The Adventurer's Gear Thread

[John in Covina]

Galloshes? Totes still make some mid high ones. Maybe a surplus store.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Would any of these work?
Swiss (leather)

Italian

you might be on to something with the leather swis ones. i am thinking that if they are properly treated with some sort of water repellent they will fit the bill just fine. two things i noticed. they look black in the picture. i would want them redyed to a dark brown since i would usually be wearing them with a pair of WWII officers pinks. also, shouldn't the buckles be on the inside of the wearers leg, or does it not even matter?
thanx!!!
Charlie

 

[Creeping Past]

With the buckles on the inside, you'd find they'd rub, tangle or otherwise get in your way...

 

[buler]

More pictures of this vest please

Bellytank, just went thru this thread and I'm drooling over the vest in this picture. Any chance you can post more pics (at least a front and back) of this??? Please!

Thanks
Bill

 

[BellyTank]

Glad you like it.

I'll have to find it. I've moved house twice since then.


B
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[RBH]

Bellytank, just went thru this thread and I'm drooling over the vest in this picture. Any chance you can post more pics (at least a front and back) of this??? Please!

Thanks
Bill

I have just seen this hat, I have one just like it coming in from E-Bay next week. Do you have any information on yours?
Or any other photos?

 

[BellyTank]

The hat is made from khaki cotton twill, lined/structured with cork of about 1/16". I have since removed the cork from the crown.


B
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[RBH]

The hat is made from khaki cotton twill, lined/structured with cork of about 1/16". I have since removed the cork from the crown.


B
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Thanks BT, I wanted the hat for its 'rural' look, but it has that adventure style going for it also.
It just may be a very versatile hat.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

With the buckles on the inside, you'd find they'd rub, tangle or otherwise get in your way...

how would they get in the way?

 

[Creeping Past]

They'd get in the way by rubbing or catching on each other. At least, that's my thinking on why all gaiters, whether canvas or leather, have the buckles on the outside.

 

[RBH]

Thanks BT, I wanted the hat for its 'rural' look, but it has that adventure style going for it also.
It just may be a very versatile hat.

Just got this one in and I love it!
maybe I can get a shot of it soon with my safari jacket.

 

[David Conwill]

I'll bet this guy reads The Chap.

"MOSES" STOOD BY THE AUTHOR THROUGH THICK AND THIN

Though fat and forty when the hazardous journey began, the Chinese houseboy, a heritage from Mr. Lattimore's father, refused to be left behind. He lost most of his surplus flesh in one agonizing tramp of 30 miles under the hot sun of the Mongolian border. By using what he styled "hard words" to a hostile tax collector, he smuggled the entire caravan past a jealously guarded station, and on another occasion he "talked" his employer out of jail.

The Desert Road to Turkestan, National Geographic, June, 1929.

-Dave

 

[Creeping Past]

But does the chap in the jodphurs read?

This iconoclastic post calls into question the very idea of appropriate adventure clothing.

I think 'Moses' has the right idea: just get on with it!

 

[David Conwill]

But does the chap in the jodphurs read?

This iconoclastic post calls into question the very idea of appropriate adventure clothing.

I think 'Moses' has the right idea: just get on with it!

I actually meant the fellow with the pipe. Based on what I've read on the website the bearded, pipe-smoking, jodhpurs-wearing, houseboy-having type is exactly the sort of fellow they're parodying/paying tribute.

"Moses" probably does have the right idea, but Lattimore certainly looks the part of dashing adventurer!

-Dave

 

[H.Johnson]

National Geographic has certainly gone downhill since it spawned a television channel and started calling itself 'NatGeo'!

 

[Maguire]

I picked up a new safari jacket on ebay. I don't exactly know where i'll wear it, but i'm pleased with it (for the price, 20 bucks etc)

If i ever decide to go on safari i suppose it will work. Otherwise there are too many connotations for it otherwise, unfortunately.

 

[MrBern]

I picked up a new safari jacket on ebay. I don't exactly know where i'll wear it, but i'm pleased with it (for the price, 20 bucks etc)

If i ever decide to go on safari i suppose it will work. Otherwise there are too many connotations for it otherwise, unfortunately.

Wow, that collar is HUGE. Is that modern or from the `70s?

 

[Dinerman]

Richard H. Stewart was my great great uncle. He was head photographer for the National Geographic, and worked for them from 1924 to 1966. Open up almost any old national geographic and you will see his name.
He died in 2004, but was sharp until just shy of the end.
I wish I could find some better photos of him (there are plenty by him), you'd get a kick out of them, I'm sure.

 

[Maguire]

indeed i noticed the tremendous collar

I think its probably from the 70s. it was after all, an ebay item. It says it was made in Austra by a company called Foxrun

 

[MrBern]

indeed i noticed the tremendous collar

I think its probably from the 70s. it was after all, an ebay item. It says it was made in Austra by a company called Foxrun

It reminds me of something from a `70s movie when they would go off to fight zombies or dinosaurs.
I hope you find the time to enjoy it in our urban jungle!!!!