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Sharp jacket TonyB. Love the fleck.
Perhaps someone can educate me on partially lined jacket.
I have had a few beauties like these over the years. I miss being able to fit into them now, sigh.
I always assumed they were for warmer climates, yes?
I drop into thrift stores at least a couple of times a week, as often as not leaving empty handed. It's gotten to where I can spot the only vintage jacket on a 30-foot rack with nothing but a sleeve and shoulder readily visible. From there I take a quick look at the lining (vintage jackets are rarely fully lined) and then the inside pocket, to see what clues might be lurking there. Union labels, and even tags showing the original owner's name and the date the garment was ready for him to pick up, are often in the inside pocket, which obviously makes dating the piece a heck of a lot easier.
So no, I don't think the jackets were left unlined with warmer climes in mind. I now have a fairly large assemblage of vintage suits and sports coats, and I don't think a one of them has a full lining. I'm nowhere near as well versed on this stuff as some of the guys here, but I do know there were various types of linings. (I've heard the terms "petal" and "skeleton" tossed about in reference to jacket linings.) The "most lined" of my old stuff (meaning early 1960s at the latest) leave just the backs unlined. Sleeves and fronts and shoulders may indeed be lined, but not the backs.
I enjoy thrift and junk shop scouring. Good thing, too, because, as I said earlier, I frequently come away empty handed, as just about everything to be found in such places is of too recent a vintage to be of much interest to me, or to anyone I may be thinking of passing it along to (I've turned into something of a scout for a vintage dealer).
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