This jacket used to belong to me (bought from John Chapman).
The label is after market (in lieu of a McGregor label and a replacement for a Bronco label).
I've posted this jacket before on VLJF and FL.
' As I said at the start, John Chapman makes brilliant jackets, but the sycophancy of VLJ members towards one of their moderators has certainly not been a negative in his rise to his current high regard.'
...and substitute Aero for GW...
What's seen as respect on one forum is 'sycophancy'...
What size are you? I have an admittedly small circle of friends who collect jackets (but they - collectors/jackets - come in all sizes) and I can ask around...
Understand all of that Sloan, but that wasn't what stirred me to respond to a thread in which I otherwise have no jacket interest, it was the 'I post on the VLJF and if I buy it therefore it must be high end' nonsense. The GW jackets are indeed really nice - from the perspectives of materials...
Well, if that's how you want to view it I'm not going to try to change your mind as your opinion is valid, albeit one that I don't share.
Buyers will have personal preferences certainly, but if you seriously have a contender for a producer of military jacket repros that are superior to those...
You'll find plenty of posters from the VLJF reading here and being equally nonplussed by the stereotyping/bashing that keeps coming up and this 'stitch counting' obsession that seems to abound more on this forum than there...
Plenty of collectors of repros there too, but many from the high end...
Snap...
Also in a 46 (it fits true to size), so this will be on to the Buy/Sell Board...
I've decided to bite the bullet and ask a Japanese friend to source an RM 37J1B Zielinski in a 44.
Just took delivery of this one - the Willis & Geiger copy of the 37J1B (given the fictitious number NA-1, navy A-1?), which I had hoped would be a useful summer jacket when it gets too warm for the capeskin A-1.
I'll preface the comments by saying that it's not in the league of the much...
This type of jacket (Aero included) doesn't appeal to me in any case, but the suggestion has merit. A cheaper Himel Brothers Heron-type/LVC Merino jacket would really appeal in a good cape.
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