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    How to unshrink wool

    I’m seeing a lot of articles recommending the hair conditioner/water soak + stretch method. Has anyone here successfully unshrunk their wool garments? If so, how? Thanks!
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    Best practice for hanging vintage garments?

    So for jackets it’s quite clear- use a nice wide hanger to avoid any stretching/warping. Shirts: are thin hangers fine? If not, any good rule of thumb for width? I can’t imagine they need something as wide as a jacket-width hanger but then a wire hanger might be problematic (?) (yes yes, insert...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Interesting all around. Thanks!
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    With all due respect, military peacoats have been issued and cut pretty much exactly as I want: https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Navy-peacoat-768x512.jpg I’m quite close. But as you see there it’s not some sized down civilian fantasy, just perhaps less common than...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    The coat is exactly what I want when closed. Unfortunately when open it flares out wide at the bottom like a wide dress. It’s the issue I have with a lot of these. I’m hoping that with a short this will be somewhat alleviated, plus I’d like to lose an inch at the sleeve anyway and I’m not crazy...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Hah, I think you gave me an unintentional gift. This was where I was able to look up the reference… https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/have-it-dicked.1750717/ It is me, so I suppose I am schlonged?
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Thanks so much all for the help and words of encouragement! Here for reference is one of the 32Rs on me. Approximate s2s 17”, p2p 20”. You’ll see how it approximates this: https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Navy-peacoat-768x512.jpg I think a 34S or 32S will be the...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Yeah, I looked up the contract number after posting it and it appears to be a 90s-era one. Still will probably get it as all the measurements check out. Thanks!
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    I had them scour the inner coat for other labels and they found this. Now I’m 90% swayed in the other direction!
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    I’m pretty certain this is a fake, right?
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Well think about it: we’re not wearing these for handling the rigging on a ship. We’re wearing them as (ideally) flattering male clothing. Look at the military’s Class As from WWII. The purpose was the same- to present the man in a sharp, tight silhouette and flatter his form as much as...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    For what it’s worth, they fit just like my 37R and 38R World War II tunics (Army and Navy). That’s why this sizing has been so confounding- they don’t conform to any other jacket or overcoat sizes I’ve ever seen, except for maybe Army Mackinaws. I swim in those as well in sizes that would...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    I’ve almost certainly seen them available! Take a look on eBay. There certainly are short sizes I just wasn’t sure in this particular case if 32 had them.
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Hey all, been a bit since I chimed in here. I had temporarily given up on finding an authentic peacoat with the fit I wanted since going down to the smallest size I could find (34) was still yielding way too large coats for me. I was essentially after a 17” shoulder to shoulder, 20” pit to pit...
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    Wool and hot water- several questions!

    I posted in various threads now about some wool trousers that just shrunk, but coming back and reading this, I really do wonder if the culprit was the machine vs hand washing. I used delicate cycle and cold water, as I couldn’t do bucket at the time, and I wonder if that caused the shrinkage (1”...
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    Basic questions about laundering old clothes

    (Repeated on my various laundry threads.) Well, that was revealing. I don’t know how you guys manage to wash wool and avoid what just happened to me: I tried a single pair of wool trousers and they lost about an inch on inseam and waist :\. Granted I used a machine on gentle, cold water...
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    Basic questions about laundering old clothes

    So I keep going back and forth and back and forth on my cleaning path for the vintage items I’ve been collecting (both militaria and non-). Before I get into it, to clarify this is not for “I just bought something and need to deep clean it (ala summer whites)”, this is for, say, shirts or pants...
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    Basic questions about laundering old clothes

    So in a previous thread we got into the weeds about what best to do and I think I have my good, simple approach. I’m just going to either bucket wash or gentlest cycle wash my garments with Woolite and then do the towel dry method. A) Which Woolite specifically would you recommend? As is...
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    What is the point of trousers’ second button?

    I’ve seen this all over with my vintage trousers (40s-50s) and I’ve no clue what the point is. There’ll be the standard button at the top of the fly and then a zipper, but between A and B there’ll be a second button, usually mated with a small flap, and virtually always further into the left...
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    Basic questions about laundering old clothes

    I was thinking Woolite originally based on what I’ve read earlier. Any specific type or just the standard blue bottle stuff?

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