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California Sportswear Co. (CSC) aka Californian (1930s-1950s) thread
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jeo
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Thanks to jchance for putting the work in on this instructive thread.
I am adding it the the Important Threads section at the top of Outerwear.
I am adding it the the Important Threads section at the top of Outerwear.
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Why do you say that? And all three of which ones? I think there are more than three jackets shown in that post.
He pointed this out in the Vintage Outerwear of the Past thread. I didn’t get it then but now I do, given that I have all of the designs in one place. It’s because of the sleeves.
The four in the earlier post were LA Sportogs variant, just like their labeled jacket below, with the diagonal sleeves:
Below is the actual CSC variant, with its straight button sleeves. He noted that “The CSC variants had a two button cuff, CSC collar instead of the more spread out LA Sportogs collar and fits longer.”
In addition,
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jeo
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Thought the first picture was the same jacket as the second and third, but I now see that there are four separate jackets here. All four of them were made by LA sport tog. The first two have the LA sport tog leather label. The other two do not have the details of the California sportswear version of this jacket.
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@jchance are you a robot?
Right, someone noted before that the ribbon HH / pony hide tag (top) next to 1940s MW “styled / made in California” was made by LA Sportogs, whereas the white square HH tag (middle) next to the same was made by CSC. The black square HH tag (bottom) next to the same also indicates CSC (look at the sleeve of the jacket where the tag came from, attached at the end).
LA Sportogs tag:
Commonly found CSC HH tag:
Also CSC HH tag:
Why do you think that? I can certainly summarize better than AI.
I actually thought @greenc was an bot, he came up with a new thread weekly, always starting some new discussion.
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tmitchell59
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The speed at which you create threads. Hard to keep up with!
I appreciate and support your efforts. You respond well to corrections. Accuracy is important.
You posted a couple of CSC jackets I had not seen and several I know quite well!
CSC deserves their own thread. Their history goes from 1930 into the 1970s. They only made leather outerwear and they were probably the largest maker in the World for some period of time.
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You did an excellent job. Keep on the nice work. Currently, I do not have a way to take some images of some Californians that are not posted. They are in cape skin, light tan goat and brown horsehide, suede and OD tone goat. If there is any interest, I will post them up when possible. I am still in the hunt for that nice scape from NY in tan cape skin. LOL. Probably my chances of finding such a piece on my size are
