My latest Vintage Leather-

[BellyTank]

'30s maybe '40s-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/4a_1_b.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/f5_1_b.jpg

This is my English Patient, Schindler's List, Better than Indy's jacket thing-
$29.

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[Flitcraft]

Holy Smokes, Bruddah!
You must have been wearing a mask and packin' some heat when you picked up that steal! :cheers1:

[BellyTank]

Like it?
Naah- no heat-packin, it came from Germany, just down the road from here...
...or pick something new for around £400/$700-

European vintage leather is cheap, plentiful and stylish too.

I like the detailing- the scalloping/front, back yokes and the double breasted style.
It's not in the closet yet, there's a chance it may be too big... :cry:

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[PADDY]

Me love it long time!!! Mein Baron, that is one steal of a jacket, well done sport!!

[scotrace]

Another JacketGasm. I need to brush up my german.

[BellyTank]

Here's a '30s Russet coloured Goatskin jacket I picked up a few weeks back.
I have a camera now!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/DSCN0237.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/DSCN0238.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/DSCN0239.jpg

This is a Swedish one- I bought it in Denmark for around $30-ish in a junk shop and it fits! It has a little 'patina' but the lining is spot on. It's nice to find a European jacket in Goatskin, it lasts really well, is supple and very strong.


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[PADDY]

Welcome back BT, wherever you have wandered. Jacket is a looker! shame it's not my size, haha, or I'd have it off your back. very very nice. :cheers1: wear in good health.

[zeus36]

Like it?
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It's not in the closet yet, there's a chance it may be too big... :cry:

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Hmmm, I can pull off a size 44 if it dosen't fit you.

I have just about the same jacket, but it is a full length WWII German coat.

I've been looking for a nice 3/4, if you need to re-sell it ;)

[Daniel Riser]

I am kicking myself for not having my buddy pick up something like that for me when he lived in Germany for school... I recently retired my only vintage leather, and it's killing me because now... even my FS Indy jacket is too baggy for my taste. I like the thirties cut. I'm spoiled :cry:

[BellyTank]

That DB yoked jacket fits me for a winter jacket- over a heavy vintage roll-neck British Navy sweater. I feel an ensemble forming...

Sorry...

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[DanielJones]

Wowzer!! Quite the find Chief! Looks like it's in excelent condition.

Cheers!

Dan

[BellyTank]

Latest but not lately-

'30s German.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/Germ_Le1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/Germ_Le3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/Germ_Le2.jpg

..and a vest from the same-ish vintage, for good measure...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/Germ_Vest.jpg

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[Baggers]

That's some great looking leather, BT, especially the first one. I may have to start culling my "herd" a bit this summer so I can add one like it!

Cheers!

[zeus36]

'30s maybe '40s-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/4a_1_b.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/zaphobeeblebrox/f5_1_b.jpg

This is my English Patient, Schindler's List, Better than Indy's jacket thing-
$29.

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I just noticed that is the same jacket worn by Doctor Who on the new series.

lots of folks lookin' for one of those now!

[Marc Chevalier]

I've got one that's identical to it, but somewhat beaten-up. Found it in Chile, which received it from Germany ...

[scotrace]

I've got one that's identical to it, but somewhat beaten-up. Found it in Chile, which received it from Germany ...

Can we then make assumptions regarding the wartime affiliations of its original owner?

I wish that sucker didn't fitcha, BT...

[Veronica Parra]

Can we then make assumptions regarding the wartime affiliations of its original owner?

Nope, because Chile has been mass-importing used clothing from Germany, Canada and the U.S.A. since 1992. Bales of old clothes arrive weekly, and their contents are distributed to used clothing stores all over the country. For some strange reason, lots of pre-WWII overcoats, leather jackets, and (orthodox Jewish?) frock coats are included in the bales from Germany. I've always wondered if they belonged to -- dare I say it? -- the victims of concentration camps. After all, where did the clothing of six million people go?

[Burma Shave]

...a genuinely disturbing thought!

"I've always wondered if they belonged to -- dare I say it? -- the victims of concentration camps. After all, where did the clothing of six million people go?"

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

After all, where did the clothing of six million people go?

They were partly destroyed right away and partly sent back to Germany for second hand use and further processing. A real industry in fact.

But they certainly weren't hidden for fifty or sixty years, and then sold to Chile.

[Marc Chevalier]

I believe you, but ... what was war-devastated Germany (or the rest of Europe, for that matter) going to do with hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of black frock coats once worn by orthodox Jewish men? Think about it. Apparently, they didn't tear all the coats up for scrap.

Incidentally, Germany exports its used clothing to Africa and former Soviet Union satellite states, as well as to Chile. I'd say that about 5% of what arrives in Chile is from the pre-World War II era (1930s and early '40s), though some of the frock coats, chesterfield overcoats, waistcoats, and cinch-back trousers date all the way back to the 1890s. How would you explain this plethora of prewar German clothing?

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[Marc Chevalier]

There's more to this story.

Back in the early 1980s, a vintage clothing business ("American Rag Cie.") here in California started selling large quantities of 1930s menswear from Germany: horsehide coats, collarless dress shirts, dress shirts with long-point collars, black waistcoats with lapels, black cinch-back trousers, black "chesterfield" overcoats, and black frock coats. In other words, the same types of used German clothing that get sent to Chile.

I have no doubt that American Rag Cie. was importing bales of the stuff directly from Germany. (Was it East or West Germany? I have no idea.) Once again, why was (and is) so much of it still available?


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[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

I have no doubt that American Rag Cie. was importing bales of the stuff directly from Germany. (Was it East or West Germany? I have no idea.) Once again, why was (and is) so much of it still available?

There are regular collections of old clothes in Germany. In fact, that has been criticised because it looks like "give your old stuff to the needy" while it really is a commercial thing. I thought most of it was sold to African countries, but maybe the "good" stuff finds its way to vintage clothing shops in first-world countries?

[Marc Chevalier]

I love Chile, and I sincerely thank you for considering it a first-world country. (I do too!) That said, the rest of the globe, led by the IMF and the World Bank, would call Chile a "developing country".

Only now are young Chileans getting into vintage clothing as a fashion statement, and their tastes are confined to vintage '70s disco wear. I never saw anyone (besides me) actually buying the prewar German stuff at the used clothing stores there.


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[BellyTank]

How would you explain this plethora of prewar German clothing?

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Ask Jack Palance..?

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[Veronica Parra]

In which cemetery?

[BellyTank]

Is he scattered..?
Or do you have a preference?

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[Mojave Jack]

BT, those are some great jackets!

You should start your own resale business. I, for one, am a 42 long... ;)