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The USN boat cloaks seem to have had red lining for nurses and blue for men. The blue lining seems to have been in various shades, whatever your tailor on hand I suppose (the colour of the lining didn't denote branch or whatever like with Army capes).

Here's a photo of Point Pelee (southernmost part of Canada) taken from a commercial airline by a friend returning home. Really shows the sandbars, etc, well. Lake Erie of course is a shallow lake and when I was a kid urban legend had it that you take a small boat out into the middle of the lake...

This is a good point. I don't think we'll ever know but I'm sure many firms drifted out of business or shifted into other lines as demand from military people shrank.

Here is what appears to be a USN coat cloak dated 1917 (see photo of tag). The frog across the chest is missing.

Make sure that the length of the circle you cut is the same length as the collar. Measure twice, cut once, etc. I have seen on some wool greatcoats, from mainly former Warsaw Pact countries, collars which are once piece: they just cut it in the shape of a collar, fold the outer edges underneath...

This watch if fkkking amazing. I love it!! Thanks for posting.

^ That's a newer liner, looks like dated 2000, and the darker tag made of a plasticized paper is a giveaway. The liner posted by "windrunner" is dated 1974, and it's white and paper, so much older. So maybe they started doing different lengths for newer spec jackets? The M-65 jacket, modernized...

Sometimes the best thing to do is buy a cheap one and see if you like it. You might end up hating these types of jackets! Then you're only down a small amount of $$. As to the $200 jacket, that would be too much for me, unless I was dead sure it was vintage and not a good Japanese repro* and in...

That would be the course of action I'd probably choose, too. The last thing you want to do is spill coffee on a jacket with a lot of memories, especially when a good vintage or a modern-day repro version can be bought pretty easily which you can then proceed to wear the crap out of and put your...

I had a new repro US army parka that (oddly) was supplied with an original liner, the poly batting one, and it was basically useless in winter. Maybe over a dozen layers it would have been fine, but if you live anyplace that gets proper cold in winter find something better if you want it to keep...

The tag is a military tag (or a Japanese reproduction) and given it's good condition suggest the jacket is lightly worn, or at least hasn't been washed.

I'm too lazy to check right now but my memory is telling me that the triple line on older Alpha tags indicates a "made in USA" product for the civilian market. I have long believed that for a while they just sold military spec clothing to the civilian market before switching to clothing made...

Just watched the extra on the DVD set and according to the actor who plays Haggarty they filmed 6 episodes with the characters Craven and North, then, because they wanted to sell the show to the US market, they brought in the Haggarty character to revv up the show and make it more exciting. But...

^ Edward makes a good point in his last sentence above. Military stuff, especially British stuff, is often designed to fit on physically fit men aged in their 20s which means a nice military greatcoat almost certainly won't be something you can wear for decades to come, even though the coat...

Partway into watching the 1973 season of Special Branch, an old British tv series. Great stuff, exciting, really keeps my attention, I love the emphasis on location filming (rather than on-set "office" stuff). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Branch_(TV_series)