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  1. nightandthecity

    1930s leather jackets: ad photos

    Mad Hatter - there is a thread elsewhere in "general attire"about zippers. It petered out recently but I shall probably revive it when I have more time. Zippers can be the radiocarbon dating of vintage jackets!
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    Zippers

    Seriously guys, zips are very important, for several reasons! Firstly, they are one of the main ways we have of more precisely dating a garment. Also a good way of deciding the national origins in the absence of labels etc. I can often tell at a glance where and when an item is from just by...
  3. nightandthecity

    Zippers

    OK here goes...... ....BTW, what exactly does your book say about the link between the two companies? cheers!
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    Zippers

    Alan - you sound like my sort of chap! And that sounds like my sort of book! I am very interested in the connection between TALON and LIGHTNING. The latter, as you know, were one of the great UK zip companies in the 30s and 40s and were THE great UK zip co. in the 50s and 60s. But it is very...
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    The Swing Movement

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    Neat Links I've found

    top stuff humblestumble! Some of them I had, but a lot of new ones there. Ace! Many thanks!
  8. nightandthecity

    Cooking in the Golden Era

    well Naama, we had some pretty disgusting stuff in England too. I still remember watching my father eat tripe - cows stomach. This was eaten raw with salt and vinegar. And pigs trotters, known as the "Saturday night mouth organ" because you had to suck a lot to get the little bits of meat out...
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    Opinions on Cooper A-2's?

    Cooper are very modern in styling and the quality of the build/materials. Big droopy shoulders, thinner leather, and so on. In fact, Avirex are probably better, particularly their older stuff. But neither is really "period accurate" to WW2. For that you need Eastman, Aero, Real McCoy, Lost...
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    What's on your bookshelf?

    My house overflows with books. Every room downstairs is pretty well lined with them, even the hallway. I read all the time, but mostly non-fiction, particularly history. At the moment I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m reading ?¢‚Ǩ?ìPublic Enemies?¢‚Ǩ? by Bryan Burroughs, a new (and excellent) account of the 1930s...
  11. nightandthecity

    WANTED: 1930's STYLE LEATHER JACKET...

    36 38 and 40 are commonest sizes from the mid 20th century, but i have still seen plenty your size on ebay...and you'll find plenty among Aero's cheapos I'm sure. Keep looking, everything turns up on ebay in the end! I'm sure one thing most people on this site have in common is that they...
  13. nightandthecity

    Better fit

    readers might find this of interest. Its copied from http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/STALIN.HTM The writer makes the usual ritual sneering at Soviet backwardness, but my reaction on reading it was to think that the late USSR probably preserved older and better standards of...
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    Better fit

    In the UK I noticed armholes getting bigger in the 80s, at first on shirts. Funnily enough I just tried on a Peter Werth brown cord overcoat I noticed knocked down in a local remaindered store. Original price in three figures of course. The raised arm test pushed the shoulders up almost over...
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    WANTED: 1930's STYLE LEATHER JACKET...

    actually FT the classic 30s and 40s military leathers were based on civilian designs, and there was continual interplay between military and civilian designs throughout that era. Plus a lot of military jackets made their way onto the back of by many a thug and working man (in particular the...
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    sewing a patch onto an A-2

    I've seen originals glued on, stitched on by hand, and machine stitched with a variety of threads. But the commonest by far is machine stitched with US Army heavy duty Olive Drab thread - the same 16oz stuff used to make the jackets. In the UK at least this would usually have been done on the...
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    Japanese Flight Jacket Books

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    Japanese Flight Jacket Books

    I have owned "Suit Up" for several years and find it invaluable. I also have some japanese denim books, equally mouthwatering and equally useful. I also have some Japanese Flight Jacket magazines from the 80s or early 90s...Yes, it seems they have ( or had) periodicals dedicated to flight...
  20. nightandthecity

    What's up with Nick and Jessica?

    I think this thread has just about run it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s course, and I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t want to revive the disputed thread by the back door either, but I am curious about this quote. And I mean curious, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m not trying to start an argument! James, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m wondering what your source is for...
  21. nightandthecity

    OVER

    Now look what you've done to my blood pressure. You got my vote. Honest, no favouritism either. You ought to win.
  22. nightandthecity

    Zippers

    Elias Howe is said to have invented a proto-zipper in the 1850s, but I think the modern zip dates to WW1. Mud is right about Lee jeans (1926 I think), but zips seem to have been generally slow to catch on with trousers. Levi didn't use them till 1951, and very sparingly until the 60s, and I...
  23. nightandthecity

    girls in guy's garb

    There are those who would probably class all of us here as "sissy boys" simply because of our excessive interest in clothes! Very suspect. Every red-blooded he-man knows REAL MEN ARE SLOBS!

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