Bush Jackets

Jokerswild7 · Nov 28, 2005

Whoops,
wheres the icon for slapping ones forehead in disbelief.....
You all may now continue with the previously scheduled programing...

Glenn

Matt Deckard · Nov 28, 2005

Mojave... love the pith... I myself go fot the sport coat and aussie slouch hat when really in the field. Next Meet we need to have an adventurers dinner one night and a black tie affair the other.

Biltmore Bob · Nov 28, 2005

Bush Jacket

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BellyTank · Nov 28, 2005

...now try seaching for 'Bush Hat' and see what you get...

B
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Matt Deckard · Nov 29, 2005

I miss staying on topic... This is a good thread on bush jackets... I want to see more of the cool safari styles.

Mycroft · Nov 29, 2005

Late comer here, I am currently going on a safari in December to Kenya and the surrounding area, any suggrestion on the Bush Jacket I should get, I am not sure what type because of the weather differences? Orivis is good, from what I have heard and used (fishing stuff only though). Matt, am I sabatoging your thread or do you want me to move it?

Hemingway Jones · Nov 29, 2005

Mojave,
You know I love your gear. You put it together so well. You have that Golden Age Adventurer look down.
On the Orvis jacket, I rather wish it had a belt. I think that the belts break up the 'tunic of khaki' look of a longer jacket. I think I might throw on an ammo belt or some sort of gun belt to break it up a bit.
It looks great. Keep them coming!

Hemingway Jones · Nov 29, 2005

The icon! Hemingway on his last African safari.

MrBern · Nov 29, 2005

I love it , Mojave Jack!
I bet the indy gear folks would look great at a Bush Picnic.

Personally, I love the various incarnations of the costumes used for bush adventurers in TheLostWorld.

Incidentally, have you ever checked out the `42 airborne jump jkt?
http://www.101airborneww2.com/uniforms.html

MAgnum Photogs looked very dapper in them
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C/HTM/CDOCZ_MAG.ASPX?&E=29YL53UR3S2&DT=ALB&PIC=1&O=0S

Biltmore Bob · Nov 29, 2005

Bush hat

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Flitcraft · Nov 29, 2005

Mycroft said:
Late comer here, I am currently going on a safari in December to Kenya and the surrounding area, any suggrestion on the Bush Jacket I should get, I am not sure what type because of the weather differences? Orivis is good, from what I have heard and used (fishing stuff only though). Matt, am I sabatoging your thread or do you want me to move it?

Mycroft:
That's great! I'm green with envy!

Anyone have any experience with this bush jacket?:
http://www.whatpriceglory.com/pic/bushjacket.jpg

Price seems right- but anyone know anything about sizing and durability?
Your help is much appreciated!

MrBern · Nov 29, 2005

I was eyeing that one myself at the beginning of the summer.
I have mixed feelings about reenactor products.
Sometimes its gold & sometimes its garbage made in pakistan.
Didnt soemone here get the matching pants on ebay a few months ago?

BellyTank · Nov 29, 2005

MrBern said:
Sometimes its gold & sometimes its garbage made in pakistan.
ago?

But ALWAYS what the US vendor ordered from the Pakistani garbage supplier.
Is it actually worse than domestic US made garbage?

Nothing wrong with clothing from Pakistan. It's more the tight-fisted vendors trying to scrimp so many pennies. You get what you ask/pay for.

B
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Mojave Jack · Nov 29, 2005

Flitcraft said:
Anyone have any experience with this bush jacket?:
http://www.whatpriceglory.com/pic/bushjacket.jpg

I've got one of Jerry's aetex shirts, and the durability is definately there. There are some awkward things about it, though, such as the cuffs. For some reason the buttons on the cuffs are rotated to far and the buttons are almost inside my wrist when I wear the shirt. Other details, though, are superb, and I actually wear that shirt as a regular garment. One word of warning, though, they will shrink if ever machine washed or dried. The weight is not as light as I expected it to be, but the weave is realtively open, and the ventilation is good. Mr Bern is dead on, though, sometimes I love Jerry's stuff, sometimes not so much. I can't say, however, that I would get one of these for daily wear. I think you're better off spending a few extra bucks on a really good bush jacket that you will be able to wear a long time.

