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  1. Doctor Damage

    Schott 50's one star from ebay, could use advices on this problem

    Yeah, you don't want to wear anything that might associate you, correctly or incorrectly, with a bunch of criminals. It's an awesome jacket, though.
  2. Doctor Damage

    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    This is what I would do, too. As for fit, Bogart was a diminutive man with a huge head, so it's going to be impossible for a man living in the modern age to get the same fit, unless you happen to be tiny like him. I've got several trench coats, none of which resemble the Casablanca coat in...
  3. Doctor Damage

    Show Us Your OVERCOATS

    ^ good looking car coats! (a much misunderstood term)
  4. Doctor Damage

    Show Us Your OVERCOATS

    ^ tremendous find, Fabio! very lucky of you it's especially nice to see the generous skirts on that coat
  5. Doctor Damage

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Thanks. That makes sense. The structure of the jacket would be weird otherwise.
  7. Doctor Damage

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    That red cloth you posted looks like the basket weave in cotton the interweb is throwing up. Anyways, I used the term mistakenly in my post.
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    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Does the hood stay inside the collar or can it drop down the back of the coat between the shell and the liner? I only ask because in some photos the hood is clearly rolled up inside the collar and in others the collar is so thin the hood either was removed or shoved down the back. I have an...
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    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    I should have said I was going to check a good reference book I have and that the labels I used were preliminary... so time for some clarifications to what I posted earlier!! I checked this afternoon and what I called 'basket weave' is almost certainly poplin, although the last mil-spec...
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    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Here's some photos of four different types of weaves on military jackets. In order (zoomed in) they look like a twill, a canvas, a basket weave, and almost a shantung. Photos suggest that all of the military jackets in camo came in the basket weave cloth, irrespective of age.
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    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    The weave of the cloth used in the shell changed periodically, or by manufacturer or contract. Some cloth was a twill, other cloth was a non-twill (yeah, I'll dig through my books to find the proper name for what I've seen), and some appeared to be almost a rip-stop. The properties of each...
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    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    While listening to a podcast I'm idly trawling around on e-bay and saw this tag for an M-65 coat liner -- check out that manufacturer!!
  14. Doctor Damage

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Did you ever use the built-in hood?
  15. Doctor Damage

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Photos show that the US Army wore these jackets with the collar folded down so it's funny to me that civilians always wear the collars up!
  16. Doctor Damage

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Travolta wears a tan M-65 in the first scene in the 1981 film "Blow Out" and a dark blue one for the last half of the film.
  17. Doctor Damage

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    USAF catching satellite data drops (5 min duration)... amazing stuff!
  19. Doctor Damage

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    ^ good catch Thor! that's a superb quality photo
  20. Doctor Damage

    Show Us Your OVERCOATS

    interesting overcoat on the chauffer (the blonde is skiier Lindsey Vonn, btw)
  21. Doctor Damage

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    This afternoon I heard a plane and thought "that's not a Cesna", so I ran outside just in time to see Canadian Warplane Heritage's Lancaster fly right over the house, around 1,500 feet. LOUD!!
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    Show Us Your OVERCOATS

    I suspect that's pretty standard for most movies and TV shows these days. That's why costumes look like something but just a little bit off. Or they buy OTR stuff and heavily modify it. But I suspect custom made. After all, it just has to look good on screen and hold together for a few weeks...
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    Show Us Your OVERCOATS

    Three nice overcoats: Assistant U.S. Attornies for the Southern District of New York John Sevarese, Michael Chertoff, and Gilmore Childers pose outside courthouse after winning Commission trial November 19, 1986.

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