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  1. pipvh

    Leather Ike

    ...except that it has epaulettes. Button pockets and epaulettes. I think this was the highly secret "Let's **** With Future Flight Jacket Forums Squadron" (LFWFFJF), whose existence has always been hotly denied by official channels.
  2. pipvh

    An interesting Aero leather conversation I had today...

    Just to add to Speedbird's points, I think that one key difference regarding products such as those of Aero or Easman this side of the Atlantic, is that they came out of an earlier incarnation of street fashion, specifically the interest in 40s and 50s clothes that sprang up here in the early...
  3. pipvh

    British Bike Boot Bonanza!

    Lewis Leathers on Ebay here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280482179609&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT Couple of days left to run - there's a bargain here for some lucky dog! The Gold Tops go on tomorrow.
  4. pipvh

    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    Interesting, Spitfire. Though it does look like a French police coat - CRS, perhaps?
  5. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    I have exactly the same image in my mind's eye. Sleeved waistcoat, fairly big buttons, mandarin collar - heavy serge? Did I see them being worn, or only in photographs? Don't know. I've been thinking about coalmen and draymen and night-watchmen (and braziers in the street). But there's...
  7. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    ...and I'm trying to imagine plus-fours as cycling gear. Without success, it has to be said.
  8. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    Mike, you beat me to it: I was just about to link to that very site...
  9. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    Thanks for joining the discussion, Dave. I think in the UK, suedette means a thick-ish cotton or rayon fabric with a sort of suede-like, almost slubby texture. We seem to like adding '-ette' to our faux fabrics - as in leatherette. A bit of spurious French legitimacy? I had a suedette jacket...
  10. pipvh

    Made in China - Monarch A-2 repros

    What? We aren't going to win the World Cup??
  11. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    Is Dave Himel on FL? I'm sure he'd have something to add. I'm also wondering, speaking of D. Himel (http://vintageleatherjackets.blogspot.com/), whether a lot of the pre-war leather stuff in the UK was imported from Canada. He has some really good stuff on his blog - these, among others...
  13. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    Those jackets are interesting, Mike. I did find a photo of an Irish cycling club taken around 1940, and two of them were wearing a sort of cloth A-2 jacket with club insiginia - but they could easily have been suede, because they looked very like the ones you've showed us. The Dublin Wheelers...
  14. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    Just been looking at the Lewis Leathers site - in their 'archive' section they have a pic of a '30s catalogue with their first leather jacket design. It has waist knits, a conventional collar, a very offset zip and a centrally-placed D pocket. Apparently they introduced this design in the mid...
  15. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    I've just been searching through images and film clips of 1930s UK, and only found two leather garments in the entire exercise - they were coats, in the crowd behind the winners of the Goodwood Double motor race in 1931. The rest - street scenes, demonstrations, motorcycle races, etc etc - no...
  16. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    I do too - I think I've actually seen people wearing them, some sort of very distant memory - I suppose it isn't impossible: I was born in 1964, in London. I think bargemen (bargees?) wore them as well. There were a lot of army leather jerkins around then - I DO remember dustmen and draymen...
  17. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    Thank you, Mr Johnson. The Baron's jacket is lamb napa as well - why the preponderance of lamb over steer and horse (lots of both in the UK)? I think it's more than possible that I have actually seen early jackets and just not known what they were. There are some pictures of RFC coats online...
  19. pipvh

    Vintage wool cycling jerseys

    Thanks for getting back to me, Hendrik. Soooo.... Two Beautiful Belgian Biking jerseys are still for sale! Come on, people - you could be a Lucky Sprinter this summer!
  20. pipvh

    British leather jackets from BEFORE the 1950s?

    Here's a historical question for the leather jacket experts. My interest was picqued by Baron Kurtz's beautiful mandarin-collar A-2-type jacket that he had for sale a little while ago. And then I realized that I couldn't, with any certainly, claim to have seen a single other British leather...
  21. pipvh

    British Bike Boot Bonanza!

    Gus, I've sent you an email.
  22. pipvh

    WWII Theaters of Operation... Which Do You Prefer?

    The LRDGs and the Invasion of Crete have always interested me because of my grandfather. I've also been interested in the Greek partisans for a long time, and of course the Battle of Britain. The next serious bit of non work-related research I have planned, though, is going to be LRDG-focused.
  23. pipvh

    Vintage wool cycling jerseys

    Isboerke: Shoulders 43cm, chest 49cm Lucky Sprinters: Shoulders 46cm, chest 53cm

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