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

[Dany McDonald]

Is there a way to I.D. MASH-made A-10s?

They are very nice...

Seriously, I wear a pair (MASH) almost everyday its cold and they get a lot of attention from friends and colleagues.

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[Chandler]

They are very nice...

Seriously, I wear a pair (MASH) almost everyday its cold and they get a lot of attention from friends and colleagues.

D

I bought a pair from HPA back in the early 90s -- I think ELC was making them in-house at the time, but I'm not sure. Thus my question.

I keep my pair in the pocket of my N-3B -- it's a good combo.

 

[Dany McDonald]

I keep my pair in the pocket of my N-3B -- it's a good combo.

It is a good match for sure. Do you know if they were still in service at the time of the Korean war?

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[Smithy]

Today morning Platon Dubow and Collins' spacesuit

Great to see you could get the parka off Dmitry. After a week of nothing warmer than a high of between -8 and -10 (that's the highs BTW campers), it suddenly shot up to 0 today - pure bliss.

One of these days I'll take a photo of me wearing something, I promise.

 

[Chandler]

It is a good match for sure. Do you know if they were still in service at the time of the Korean war?

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Sorry, I don't know -- but there were certainly a lot of items still being issued from stores. I have my father's 1942 HBT jacket that was issued to him in 1953.

Always wondered why it had buttons under the collar -- turned out to be the HBT variant that was fitted with the gas flap (removed after WW2) and buttons for the gas hood to be attached.

 

[Flightengineer]

Great to see you could get the parka off Dmitry. After a week of nothing warmer than a high of between -8 and -10 (that's the highs BTW campers), it suddenly shot up to 0 today - pure bliss.

One of these days I'll take a photo of me wearing something, I promise.

Tim, I got off parka, as you can see, only in the museum where it’s +22 C inside Everything is unchanged outside, winter/frost/huge snowdrifts. So my parka was waiting for me in the museum's cloack room while I looked at the spacesuits and rockets.

 

[Micawber]

ELC A-10's and a BR LSL Garment Co B-10

 

[D97x7]

Gizemo N-1

 

[D97x7]

Bonus, two jacket day, the above for shopping and below to walk the dogs

 

[Dany McDonald]

ELC A-10's and a BR LSL Garment Co B-10

Great combo Steve, A-10 and B-10!

That white mouton is always nice to see on those jackets. Buzz does a beautiful B-10, if only they would correct the knits colors to a more brownish hue, like the supposedly original they have in their vault. That repros would be complete.


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[Nickb123]

ELC Dubow - pardon the background

 

[Brettafett]

AVI ANJ

 

[Flightengineer]

AVI ANJ
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Brett, is it more blackish or is that the light in the pic?

 

[Brettafett]

Terrible pic! Phone and cold afternoon lighting.
The leather is the same as the G-1. Love it.

 

[John Luder]

ELC A-10's and a BR LSL Garment Co B-10

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Very nice looking jacket. The knit looks pretty good, could be a tad browner. I'll have to dig my father's B-15 out of the cedar chest and send a photo taken in daylight.
You're in East Anglia, home base of Jimmy Stewart during the War. Can you identify this patch? Have you seen any like it in the local musea?

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Aero Late War Irvin today plus ELC's A-10 gloves.

 

[Micawber]

Very nice looking jacket. The knit looks pretty good, could be a tad browner. I'll have to dig my father's B-15 out of the cedar chest and send a photo taken in daylight.
You're in East Anglia, home base of Jimmy Stewart during the War. Can you identify this patch? Have you seen any like it in the local musea?

Yes it's a 703rd Bomb Squadron Patch. The 703rd was part of the 445th Bomb Group based at Tibenham, Norfolk just a few miles away from my place.

 

[Chandler]

You're in East Anglia, home base of Jimmy Stewart during the War. Can you identify this patch? Have you seen any like it in the local musea?

703rd Bomb Squadron. Do a Jimmy Stewart search on the forum -- he's beyond hero status.

 

[London Cabbie]

Saw a fella wearing an Early Irving today few seams. It was gorgeous. It was quite a light brown almost burnt orange. I couldn’t stop, punter on board. Through the window congratulated him ‘it’s an original’ he declared. Sorry I couldn’t get photo. Marylebone high st, London. Hope he’s on here…

 

[John Luder]

703rd Bomb Squadron. Do a Jimmy Stewart search on the forum -- he's beyond hero status.

Beauty. Thanks to you and Steve. I never got to meet the General, but I've friends who did. The church where he and Gloria married is still there, in Brentwood, used to pass it all the time. He is legendary, beyond a doubt. I've painted squadron patches, but that was thirty years ago when I had a steady hand and two eyes. It's a bit more challenging these days, especially the straight lines, as in Doolittle's WRIGHT patch.