The Fedora Lounge Guide to Blanket Mackinaws

[ingineer]

I like it. I've been toying around with buying some nice wool, or a couple of nice mackinaw coats, and having an anorak/smock/cagoule custom made. I have it designed from A-Z in my mind. Not sure how comfortable I would be re-purposing perfectly good garments to do so, though.

You might take a look
http://gfredasbell.com/gfa_wool_clothing.php
Richard

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

You might take a look
http://gfredasbell.com/gfa_wool_clothing.php
Richard

Thank you very much. I bet I could have googled that forty different ways and never found them.

I'm amazed by some of these vendors and their lack of photos and angles. I have no idea how any of those garments look, function, or any of the details. In this case, this vendor may have chosen the worst angles I've ever seen. There's no photo gallery (that I'm seeing). No close-ups. No basic photos of the garments alone. Why would I buy something from someone when I have no idea what I'm actually buying? So truly strange of an approach.

 

[Dinerman]

1935 - Sears


1935 - Sears


1937 - Sears


1937 - Sears

 

[Dinerman]

 

[Sloan1874]

Phwoar, that's a retina-scorcher if ever I saw one!

 

[Dinerman]

 

[Dinerman]

Carss Mackinaw

 

[Dinerman]

There was a big surge in popularity in these (although briefly) around 1948.

 

[Dinerman]

 

[Dinerman]

Another 1930s one

 

[Dinerman]

 

[Dinerman]

Maine Guide by Congress. I've had two others of this same model- That collar and point placement make it really distinctive.

 

[Stearmen]

Maine Guide by Congress. I've had two others of this same model- That collar and point placement make it really distinctive.

I know from experience that belts are more a hindrance then help on a jacket, but it sure does add a certain bit of class to the old Mackinaw!

 

[1mach1]

The Maine Guide is absolutely beautiful, Dinerman!

 

[Dinerman]

1947 Lakeland Jackinac

 

[Dinerman]

Early's blankets with a Milium (resinated metal spray finish fabric insulated) lining.

 

[Dinerman]

Mid 1930s Hudson's Bay. Possibly made by Maine Guide (not too many companies made this style, and all the other examples other than the Maine Guide ones I've seen were store labeled rather than mfg. labeled)

 

[Dinerman]

Photo courtesy FlatFootFloey, of the rare style above, advertised in Germany

 

[Dinerman]

Another of that half zip, half button style, in a crazy moose-meets-deco blanket fabric

 

[Dinerman]

Another interesting one. Mid 1930s Carter blanket mackinaw with zipper hood.