Edward
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I sort of moved away from the "Civilianised A2" type of jakcet when I got into TFL and 'accuracy', though in recent years I've taken a liking to them again, given how they are often much closer to what civilians were actually wearing during that immediate post WW2 period with the popularity of the "flyboys as 'knights of the sky' heroes" trope. LIke the Indy design derived from them, there is a wonderful practicality to the style.
It's definitely relative. My mother hads a friend many years ago before I was born who moved to the Carribean; when she used to visit Northern Ireland in the height of Summe there, she'd sit and shiver in 20 celisius while those who lived there suffered and sweated. I've spoken beofre abouytp hotos of one of my primary school teachers when she did a year on exchange, teaching in Haiwaii - middle of their "Winter", the local schoolkids sitting in the classroom in their winter coats because she couldn't cope with the heat - really funny. Did the same myself in India a few years ago - February, 22 celsius in Dehli, locals in Winter coats and me in a panama and linen suit. It's all entirely down to what you're used to or get used to, I guess. A friend of mine in his RAF days did a tour of the Falklands - out of a British Winter to Winter down there, three months later came back to a UK "Winter" which he spent walking aroundin a t-shirt... I remember being in NYC with him in 04, a few years later, and he was still able to take the wost of NYC Winter in a Schott Perfecto and a light shirt!
It's definitely relative. My mother hads a friend many years ago before I was born who moved to the Carribean; when she used to visit Northern Ireland in the height of Summe there, she'd sit and shiver in 20 celisius while those who lived there suffered and sweated. I've spoken beofre abouytp hotos of one of my primary school teachers when she did a year on exchange, teaching in Haiwaii - middle of their "Winter", the local schoolkids sitting in the classroom in their winter coats because she couldn't cope with the heat - really funny. Did the same myself in India a few years ago - February, 22 celsius in Dehli, locals in Winter coats and me in a panama and linen suit. It's all entirely down to what you're used to or get used to, I guess. A friend of mine in his RAF days did a tour of the Falklands - out of a British Winter to Winter down there, three months later came back to a UK "Winter" which he spent walking aroundin a t-shirt... I remember being in NYC with him in 04, a few years later, and he was still able to take the wost of NYC Winter in a Schott Perfecto and a light shirt!
