to about -10, although once it gets that cold I generally wear my Irvin or a parka.

 

[YoungMedic]

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Man it just doesn't get much cooler than these two. Great jackets !

 

[Kermit3D]

Bill Kelso A-2 Dubow 27798 "Dracula style collar"

 

[Kermit3D]

"Hartmann" cyclist jacket