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  1. johnnyjohnny

    New Aero A-2 pics

    TwiLighT Zone... seems to fit you better than the dubow fits the guy guy in the ww2 pic say hi to rod serLing for me...
  2. johnnyjohnny

    when to wear your G-1...do you hear me!?!

    thread explained maybe it's just me, but i find fascinating the arcane rules and regulations that the organizations for whom the flight jacket is made and used by it's personnel would have such strictured and structured rules on how, when and where to wear these beloved pieces of u.s. avia...
  3. johnnyjohnny

    when to wear your G-1...do you hear me!?!

    the Army/Navy came up with some great jackets, the a-2 and g-1...however, iN the Army or Navy, you can only wear these when the Army or Navy permits you to...per the Army Service Uniform Wear Policy...DO YOU HEAR ME SON!?! The following are excepts from Navy and Marine Corps Uniform...
  4. johnnyjohnny

    GOiNG oVer to the DaRK SiDE...Schott

    PauL BunYon had it righT look here, the lumberjack model is a great piece of ... well, it's just a great piece... the battle against trees, like the battLe against faScism, never ends...it's always growing out there...i would be proud to wear a pLaid jacket that paid homage to the...
  5. johnnyjohnny

    'swashbuckling sky pirate' jacket

    GeT a HorSE... you better get a horse, a remington and a beat up 30-year-old ford pickup with gunracks with that jacket, thunderw21...i don't see sky pirate, something out of a movie with robert redford on the range definitely a great western jacket...i'd say you got it for about $350 under...
  7. johnnyjohnny

    'American Living' jacket

    WeLCOME to the DaRK SiDE... i posted in an earlier thread about leaving the miljacket search for authenticity, and actually buying a schott 184sm, as beautiful, albeit non-authentic, a mishmosh of flight jacket and a-2 styles as you can find...
  8. johnnyjohnny

    GOiNG oVer to the DaRK SiDE...Schott

    beTTer than 12-sTep thanks HD, i knew my friends here on the Lounge would understa.....wait...what was that you saiD?!!!
  9. johnnyjohnny

    50's Cagleco G-1

    hoW coooL is that! i love watches, have a watch website...one day i dug up my dad's old watch to see what it was, and found it was an eterna automatic made the year i was born...a watch on a par with omega...i love wearing it... i can only imagine finding something like my pop's g-1, and...
  10. johnnyjohnny

    GOiNG oVer to the DaRK SiDE...Schott

    ...184SM that is... that is (shudder) SCHoTT's do-everything, be-nothing-that-is-authentic, a-2/g-1/g-2...acquaint yourself if you can bear to see such bLasphemeee: http://www.schottnyc.com/bomber-jackets/a-2-naked-cowhide-leather-flight.htm i suppose some people matriculate uP once...
  11. johnnyjohnny

    U.S. Wings...fLying LoW, sadLy...

    being the rah rah guy of buying U.S., and liking uswings cuts and general craftsmanship, i was rather saddened by how my transaction to buy a g-1 milspec jacket there ended... coming off of having purchased a uswings a-2 milspec, very beautiful in cut and craftsmanship, except for the end seam...
  13. johnnyjohnny

    My New Luftwaffe jacket

    U.S. authentic? loox more like german authentic...very nice...i certainly wouldn't have thought to contact a company that doesn't offer a jacket type and persuade them to make it... i'd like to know how authentic is it compared to the criteria you became aware of in your research, and did...
  14. johnnyjohnny

    Anybody Order from Leather Coats Inc.?

    a-2...it's baaaaaaaCK... weLL, actually i do not have the a-2 no more...it was cut virtually to the same pattern as the uswings milspec a-2, but about one size larger per size (and uswings runs pretty big, even milspec...though the milspec does have a more trim cut)... i sent it back for a...
  15. johnnyjohnny

    Anybody Order from Leather Coats Inc.?

    eTc....... hi, i've written a couple of tirades on the Lounge here about people not realizing there were some good u.s. producers of legit mil jackets...both times i put a link to leathercoatsetc.com since i purchased a g-1 and an a-2 from them both were current milspec (the a2 was current...
  16. johnnyjohnny

    Selling my Aero Leather Jackets

    eNd gaMe very nice jackets...especially the black one...i'd be considering it except i ordered one of those from aero and am awaiting it...same size, except collar sides limited to 2 3/4", probably a bit smaller than your collar...and i ordered a one-piece back... but i'd drop up to four and a...
  17. johnnyjohnny

    Aero 'Veste de Rallye' just ordered

    i was AERO-siZed well king Lear, i too ordered from Aero recently and drove myself craZeee second guessing my sizing...i drove not only their u.s. rep mark noyes nuts, but their factory people...luckily they didn't give up on me, but did tell me enough to realize i should trust them and not...
  19. johnnyjohnny

    Imported "JUNK"

    One for the 'GiBBeR' yes, gibson and barnes...and i'm sure a few others out there...don't mean to forget anyone as for g and b, i didn't buy one from them but while considering spent a lot of time talking with their salespeople and their head leather person...just amazing people...and to be...
  20. johnnyjohnny

    Imported "JUNK"

    aRe you AMERiCANS or are yOu MiCE!!!? uHHH, sorry to disabuse everyone of the notion that U.S. made is either inferior or too expensive, but i've mentioned on here before that excelled makes the current G-1 supplied to the navy for purchase by their personnel, and they make an a-2 to usgovt...
  21. johnnyjohnny

    WouLD YoU alter a CLASSiC Leather Jacket?

    ...aNd the wiNNeR is ALTERiNG (NoTTTTTT) gotta thank everyone for their input...all vaLid points of view... in the end i've decided not to alter my size 50 factory vanson mercury... at first i just thought it was a bit too boxy and even altering wouldn't change my point of view... then...
  22. johnnyjohnny

    WouLD YoU alter a CLASSiC Leather Jacket?

    i hear the druMs...Do iT...Do iT... this forum seems for it...had a warning on vintageleatherjacket.org that once someone gets into the jacket, something will end up not being right...always interesting the different takes on things... as for how much it costs...i would just have the side seam...
  23. johnnyjohnny

    WouLD YoU alter a CLASSiC Leather Jacket?

    exit poLLs coming in... thanks for some feedback...guess i'm sort of a purist...or in other words, anal... i know i had an inexpensive anj-3 (g-2) where i added snaps to the collar, liking that a-2 look...but somehow after doing that i just didn't want to wear it anymore...so i don't know...

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