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  1. nightandthecity

    ALL ORIGINAL Irvin RAF type Jackets - Loving that Wolf in sheeps' clothing!

    glad you like the jacket Andrew, I might have known it would end up with you! I purchased this jacket from Buck Taylor's son back in (I think) 1991, and sold it in a moment of financial need in 1999 to a well known southern jacket collector...let's call him J.C. Taylor's son advertized it in...
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    Show Us Your OVERCOATS

    I have a couple of these and have seen many more - it was a very common pattern in the 1940s/50s. I've heard them called "city coats". Burtons seem to have made a lot of them, or at least the ones still in circulation. One of mine is dated 1949 on the tailors label, which is probably about right...
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    Terror attack in Oslo, Norway

    yes, even from my brief perusal of the British press I get the impression of a fantasist. A couple of his self portraits look like movie posters for a Hollywood action blockbuster; and then the whole "Knights Templar" thing.....though the papers seem to be taking this organization seriously I...
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    Terror attack in Oslo, Norway

    I sat in café this morning and read the papers, all that follows is simply taken from what it currently says in the mainstream British press….. The early claim of responsibility by a Jihadist group was a hoax. Breivik belongs to a small extreme-Right group who see themselves as a revival...
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    Rockabilly anyone??

    For my money the best band to come out of the UK for a long time.... http://www.myspace.com/thedelrioramblers http://www.raucousrecords.com/rockabilly-cds_21/go-away-hound-dog-cd_11881.aspx Their sound is so authentic it’s fooled a lot of people into thinking they were listening to...
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    TONIGHT 14th Sept. (UK-BBC2) FIRST LIGHT

    A stunning production all round, and deeply moving. In fact I liked it so much I watched it again today on Iplayer! Yes, the occassional anachronism/error (....that four bladed prop...) but that side of things was way superior to most WW2 films/documentaries. I read somewhere they made...
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    LUFTWAFFE jackets - Eagles who Dare to Wear..!

    just a couple of comments.... In Marcel Carne's superb "Le Jour se Leve" (filmed 1938, released 1939) Jean Gabin wears a perfect "ELC Hartmann" jacket when riding his bike at start of film, and when about to commit suicide at the very end. If you scroll to the very bottom of this page you...
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    THE UK WIDEBOYS ?

    thought I'd resurrect this thread just to mention that I have finally picked up a genuine wideboy suit. It was bespoke made by a West End tailor and has CC41 utility labels despite breaking every utility rule re conserving material! The jacket is of course DB. The shoulders are heavily...
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    LUFTWAFFE jackets - Eagles who Dare to Wear..!

    yes, you could almost see them as representing the two Anarchist organizations! The irony of the CNT/FAI relationship was that the FAI was founded to keep the CNT on the revolutionary road and away from "reformist" trades unionism, but in the event it was the ordinary workers of the CNT that...
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    LUFTWAFFE jackets - Eagles who Dare to Wear..!

    I love that picture of the two CNT militiamen for the contrast between the two......the chap on the left, as you noticed, looks rather out of place in his hardcore leather jacket and military cap. One suspects he would rather have been at home with pipe and slippers. The young guy, however, is a...
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    LUFTWAFFE jackets - Eagles who Dare to Wear..!

    hello Mr. Johnson! I have several nice examples of British leather jackets from the 1930s to the mid-1950s, but most of my late 1950s/1960s British Rocker jackets have been moved on to fund other things. I also sold all the European jackets I had......shortly before such jackets started...
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    LUFTWAFFE jackets - Eagles who Dare to Wear..!

    hello Baron, good to see you too. I'm afraid I don't get much time to hang out here any more. There are lots of similar pics available of French Resistance fighters, but that one is quite a famous one and so was easy to find. I should add that the old codger in the first pic was not...
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    LUFTWAFFE jackets - Eagles who Dare to Wear..!

    ha! That is exactly how I think of them! Also as Spanish Republican jackets. jackets of this type were widespread in western Europe in the 1930s-50s era. On occassion my LW even fulfills the role of 50s/60s British greaser jacket. IIRC, the handsome chap in the second pic is an...
  16. nightandthecity

    Duke of Windsor and the Nazis

    we had some discussion of the Duke's fascist sympathies in the context of this thread, a while ago now http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=21335&highlight=simpson
  17. nightandthecity

    Wool sweater shrinkage

    try ironing the arms (wool setting of course!) and stretching and pulling at the same time. This usually works, though the sweater will probably go back to the start point after the next wash and you'll have to do it again.
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    LEATHER RESTORATION

    let me second (or rather third) the ban on neatsfoot oil. It has destroyed many a good vintage leather jacket. Always check the ingredients of the various proprietary dressings that are available as some include neatsfoot. Pecard is excellent stuff. Various leather dyes are available...
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    Zippers

    press-stud excitement! now then chaps.... I thought I'd post this here rather than start a new thread as press-studs (US snap fasteners) and zippers are a closely related issue for all jacket geeks, and it seems the same kind of obscure international links were operating. I have just...
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    Cleaning Kid Gloves

    I've an idea benzoline it is an old synonym for benzol.... I would have thought naptha or petrol would have similar properties, these are what people have used in the past for home dry-cleaning. But as I said, there's a good chance they can be washed. The main thing to watch for if...
  22. nightandthecity

    GRENFELL CLOTH jacket & PICK 777 slipover/tank top

    I've got various things on ebay at the moment, but the gems have to be a rare example of the Pick 777, allegedly the original "slipover" design from 1929, and a beautiful example of a mid 20th century Grenfell Cloth windcheater. These are the sort of things I keep for myself when they are my...
  23. nightandthecity

    Repro WWII Officers Dress Uniform

    I keep coming across these people's stuff when trawling ebay. They seem to be shifting an awful lot of gear. Mostly German but also British, US, Italian etc. I'm not really into repro gear but I'm kind of curious to know if the quality is any good. Anyone here had any experience of this...
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