Downsizing the collection of jackets and this is one I have decided to let go.
Bill Kelso "Hilts" jacket, size 46 in excellent/near new condition. For some reason I have wanted one of these since the Eastman version came out. I acquired this one and have had it about two years, but it is time...
US Authentic A-2, size 44.
I bought this hereon The Fedora Lounge last year. You can see the listing for it here: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/fs-us-authentic-russet-hh-a-2-44.108934/
Chest: 24"
Shoulder: 20"
Back 25"
Sleeve: 26"
The jacket fits far larger than a typical 44...
Yes, absolutely. As someone mentioned earlier there were the movies like Coming Home and the Deer Hunter, but by the time Rambo came out most had been back from Vietnam, were entering their 30s, and (trying) to reintegrate into society.
After Rambo came out, there were a ton of Vietnam related...
Yes, without question. My wife came of age during that period and while she lived in Queens, she actually went to high school at Brooklyn Tech. Consequently she spent a lot of time there with her friends.
I once asked her about it and she said it was about as accurate as you could get.
It...
This is an odd jacket. I don't know who made it since it is missing the tag, although there is a size 42 tag in the lower part of the liner. Several people have commented that it is an early Aero Flight, Mfg. jacket when AreoLeather was having jackets made overseas.
The jacket is extremely...
This is a catch and release jacket I purchased from Tibor a few weeks ago, for the sale price I paid for it. As much as it fills the hole in my closet for an Indiana Jones jacket I have wanted for probably 15 years, it is probably a size large in the shoulders and chest. It is a full 44.
You...
I used to collect a lot of stuff, magazines, leather jackets, motorcycles, US military boots, tools, literature.
In the last three or four years, I have stopped all of that, sold nearly all of it off (aside from the tools), and am acquiring no more. Less is more, I want a little as possible...
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Uh, no. At least not of anything I saw on the West Coast and Arizona.
...maybe in the rust belt or the large east coast cities, at least until the Rodney King riots.
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