OK can someone actually define what a 'picker' is, are they some sort of middleman between the junkyard and the antique shop?
Over here most hunting is done by antique dealers themselves for their shops, or people like me who actually sell the stuff to the public at markets, and we pretty much...
He throws them out? In this country you can pay up to $50 for a beater in thrift shops due to the re-appearance of hats in rap videos, don't they have television round there?
I think he's pulling your leg.....
I was in my local K-Mart a couple of months ago, they had exact copies of that jacket in vinyl with polyester lining....$40, is that the trickle down effect? ;)
Funnily enough, Mike Carlton's column in Saturday's SMH refers to the horrors of sitting around school in summer in Crusader cloth uniforms...and spare a thought for the Anzacs, I once worked as an extra on a Gallipoli movie shot on the Maroubra sandhills, and we wore WOOLLEN undershirts woollen...
We could be pedantic and say it's British cloth anyway, because 'Irish' Thornproof would probably have been made in the North as I think that was where the mills were, but I could be wrong! Someone will know here, if anywhere!
No it was lighter than Thornproof, (which I thought came from Ireland), but still very sweat-inducing, and consequently prickly to sit in a classroom with no air-con in summer, the trousers weren't lined either, I think it had to reach 90F before we were allowed to loosen our ties....
Ha! Crusader cloth, I had a pair of grey school pants made of that stuff, lots of fun to wear in the Queensland summer. along with your woollen tie and top button done right up at all times.....
I wasn't specifically referring to half-belts although I have a 40's one for sale, I just meant any vintage leather jacket, i find it hard to sell any at all in the last 3 years or so, it took me nearly 12 months, which is at least 40 markets, to get rid of a 70's Stagg Brando in weathered...
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-leather-jacket-/120827912015?pt=AU_VintageFashion&hash=item1c21e79f4f#ht_500wt_1202
this bloke has to be 'havin a laff', it's a nice jacket, but he could knock a nought off and still be lucky to sell it in today's market....
I've had better ones than that...
yes the iphone camera does wander through the colours a bit, it's a dark grey, probably the top pic is closest...
as to age, it may well have been made in the 50's but it must have sat on the shelf for a while because our currency didn't go to the $ until 1966.
I know the shop it came from well...
This makes driving hundreds of miles through the boondocks worthwhile...$15, never worn still with price tag of $8.75 inside so mid 60's by my reckoning...
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Definitely not apocryphal, there were forts on the coast all over the place as well, I used to play in one as a kid that the old bloke across the road was stationed in, neighbourhood gossip had it that his legendary alcoholic intake was a consequence of endless nights on guard fortified with rum...
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