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  1. Doctor Damage

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Ralph is copying the US airborne jacket from WWII, which is a different animal altogether, although obviously the pockets from those were adopted by a wide variety of nations in the post-war period. Later Canadian combat gear evolved almost in isolation and is unique in many ways. The slanted...
  2. Doctor Damage

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    The other way around. That jacket is from the 1960s or 1970s. The model after had larger hip pockets and a corduroy collar, as I recall (or maybe that was the previous model).
  3. Doctor Damage

    Coldest Weather I've been in

    Here's some random traffic camera photos from around the GTA during this afternoon's rush hour which is experiencing a big snowstorm. Highway 401 is 16 lanes across in places. This incidentally is why you keep your gas tank full in winter, kids. Good times!!
  4. Doctor Damage

    Leather Police Jackets

    Okay, here we go (nylon jackets, but same sort of thing). West Berlin police various time periods, all post-war obviously. It should be noted that era of jacket didn't have side slits, so the holster is hung on the outside from the pocket. And on an unrelated note here's some new police...
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    Leather Police Jackets

    We're talking about the clips under the flap on the lower pocket on the German police jacket? No, I'm pretty sure those clips are to hang a holster with a pistol. I don't have any photos handy, but I'm sure I've seen this done. German police uniforms post-war were very "civilian" in flavour and...
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    FS knits for MA-1, dark green, new

    For sale one set of new, unused replacement knits for an MA-1 jacket. This includes the waistband, collar, and sleeve knits. Colour is dark olive green (the camera flash makes them look brighter in the photo below). USD$25.00 shipping included to continental USA or Canada. Interested parties...
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    Withnail's Coat

    Update on this: http://www.withnailbooks.com/2016/06/whatever-happened-to-withnails-coat.html
  9. Doctor Damage

    Kriegsmarine Colani / Peacoat dating

    The lack of pocket flaps doesn't indicate old or new and was common enough in the old days. I think you should fire up google and find some military forums which focus on vintage military stuff; there's a lot of them around and some will have detailed info.
  10. Doctor Damage

    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    Military surplus stores with lots of solid stuff available for low prices were once very common so it wouldn't surprise me!
  11. Doctor Damage

    Coldest Weather I've been in

    Holy carp, that's just mean & nastly. I didn't realize Chi-Town got that cold, although why wouldn't it? I bet the lake makes it a damp cold which feels twice as cold as dry cold.
  13. Doctor Damage

    Withnail's Coat

    Some photos from Galer's FB page showing the coat available for sale.
  14. Doctor Damage

    Withnail's Coat

    This could be an interesting article... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2752/136270405778051293?journalCode=rfft20
  15. Doctor Damage

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Here we go...
  16. Doctor Damage

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Richard Branson (wanker) in some sort of jacket, looks like a blend of a D-pocket motorcycle jacket and a shearling jacket.
  17. Doctor Damage

    Overcoat Mystery

    It's possible, in fact probably likely, that whatever has been written up in books isn't fully accurate. Remember, this was decades ago and a time when even the military didn't keep super-detailed records of this stuff (look at the issues around official records, or rather the lack of, regarding...
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    The GREAT BRITISH DUFFEL COAT thread

    You can spend your time how you like, but I suspect it's nothing more than (literally) an alternative spelling based on different languages using the same word. Although the Royal Navy popularized the coats by adopting them as over-overcoats for wear in winter, they were around long before that...
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    Coldest Weather I've been in

    Oh yeah, you have no idea how awful snowy roads get when they lay on the sand and salt. They turn brown. Then your car turns brown, and your shoes. And the roads are partially clear in some spots, still snowy in others, and you have to continually adjust to the road conditions, which often...
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    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    The liner for this will be far too heavy for Mexico. The shell is basically a very heavy cotton. Also, they have nothing to do with M65 coats and are descended from British stuff, although I suppose one could argue that virtually all post-war Western field jackets were inspired by the US M43...
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    Withnail's Coat

    Apparently there was an auction of some kind in 2000 of Withnail stuff, including the coat which was bought by Chris Evans for £5,000: https://www.richard-e-grant.com/archives/withnail-for-waterford-auction-results/
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    Coldest Weather I've been in

    From the wikipedia page on Project Excelsior: The small stabilizer parachute deployed successfully and Kittinger fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds, setting a long-standing world record for the longest free-fall. During the descent, Kittinger experienced temperatures as low as −94 °F (−70 °C)...

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