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    Eastman Leather Clothing USN G-1 intermediate Flying Jacket, spec. 55-J-14

    Thank you, Fanch! I never have understood why the service branches back in the day offered long fittings, for the most part, in both the cloth and sheepskin flying suits, but the respective intermediate jackets such as the A-2, M-422 and its derivatives, and G-1 all were offered only as...
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    Eastman Leather Clothing USN G-1 intermediate Flying Jacket, spec. 55-J-14

    That is too bad. There are a few customers who could swing this G-1 with a 49" chest measure, but for the majority of big guys, 48" is about as large a chest measure as one can have and be comfortable.
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    Eastman Leather Clothing USN G-1 intermediate Flying Jacket, spec. 55-J-14

    This is Eastman Leather Clothing USN G-1 intermediate Flying Jacket, spec. 55-J-14, which was the very first G-1 dating from 1947. Eastman uses a fully vegetable-tanned, aniline-dyed goatskin with a coarse, tight, pebbled grain that has all of wonderful characteristics of a vegetable-tanned...
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    Buzz Rickson’s USAAF Superior Togs B-10 Flying Jacket

    Here’s Buzz Rickson’s USAAF B-10 Flying Jacket, Superior Togs. So as to help put the B-10 images now following into some sort of fit perspective, it’s a size 40. I'm doing the modeling and my body measures are as follows: 40" chest circumference, 30" waist, 33" shirt sleeve, 5' 9" tall, 148...
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    Help identifying leather = )

    Definitely not goat. Cowhide, steer hide, or horsehide would all be in the running, though.
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    ELMC Californian

    Such qualitative issues are bound to happen, unfortunately, even to the best, but they should always reflect the exception and part of the vast, overwhelming minority of goods made. Good QC is a bit like proofreading and editing your own writing, which is something not easily done and often...
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    ELMC Californian

    This member lives in the UK, so there'd be no advantage to buy from us and we don't sell Eastman goods to the UK for the same obvious reasons; however, when we take delivery of the new ELMC Californians in the HPA-only special long fittings for fall 2015, we'll be selling these to anyone who...
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    ELMC Californian

    The sleeve creasing is kept on the mild side of the scale, which varies a bit from jacket to jacket; overall, I'd say it's about what you'd expect after a month of regular use. The example here is used, so how much more creasing is a result of the prior owner is hard to gauge, but it's...
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    A-2 colors

    Marginal to none. The weight evaluations performed for bomber crews in the ETO dated 1943 (to determine where weight could be saved to increase plane load and speed) list the weight of all of the clothing and gear (the clothing tested was in size 38) and this reflects A-2 weight that is spot on...
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    The Fedora Lounge Vintage-Style Leather Jacket Collaboration Designed by You

    I do, as well. It's definitely German styling as sometimes worn by WWII Luftwaffe fighter pilots. Here it's being depicted in an interesting German skier look of the 1930s as adopted by gebirgsjaeger units: goggles, bergmutze with edelweiss abzeichen, berghosen, snap clip, ski boots and...
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    The Fedora Lounge Vintage-Style Leather Jacket Collaboration Designed by You

    I agree with you, devilish. Going in, I knew this was likely to end up as it has, hence my continued use of verbiage and phrases that were open ended such as "if we can agree." Just as it now sits, there hasn't been enough participation to even come remotely close to ever making a jacket...
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    The Fedora Lounge Vintage-Style Leather Jacket Collaboration Designed by You

    I'm sorry I never realized until reading this that your "fit" post was about this project. Thank you for the efforts!
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    A-2 colors

    The observation you've made with respect to the A-2s of the period being less heavy than repros today is something I've taken issue with very vocally. Suppleness of hides, to an extent, did vary, especially in wartime production, so I wouldn't say all vintage A-2s when new didn't have some...
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    A-2 colors

    You're most welcome! And you are correct, Big J, except to be totally precise, russet and seal brown aren't modern terms in the same way "redskin" is; russet and seal brown are period-correct military terms but applied in a manner within the collecting/enthusiast community today consistent with...
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    A-2 colors

    Yup, that's the whole issue at hand that has been so exponentially perverted over decades by manufacturers, retailers, amateur historian authors, and the like. It's always stuck out glaringly for me going back decades, but in the last 10-15 years with more online discussions formed and more...
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    A-2 colors

    Beautiful set with nice-looking bullion! I like the 1/35 scale Pzkpfw. VI model in the background, too.
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    A-2 colors

    Well, the USN jackets were darker in color to begin with, so I think that made for less fluctuation and more simplicity in color matching, though I've certainly seen enough shift in dye lots within USN jackets, but they are all in the mid-range to dark range of brown. Also, in the specs. for...
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    A-2 colors

    Yes, Andrew is correct that the only color was seal brown throughout the life of the A-2. If we accept the A-2s of the 1930s as being nearest to the time of origin of the established color and the fact that the 1930s jackets were produced from a color spectrum more uniform and in lighter shades...
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    A-2 colors

    Actually, "pinks and greens" weren't all made by tailors: the U. S. Army contracted for some officer uniform items, so there were contractor-made blouses and trousers, but an officer had to purchase these using his clothing allowance. Most of the hodgepodge of A-2 coloration was a result of...
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    Diamond Clothing Black Shinki Buco J100

    Duty and taxes should be reclaimable if you contact the authorities first to establish the proper protocol; every country we deal with, which includes Australia, will not charge you twice if you follow the correct protocol, and if you want a refund, the charges can also be received back...

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