Vintage Outerwear: Threads of the Past

[jeo]

40s Aviator
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This Aviator has more or less scratched my final collectors itch. It was sitting on yahoo auctions for a long time and I was always deterred by the high price tag. Ultimately, after waiting a few months and looking around for alternatives I really couldn't find any jackets in similar condition being sold for better prices and so I pulled the trigger.

I'm very glad that I did. It's always risky buying something you can't return but the jacket turned out fantastic condition wise and fit wise. It's everything I was looking for in an aviator.

What a beauty, congrats!

 

[tmitchell59]

40s Aviator
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This Aviator has more or less scratched my final collectors itch. It was sitting on yahoo auctions for a long time and I was always deterred by the high price tag. Ultimately, after waiting a few months and looking around for alternatives I really couldn't find any jackets in similar condition being sold for better prices and so I pulled the trigger.

I'm very glad that I did. It's always risky buying something you can't return but the jacket turned out fantastic condition wise and fit wise. It's everything I was looking for in an aviator.

Nice find.

Find the date code on the bottom edge of the sunrise zipper stop. A letter and number will give you a date. Just post it and we can tell you the date.

 

[hieu]

Nice find.

Find the date code on the bottom edge of the sunrise zipper stop. A letter and number will give you a date.

The code is 2A so 1942? Based off the ring pull chest zipper this and the cuff design this feels very 40s to me.

 

[tmitchell59]

A=January 2=1942

Near the end for the Sunrise Box. The quilted lining is unusual, just don't see it, an early application. Yes it is a 40s looking jacket from the 40s. No idea of the maker, does look like horsehide from that time.

 

[Nacho]

40s Aviator
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This Aviator has more or less scratched my final collectors itch. It was sitting on yahoo auctions for a long time and I was always deterred by the high price tag. Ultimately, after waiting a few months and looking around for alternatives I really couldn't find any jackets in similar condition being sold for better prices and so I pulled the trigger.

I'm very glad that I did. It's always risky buying something you can't return but the jacket turned out fantastic condition wise and fit wise. It's everything I was looking for in an aviator.

Love the back yoke and the long center zipper on this thing. One hell of a jacket. You score big time here, Huey!

 

[semolina_pilchard]

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40s Aviator
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This Aviator has more or less scratched my final collectors itch. It was sitting on yahoo auctions for a long time and I was always deterred by the high price tag. Ultimately, after waiting a few months and looking around for alternatives I really couldn't find any jackets in similar condition being sold for better prices and so I pulled the trigger.

I'm very glad that I did. It's always risky buying something you can't return but the jacket turned out fantastic condition wise and fit wise. It's everything I was looking for in an aviator.

I had been watching this as well for a while. Just couldn’t decide if it would fit me.

It looks way better than it did in the listing photos - congratulations! It’s a beauty.

 

[hieu]

A=January 2=1942

Near the end for the Sunrise Box. The quilted lining is unusual, just don't see it, an early application. Yes it is a 40s looking jacket from the 40s. No idea of the maker, does look like horsehide from that time.

The missing make tag is very small if that’s an indication of anything. This jacket was definitely made towards the very end of the sunrise zipper era.

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I had been watching this as well for a while. Just couldn’t decide if it would fit me.

It looks way better than it did in the listing photos - congratulations! It’s a beauty.

Thanks! Although the jacket is an inch bigger in most dimensions than what the seller measured I think it still would’ve been small on you Andrew. Plus I definitely like the pocket configuration on yours more.

Love the back yoke and the long center zipper on this thing. One hell of a jacket. You score big time here, Huey!

Thank you brother ) you know how long I’ve been looking for one of these haha

 

[tmitchell59]

I'm always looking for advertising and often disappointed. More difficult to find than most jackets.

CSC sign Bought on ebay from a large collection. Don't know the location

The Cresco sign is heavy, ebay

 

[jeo]

Indian brochure from the 50’s

 

[jeo]

Falcon Zipper by Talon

 

[jeo]

Another Talon box

 

[Leigh H]

1930s Aviator Jacket. Same model Kurt Russell wore in “Escape from New York”

via Manuel Cozar
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvZOvFQooBe/?img_index=1

 

[tmitchell59]

Seen any of these around? MW 1926.27

 

[jauregui]

1930s Aviator Jacket. Same model Kurt Russell wore in “Escape from New York”

via Manuel Cozar
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvZOvFQooBe/?img_index=1


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Beautiful Californian.

 

[tmitchell59]

1930s Aviator Jacket. Same model Kurt Russell wore in “Escape from New York”

via Manuel Cozar
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvZOvFQooBe/?img_index=1


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That is quite a find. Bill Kelso reproduced this jacket with a Monarch label. They called the model, The Duke. I recall they made their reproduction of a Monarch original.

This is a Duke in the rare and expensive Victory Horsehide.

A Capeskin model. This looks more like the movie jacket, capeskin.

 

[Canuck Panda]

Some pics of the vintage Perfecto with Ribbon label,

No Star pointy epaulette

One Star round epaulette

One Star pointy epaulette

And one with an even older label, allegedly, One Star round epaulettes

Finally a No belt No epaulette no coin pocket Beck Schott:

Four of a kind. Where's the Royal Flush?

 

[Blackadder]

This is one of the coolest jacket I have ever seen.

 

[jeo]

This is one of the coolest jacket I have ever seen.
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Same front design (just with buttons) back design and buckles as @Mysteryo s jacket and the JC Penney labeled jacket in the Ralphs Pugh thread. This was probably a Penney’s

 

[Canuck Panda]

Here is another unknown button aviator jacket. Buttons makes a totally different look on these aviator / sports jackets:

 

[jeo]

Some more button front 30’s aviator style jackets