Is 65 too late for this forum?

[dr greg]

Found this good as gold L-2B, dated Sept 1965 yesterday, and it's X-large, the cuffs etc are very nice, Conmar zips etc.I remember skinheads used to wear them in the 80's but they seem to have no worth these days, considering the M-65 came out at the same time, it must have been a landmark year in military fashion!

 

[Peacoat]

Excellent.

That was probably the contract date of my first issued flight jacket. How is the size; has it shrunk like so many of them do when washed instead of dry cleaned?

 

[dr.velociraptor]

I owned one of those with a pair of Docs and a pair of braces. I was a skinhead but we weren't racist, more into skateboarding and the punk scene, heck one of my friends was black and another Jewish so we would've made a pretty poor true skinhead crew.

 

[dr greg]

Excellent.

That was probably the contract date of my first issued flight jacket. How is the size; has it shrunk like so many of them do when washed instead of dry cleaned?

No it's far too big for me and I'm a 42