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

[Pa12]

Literally the laziest Halloween costume I could choose:
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Just throw on a helmet and goggles Jan. Good to go.

 

[mulceber]

Yeah…. I can definitely see the resemblance..

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Hah - much as I might try to kid myself, nowhere close. And a good thing too - Natalie would kill me if I tried to jump a motorcycle over a barbed-wire fence.

 

[Thomas Koehle]

Just received the ELC 23373 seal brown from Ebay and ... very happy ! Never worn , the leather was pretty dry , like plastic under my fingers with nasty folds on the side of the sleeves . A little layer of conditionner and it's far better . I may not like the name tag but just don't care about . If I'm upset with it I just have to remove it , I'm a simple guy... ( I wanted a seal brown , now I got one , even if my preferences goes to the stand collar from RW for example , this house ELC 22373 is very cool ) The pics are straight out of the box . Now it's better . The break in process as begun !!!
The trousers is a M41 HBT fatigue from Br MFG aned new Corcoran redyed. ( apologises for the bad pics qualities ! )
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Wow!

Incredible what kinda stuff is still around on "the bay" ...

Looks absolutely period!

Looking forward to see her broken in ...

 

[Thomas Koehle]

Literally the laziest Halloween costume I could choose:
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Doesn`t look scary enuff to be a "real" Halloween-costume ...

Nailed it anyway Jan

 

[ZuZu]

Literally the laziest Halloween costume I could choose:
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Lets fix that colar so it looks more like Hilts'. First- fold the back higher up from the neck hole so the back of the collar folds more like a regular shirt collar. Next- angle down the 2 sides of the collar so they ride against the body of the jacket. Fold the top of the windflap side over as much as it will go. Make sure those collar tips are down down down! Wet before doing all this and let the collar set.

 

[coolhandluke]

Looks like ZuZu's channeling John Madden on his telestrator right about now.

 

[Enigma1938]

What kind of collar diseases is this I discover here and there on this forum lately? Is it contagious?

 

[Micawber]

What kind of collar diseases is this I discover here and there on this forum lately? Is it contagious?

Mk1 OCD creases

 

[Thomas Koehle]

Scored for 60.- bucks on „the bay“: 1975 BRILL in size 46 (feels more like a 44) in very good condition except some stitchmarks from a namebadge and a squadron patch …

 

[ZuZu]

What kind of collar diseases is this I discover here and there on this forum lately? Is it contagious?

It is a disease- but I tell you that those of us who suffer from it have literally helped repros go from smooth "bespoke" shiny Eastmans and Aeros of 2002 to the far more accurate Eastmans and BKs of 2024 to the GW literally almost exact copy repro A-2!

Looking at all these weird characterictics and pointing out how often repros look different here or there translates into better repros.

 

[coolhandluke]

What kind of collar diseases is this I discover here and there on this forum lately? Is it contagious?

Sounds like a bad case of collar-a...

 

[767fo]

It is a disease- but I tell you that those of us who suffer from it have literally helped repros go from smooth "bespoke" shiny Eastmans and Aeros of 2002 to the far more accurate Eastmans and BKs of 2024 to the GW literally almost exact copy repro A-2!

Looking at all these weird characterictics and pointing out how often repros look different here or there translates into better repros.

Please divulge the secret of the RW epaulet. You mentioned that John is the only maker that replicates it years ago. And me with my OCD has been dying to know

 

[Pa12]

It is a disease- but I tell you that those of us who suffer from it have literally helped repros go from smooth "bespoke" shiny Eastmans and Aeros of 2002 to the far more accurate Eastmans and BKs of 2024 to the GW literally almost exact copy repro A-2!

Looking at all these weird characterictics and pointing out how often repros look different here or there translates into better repros.

True. Thought I’d left the rw world forever. Then jc brought me back. And I love it

 

[B-Man2]

Lets fix that colar so it looks more like Hilts'. First- fold the back higher up from the neck hole so the back of the collar folds more like a regular shirt collar. Next- angle down the 2 sides of the collar so they ride against the body of the jacket. Fold the top of the windflap side over as much as it will go. Make sure those collar tips are down down down! Wet before doing all this and let the collar set.

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Well done Zu !!
But honestly, the minutia of this hobby is over whelming at times !!

 

[B-Man2]

Wearing one of those disgustingly vial horsehide Avirex A2’s from 1978.
Go ahead guys tear it apart .

 

[Pa12]

Wearing one of those disgustingly vial horsehide Avirex A2’s from 1978.
Go ahead guys tear it apart .
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Maybe it will fit Fred?

 

[Dany McDonald]

Burt it's halloween after all...

Wearing one of those disgustingly vial horsehide Avirex A2’s from 1978.
Go ahead guys tear it apart .

 

[B-Man2]

Burt it's halloween after all...

Dany
I only bring it out on special occasions ..

 

[Pa12]

Wearing one of those disgustingly vial horsehide Avirex A2’s from 1978.
Go ahead guys tear it apart .
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I thought that was one of your originals

 

[B-Man2]

Burt it's halloween after all...

Dany & Pete
It’s not totally useless…. It can always be used as a”Bad Example “