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  1. Italian-wiseguy

    Your opinion of Hugo Boss jackets?

    I'm not an expert on uniforms, but I'm quite sure to have read that this is actually a legend: while Hugo Boss' firm, as well as many others, received a commission to make uniforms, he himself never designed them. I'll be waiting for more informed opinions anyway :) Ciao!
  2. Italian-wiseguy

    Obama's A2 ?

    Italian prime minister is not a comparable post for sure: and actually I don't remember Berlusconi wearing a flight jacket, but he is the kind of man from which everything has to expected, so... (he mostly wears a Russian Navy parka! a gift from Putin...) otoh, I remember the Minister of...
  3. Italian-wiseguy

    ID vtg. leather jacket

    Italian highway police-Carabinieri- army tankers leather jacket, used till the '60s; ciao!
  4. Italian-wiseguy

    Pics of my new modded Aero NYPD, plus an amazing miracle to share...

    Navin!! :) I like your jacket, but most of all I like to hear about your heart healing! Your lovely family is the best proof of the great heart you have, Navin, so I'm sure it can even do miracles... as others said, you well deserved them! Hey, and don't forget to come visit me!! :)
  5. Italian-wiseguy

    Why the huge disparity between Soviet and German losses on the Eastern front?

    Thanks for your correction Paisano! :) English is not my first language so I welcome every suggestion (I had to study it at school, but also latin and classical greek, so some confusion is unavoidable ;) ). I'm pleased to hear that you have served your Country! Ciao!
  7. Italian-wiseguy

    Why the huge disparity between Soviet and German losses on the Eastern front?

    Well, not quite few: the Italian Army in Russia was some 230.000 people. I met some veterans form the russian front, and by their experience it was by far the worst and more terrible of the fronts. Poorly equipped for fighting and for the climate, often despised and denied support by Germans...
  8. Italian-wiseguy

    Fedora hats are rarely sexy - or so does she think...

    I mean, if we are talking about looking "sexy" (or "dressy", "mature", "smart", "young"... whatever you like) it's not really what you wear, but HOW you wear it. Simple as that. She quite approaches the point when she describes how some guy wearing his hat at an angle looks better than other...
  9. Italian-wiseguy

    Fedora hats are rarely sexy - or so does she think...

    That thing puzzled me too, as well as her stating about how she couldn't tell if some model is "latino" or "caucasian"... I mean 1- who cares? wasn't the argument "does he look sexy in a hat"? But obviously she has made her rater simplistic and stupid statement about white men not looking sexy...
  10. Italian-wiseguy

    Facial Hair or Goatee in wwII?

    Since in the above link people are talking also about non-US / non-UK armies, I'd add that in the Italian Army goatees are quite traditional in the Alpini corps, and I think they were allowed in WWII just as they were before and after; Italo Balbo, Marshal of the Air Force and former Alpino...
  11. Italian-wiseguy

    Aero NYPD jacket mod revealed... feedback requested

    Navin!! You kind of an italian actor lookalike! :) My sincere best wishes for your health, friend! And I really love your renovated NYPD jacket... which is now a New Amsterdam PD jacket? ;) Ciao and take care!! PS I never told you how much I like your lovely family!!
  13. Italian-wiseguy

    Show us your fencing mask !!!!!!!!!

    Well when I said my only training in fencing was my old handbook I wasn't right! I forgot my experience with Kendo! (to my excuse, actually it was a short period, then I preferred to switch to taijiquan...) don't have a photo of the mask I used, though, nor of the armour for that matter...
  14. Italian-wiseguy

    Italian Duel From 1922, Lots Of Hats!

    Those french guys were duelling with fedoras on! As for the italians, you probably know better than me Aurelio Greco's fame... well I have somewhere in my house an old handbook about fencing, published in 1900 something (1903?) of some maestro Masiello, which is the only training in fencing I...
  15. Italian-wiseguy

    Italian flight jackets

    You're pretty right, Spitfire :) Actually as Italy was still a kind of poor country, at least compared with other european States, italian government should have stayed away from stupid colonial wars, and even more stupid alliances with other dictatorships... nonetheless, they sent soldiers in...
  16. Italian-wiseguy

    Italian flight jackets

    Some time ago, in a far far away thread :) someone asked what kind of jackets did italian pilots wore in WWII. So I come up now (better late than never) with these pictures, hoping to be useful. The jacket was called "Marus" or "Giusti", the name of the main two firms committed to produce...
  17. Italian-wiseguy

    MA1: What is it?

    When I wore an MA1 I was a boy and completely unaware of their association with "skins"; and I guess nobody ever took me for one of those! ;) Nowadays I see MA1s only on soccer hooligans or stuff; or MA1's cheap knock-offs supplied by small firms (with embroidered logos) to their workers. For...
  19. Italian-wiseguy

    MA1: What is it?

    As far as I know, Israeli military seems to have switched recently from their "dubon" parka to a MA1 derivative (with epaulettes) as an issued garment for all the troops (I think they already kept using MA1s for pilots, and one particular version with fake mouton collar, "a la B15", for army...
  20. Italian-wiseguy

    My redone Aero jacket just arrived.

    The first version, with the "wing" collar, reminded me of this: (Ettore Muti, aviator and notorious fascist :( with a private purchase, and probably made to order jacket; italian air force issued only cloth jackets with removable liners and faux mouton collars, with elastized knitted cuffs...
  21. Italian-wiseguy

    Italian Military Jacket

    I couldn't find one of those jackets in these days unluckily, but I did my homework and searched the italian side of the Internet: I found someone selling the jacket (it's definitely the same) as an italian Polizia Stradale (Highway Police, more or less) jacket, for 50s euro :) These coats used...
  22. Italian-wiseguy

    Italian Military Jacket

    I'm not sure about the particulars, so take this as a simple suggestion, but for sure italian Police used leather double-breasted jackets just like this one till the '60s and probably '70s too. I'm too young to remember having seen one in person on a policeman, but I've seen many of them in old...
  23. Italian-wiseguy

    Old leather

    It looks like the leather has aged very well, I can see only small creases that give some "personality" to the jacket (I like the jacket, by the way). Your son is going to enjoy it for a long time, I guess :) By the way, I'm envious of US laws: here you had to wait being 14 to use a motorcycle...

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