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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
Packers fan, myself. But the Saints are my spare team. So...I’m watching ACC basketball now. AF- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,669
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
In the airport again...this time heading to New Orleans. Got an old horse hide jacket and an Akubra with me. It’s Monday so hopefully beans and rice tonight. AF- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,665
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Men rings - How to choose? What do you wear?
Before I retired, I wore two rings. My grandfather’s Masonic ring and my class ring. Now I wear no ties, no rings...and no watch. AF- Atticus Finch
- Post #108
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Coldest Weather I've been in
Photo on the left taken at 04:00 on January 7, 2018. Photo on the right, taken three days later, at 14:00 on January 10, 2018. Same location. Same thermometer. Eastern North Carolina weather. Don’t like it? Wait a minute, it’ll change. AF- Atticus Finch
- Post #562
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
Makes sense! Thank you. BTW...I wore it this evening on my walk. I don’t know what kind of insulation is used in these jackets, but...for their weight and size...they are definitely the warmest military jackets I’ve ever owned. Older Air Force “N” jackets are probably this warm, but they are...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,573
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
I like stencils on deck jackets. They tell me a little about the jacket’s history. I found this inside of the one that arrived today. My guess is the jacket was part of the ship’s gear on the USS Princeton. Does OD mean Officer of the Day? Operations Division? I have no clue. Nor do I...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,569
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
My new “current issue” USN deck jacket arrived today. I wore one of these for years until it outgrew me. Then I saw Thor’s posts about the one he wears on the ferry, and I realized how much I missed mine. So, I found a replacement...in a smaller size...and hit the BIN option. I wish I’d had...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,565
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
Thank you! I found that pie safe in a forgotten old shack in the woods. The shack had been long ago abandoned on a tract of land I hunted every fall. Over the years, it became more and more dilapidated until the roof finally collapsed one winter during a snowstorm. I hated to see pie safe...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,562
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
Not really enough to bother me. The other option is to wear a long sleeve T or a mock turtle neck under my wool shirts, but that tends to be a little too bulky in the arms if I wear a jacket. I like to wear layers in cold weather. It’s a trick my Wisconsin family taught me. But I try to wear...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,549
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
Thanks! It’s easily the thickest wool shirt I own. More like a jacket, truly. AF- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,544
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
Good Gawd, Almighty! The sun is out. The wind has calmed. The temperature is above freezing. And the heat pump has stopped running...at least for a few minutes. I’m shedding layers like a springtime blue crab. Down to a vintage Woolrich shirt over a cotton t-shirt. The hat is my old...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,542
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
We were going stir crazy in the house, so Jackie and I four-wheeled down to the Yacht Club to check out the situation. Every boat on all three docks was completely ice-bound, the river being frozen over from bank to bank. And here, the Trent river is a quarter mile wide. Our club has been on...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,538
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
I like Wisconsin weather...in Wisconsin. Not so much in North Carolina. We dropped below zero last night. Too cold for old heat pumps...and too cold for old Rebels. But there’s a silver lining. I get to wear vintage jackets that, otherwise, seldom leave the closet. Like this late 1952 (I...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,526
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Coldest Weather I've been in
I took this photo at 04:00 today. Not terribly remarkable if I was living in Copenhagen, Saint Paul, Munich or even Ashville. But this is very unusual for coastal North Carolina. AF- Atticus Finch
- Post #548
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Coldest Weather I've been in
This morning dawned with nearly the coldest weather I’ve seen in my sixty-two years of living in Eastern North Carolina. It was 2 F, when I arose. The absolute coldest I ever experienced...here...was in 1989, when the Air Station at Camp Lejeune recorded a temperature of zero. It was probably...- Atticus Finch
- Post #541
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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is mine fake m 65?
I don’t hold myself out as an expert on field jackets, but I do know a bit about military specification tags. I agree with both gentlemen, above. So-sew was a military contractor during the Vietnam War era. They had contracts to make the M-65, M-51 (there was a 1968, M-51 in Aggressor Green)...- Atticus Finch
- Post #5
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
During my life, I’ve spent a fair amount of money buying vintage coats and jackets. It’s a sickness, I tell you. But the two jackets that have absolutely sustained me during this brutal...almost unprecedented...cold snap are neither vintage or expensive. On the left, a late-seventies...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,509
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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The 80s, myth and reality?
I’m very late to this thread. Sorry. But I read the original post and I think I understand the question. I was in my late twenties and early thirties during that decade...and from my perspective, those were some very good years. Yes...the music wasn’t great and the major social movements of...- Atticus Finch
- Post #246
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
Had a little ”snowacane” blow through eastern North Carolina last night. The wind howled like a banshee and five or six inches fell in just a few hours. But it’s sunny and in the high ‘twenties this morning. Wearing my ATF N-1 over a vintage Pendleton wool shirt. My deck jackets seem to be...- Atticus Finch
- Post #7,485
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Coldest Weather I've been in
Milwaukee, a week ago. Air temp, -3. Wind chill, -15. Miserable enough for...gloves. AF- Atticus Finch
- Post #519
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
