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

[Nickb123]

Aero Teamster for a few minutes. One of these and an A-2 are all a gent really needs. Time to sell off?

 

[B-Man2]

Aero Teamster for a few minutes. One of these and an A-2 are all a gent really needs. Time to sell off?
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Looks awesome Nick !
Reconsider the “sell off” .
It seems like several guys who did that were always sorry about one or two that they let go. What size are you again?….. 46?…….

 

[mulceber]

That is a seriously nice A-2 Jan, your quest for the grail has ended.

Jan, I woke up this morning thinking about that beautiful new GW 27752 you donned yesterday. All I want now is a bit of cool weather to wear mine, too. That sure is a fine looking jacket. Enjoy it, Jan!

Thanks Brian, as @Micawber quipped, I think this is my grail jacket. Nobody does Rough Wear like JC.

Time to sell off?

I think you'd be mad to sell your B-3 - but dibs if you do!

 

[CBI]

yep a grail GW RW

 

[D97x7]

Fivestar Dubow out in the first rain for a long time.

 

[B-Man2]

Fivestar Dubow out in the first rain for a long time.
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Now that’s what you call “wearing the piss” out of it !

 

[mulceber]

Monarch’s looking good today.

 

[B-Man2]

Monarch’s looking good today.
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Jan
You have two outstanding jackets with that GW Monarch and that GW RW 27752. One russet, one seal . Absolute perfection both of them. Now theoretically you shouldn’t need another A2 for the rest of your life ……..,..,. Hahahaha…. Yeah right !

 

[mulceber]

I'm gonna do my best, Burt! Nowadays, whenever I think A-2 jacket, I try to remind myself that there are a million other cool jacket designs out there too. We'll see how long that works.

 

[blackrat2]

Shoot Jan, you know my thoughts
on the RW but having seen a close up of the Monarch I now think Burt is right…one in each colour

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Yep, Burt is spot on. Now you just have to put some solid wear into them and rack up your mission count. And then there’s your Pancho jacket … that’s a very tidy collection just there. But you wouldn’t be here having this conversation if that was when the credits roll now would you?

 

[B-Man2]

Jan
You have two outstanding jackets with that GW Monarch and that GW RW 27752. One russet, one seal . Absolute perfection both of them. Now theoretically you shouldn’t need another A2 for the rest of your life ……..,..,. Hahahaha…. Yeah right !

Jan
As a add on to my last post , I’m laughing because I’ve been trying to convince myself that I only needed two jackets for the last 30 years . That was about 40 jackets ago . And that sir, is how
Rule #14 came to be:

14. I’ve promised myself that I would never buy another jacket, but that was 8 years and 11 jackets ago.

 

[Nickb123]

Thanks Brian, as @Micawber quipped, I think this is my grail jacket. Nobody does Rough Wear like JC.

I think you'd be mad to sell your B-3 - but dibs if you do!

Never selling the B-3. Though it’s going to be 104F today in the California Bay Area (on a visit).

Burt, my jackets hover from a 40-46. Good Wears are 44-46 range except for the 37J1.

 

[B-Man2]

Never selling the B-3. Though it’s going to be 104F today in the California Bay Area (on a visit).

Burt, my jackets hover from a 40-46. Good Wears are 44-46 range except for the 37J1.

First dibs on the 46s Nick

 

[ausreenactor]

Cool and gray today, so I’m sporting my latest A-2 (and my last for a long time) - GW Rough Wear 27752 in Horween seal:
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Swish!

 

[mulceber]

Never selling the B-3.

Good man.

 

[bseal]

Monarch’s looking good today.
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You’ve gotten lots of feedback on your Horween RW 27752. Regardless, please hang on to this gem of a Monarch.

 

[B-Man2]

For “Throw Back Wednesday” something a little different. Some photos from a member who was here only long enough to show us his Grand Dads Original Werber 1729 that he inherited and to ask for our advice about changing the knits out on the jacket.
We explained how rare of a jacket he had and suggested that he just leave the knits alone however,
I don’t think he listened to our advice.
I wonder how it all worked out for him

 

[CBI]

wow a RARE size 50

 

[mulceber]

Y'know, I'm starting to suspect that large sizes were a lot more common in the earlier contracts. The SAT that got posted (around the same time as that Werber? Maybe a little earlier) was a 46. It would make sense though - in 1932 the Army Air Corps was mostly adult men in their late 20s, 30s and beyond. They'd need bigger sizes than the 18 year olds they were recruiting by 1940.