Hemingway Jones said:
On the Orvis jacket, I rather wish it had a belt. I think that the belts break up the 'tunic of khaki' look of a longer jacket. I think I might throw on an ammo belt or some sort of gun belt to break it up a bit.

You're absolutely right, Hem. The belt does complete the look. I wear bush jackets so much, though, that I got really tired of doing the belt up all the time. I found the same thing on my trench coat. I like your idea of an ammo belt, or even just a plain leather belt. That would make it more versatile.

Matt Deckard said:
Mojave... love the pith... I myself go fot the sport coat and aussie slouch hat when really in the field. Next Meet we need to have an adventurers dinner one night and a black tie affair the other.

Matt, I agree completely! Thanks for the compliment, too. I think we need to go to the UK, though, and rent a room in one of those late 19th/early 20th century gentlemen's clubs with dark wood paneling, overstuffed leather furniture, at least one wall lined with books from floor to ceiling, a few mounts on the other walls, and a huge fireplace. Ah, brandy and cigars after dinner...heaven! There must be someplace like that in the LA area.

Matt Deckard · Nov 29, 2005

Mojave Jack Matt said:
must[/I] be someplace like that in the LA area.

There was a place like that in the LA area... though it was designed with virtual reality gamers in mind and had a few planet maps on the wall, pics of game hunters with Dinosaur heads and a few miscelenious animals mounted on the walls along with a library in the corner and stuffed lather chairs. Very Earnest Hemingway meets battle betond the stars. They closed down a few years back as no new VR games were being produced.

Mojave Jack · Nov 30, 2005

Matt Deckard said:
There was a place like that in the LA area... though it was designed with virtual reality gamers in mind and had a few planet maps on the wall, pics of game hunters with Dinosaur heads and a few miscelenious animals mounted on the walls along with a library in the corner and stuffed lather chairs. Very Earnest Hemingway meets battle betond the stars. They closed down a few years back as no new VR games were being produced.

Story of my life. A day late, and a dollar short. *sigh*

Personally, I love the various incarnations of the costumes used for bush adventurers in TheLostWorld.

Incidentally, have you ever checked out the `42 airborne jump jkt?
http://www.101airborneww2.com/uniforms.html

Bernard, I never really thought about that, but the jump jacket really is pretty much a bush jacket, isn't it?! Yours, BTW, is awesome.

As for the Lost World, are you referring to the Bob Hoskins version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story (or a number of others, actually) or the TV series? I have to admit, I watch the TV series every morning at breakfast, well, the first fifteen minutes before I have to leave for work, anyway. That's one of my guilty pleasures. Yes, I know it's implausible, poor acting, but whatever; I like it! (Just don't ever ask Hemingway Jones what he thought of The Rocketeer!) I'd love a shoulder rig like Roxton's. I don't think he had that until the second or third season though, so I guess RIck O'Connell still has dibs on being the first.

Slate Shannon · Nov 30, 2005

My W&G bush jacket, with a belt that I added and a bandoleer. I was just foolin' around to see what kind of look I could come up with.

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Nick Charles · Nov 30, 2005

looks pretty good, are those WWII leggins or Rough Rider?

Slate Shannon · Nov 30, 2005

Nick Charles said:
looks pretty good, are those WWII leggins or Rough Rider?

Thanks. They are WWII.

Matt Deckard · Nov 30, 2005

Mycroft said:
Late comer here, I am currently going on a safari in December to Kenya and the surrounding area, any suggrestion on the Bush Jacket I should get, I am not sure what type because of the weather differences? Orivis is good, from what I have heard and used (fishing stuff only though). Matt, am I sabatoging your thread or do you want me to move it?

No sabataging... it's about bush jackets.

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