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A pictorial review of my new (vintage) Navy peacoat…(Yes, that tree is also in it!)
Jan I never expressed my admiration for your great taste (besides the fact that everything will look good on you! That's unfair!! ;) ) so I apologize now: great style!! I wish my peacoat look half that good on me!! Ciao! :)- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #14
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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How about this for vintage leather for your wife?
In all honesty I'd stay away from the first one. I vote for something in the lines of the one posted by Mojo. (You'll thank me later... ;) )- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #8
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Italian flight jackets
Mussolini's policy was to achieve “visibility” even at the cost of real effectiveness; that's why he sent submarines in huge numbers to the Atlantic instead of concentrating to the vital (for Italy) mediterranean routes etc. During Battle of Britain, italians flew BR20 bombers and C42...- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #20
- Forum: WWII
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Opinions gentlemen please
That's not naive and absolutely right. Fascism actually banned foreign words from common usage (with alternate success...), let alone official use. So I find really unlikely that during wartime they used "Italy", unless they began pressing that on copper studs before and then they simply passed...- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #5
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Opinions gentlemen please
As far as I know after having read many italian sites on Regia Aeronautica, italian pilots were never issued leather flight jackets before or during WWII. In the '30s and '40s they were issued a cloth, mouton-collared jacket with removable liner; that came in various yet similar models (I'm...- Italian-wiseguy
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Italian flight jackets
Some other ground crew for you! the photo is marked as "specialisti (ground crew) during a pause, 194?" northern Africa, guard duty :)- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #15
- Forum: WWII
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Chinese Model-59 flight jackets
Thank you again, Lapa! I like also the new model, which seems more streamlined while keeping relation with the older one. The new collar seems more practical, too. The waistband now has an internal elastic instead of a wool knit? It looks similar to the current leather flight jackets of french...- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #12
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Chinese Model-59 flight jackets
Thank you!! Do you have also photos of the new model 02 flight jacket? I'm very curious! Ciao!! :)- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #10
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Italian flight jackets
Finally some other pilots: a (private purchase?) leather flight jacket: and two guys sporting their new "german style" haircut: :)- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #13
- Forum: WWII
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Italian flight jackets
Some other just to show the many different variations and improvisations "on the field":- Italian-wiseguy
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- Forum: WWII
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Italian flight jackets
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- Post #11
- Forum: WWII
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Italian flight jackets
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- Post #10
- Forum: WWII
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Italian flight jackets
I've been asked by PM :) about italian ground crews, so I began to do my better to find about their uniforms. As in every thing italian, turns out it's a big casino (mess, to use an euphemism) :) It looks that ground crews (specialisti) were issued a "combination" or in colloquial italian a...- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #9
- Forum: WWII
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Italian flight jackets
It looks so indeed... I'm just wondering why. Probably it had something to do with the preference of italian pilots for open cockpits: as they were used to old antiquated biplanes fighters (CR 32 and 42), I've read that when they finally got new planes they somehow regret the lack of visual in...- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #8
- Forum: WWII
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Italian flight jackets
Another one: cloth, knit cuffs, slash (zippered) hand warmers pockets... definitely pre-B15 :)- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #6
- Forum: WWII
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Chinese Model-59 flight jackets
Thank you Lapa! I always had a curiosity for lesser known flight jackets... by the way, I'm pretty sure to have seen both the models (with and without fur collars) in photographs of Albanian pilots... probably issued by China during the alliance between the two States, or copied by the albanians...- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #5
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What did you buy for yourself this Christmas?
A vintage "eskimo" or "cagnaro"... well I have to explain this to non-italians: it was a kind of parka with a veeeery heavy liner, mid way between a N3 and a raincoat... used by italian dockers, truck drivers etc. (then obviously adopted by hipsters, counterculture and the like). I'd say, never...- Italian-wiseguy
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Thank you
My most sincere best wishes, friend!! Hope to see you posting again soon, and in person very soon :)- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #26
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Obama's A2 ?
I don't mean to sound heretical, but I'm liking enough the current issue A2; seems a nice, classical styled and reliable jacket, close enough to WWII style to be called and A2, while being also more forgiving on "modern" body types... probably not on the same level of her WWII progenitor, but I...- Italian-wiseguy
- Post #47
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
