Deck Jacket advice

[Gimli]

Looking for some advice on purchasing a deck jacket (Size S).
Maybe you know some brands or outlets I’m not familiar with?

Have pined for one ever since trying on a pike brothers. Then the shop closed down. Am in Australia so very hard to try out any.

This is what I’m after:
- darker colours preferred.
- real wool or alpaca, not synthetic.
- no stencil.
- hood is a bonus. I understand this is not historically accurate but am after functionality over accurate repro.
- inside pocket.

Any advice Is gratefully received.

 

[TartuWolf]

Here you go:
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/the-deck-jacket-thread.103667

 

[Peacoat]

Here you go:
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/the-deck-jacket-thread.103667

Yes, a lot of information in that thread.

I have a 1966 Navy issue deck jacket (A-2) that is high quality and warm. It has no stencils. If you can find an original, that would be the way to go. A buddy of mine, to whom the jacket was issued, gave it to me about 20 years ago when he outgrew it. Of course very few can be that fortunate.

 

[mumpy]

Pike brothers do a brown waxed one that ticks all your boxes except the hood. Good value for money I think.

 

[jeo]

Pike Bro’s is probably best value.

1943 N1 Deck Jacket Omaha | S | P0301-20-0012-S

Von den Stränden der Normandie bis hin zu den pazifischen Inseln war die N1-Deck Jacket im Einsatz und entwickelte sich im Laufe der Zeit zu dem beliebtesten Kleidungsstück der amerikanischen Streitkräfte.Der Aufbau der N-1 Deck Jacket besteht aus einem…

www.pikebrothers.com

Dehen make a great one.

N-1 Deck Jacket - Navy / Brown

The influence of WWII on our American culture is alive and well 70+ years after victory. Dehen 1920 introduces our very own and very special version of the Naval N-1 Deck Jacket. Constructed of a 10.10 oz. waxed canvas outer shell with a luxurious mouton lining, this jacket represents the very...

dehen1920.com

The Real McCoys is a classic.

The Real McCoy's The Real McCoy's N-1 Deck Jacket (2021 Model) - Navy

The 2021 Model of the N-1 Deck Jacket is the most accurate reissue to-date from The Real McCoy's. Featuring an entirely re-designed fabric based on countless hours of studying original samples, a new tonal topstitching thread that matches the shell, and a higher count SPI (stitches-per-inch)...

standardandstrange.com

 

[Aloysius]

Lol that preview alone makes me laugh. Does it get more Standard & Strange than trying to use stitches per inch as a buzzword?

 

[El Marro]

I’ve got two Iron Heart N-1’s and I highly recommend them. They have everything you are looking for except the hood (thank god!).

 

[CatsCan]

As far as I know, a hooded version is also historically correct.

Pike Brothers has an olive waxed version (non-hooded). It is a very dark olive. Original N1s started their "life" in an olive drab shade #3 before they bleached into "khaki" shades of all intensities, up to kind of yellowish. Olive drab #3 is a pale olive (like the one in the above shown image abeit the photo does not show the color exactly right). The later A-2 Deck Jackets were olive drab #7, which is a darker olive. Modern olive colors and tan shades will not have this effect, they fade to a kind of pale grey-olive instead. All of Pike Brothers N-1s come with an inside pocket. They ship worldwide. Price is much lower than any Buzz or Real Mccoy even when considering shipping costs and import duty. Quality is very good, a hard wearing, indestructable make. 100% wool liner, dense Jungle Cloth outer. Just not my taste anymore (fit-wise, they have long and a bit bulky sleeves).

Bronson is fitting better. But I recently had a quality issue with one single speciman N1 I purchased by Bronson and returing to china is not a cheap thing.

You can easily attatch an inside pocket stitched directly to the liner, by the way. It won't show from the outside.