New overcoat ...

[Baron Kurtz]

... part of the money from my Stratoliner sale went on a German overcoat (also got me vearly 40s cords and a vintage Montecristi). Apparently made for a guy posted in Germany after WWII. So, mid-late 40s but in, i think, a very 30s style - lots of pre war Hitler pics in this type jacket. Images likely to disappear:

Has arrived at home, and my father says it fits him "grand". Should fit me grand also ... we're around the same size. He's inherited a couple of my suits ...

bk

 

[Mr_Misanthropy]

lol At first I thought you were saying your father said that the coat fit Hitler "grand". I was thinking.. hmm... I say it looks a bit baggy on him. Then you talked about him inheriting suits and such, and being the same size, and I figured it out. Talk about a brain fart.

I think it's a very cool overcoat, it reminds me of something more Russian than German. Any chance I can see a closeup of the buckle and bottons one of these days?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Any chance I can see a closeup of the buckle and bottons one of these days?

I'll post pics when i see the jacket ... not until December at the earliest. It's remaining in Britain until i return there (hopefully at the end of this year).

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

lol At first I thought you were saying your father said that the coat fit Hitler "grand". I was thinking.. hmm... I say it looks a bit baggy on him. Then you talked about him inheriting suits and such, and being the same size, and I figured it out. Talk about a brain fart

Shhhhhh, no-one knows he's still alive!

bk

 

["Doc" Devereux]

I'll post pics when i see the jacket ... not until December at the earliest. It's remaining in Britain until i return there (hopefully at the end of this year).

bk

You do realise we might just have to throw a shindig for that, don't you?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

The Dr. Kurtz welcome home party ...

bk

 

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Capt. Hastings was wearing a belted overcoat like that in a Poirot episode.

 

["Doc" Devereux]

The Dr. Kurtz welcome home party ...

bk

Hey Doctor Kurtz! No time for love!

(There's drinking to be done!!!)

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Interesting yoke at the back. (Not that I like Western style suits.)

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Similar yoke to that on my German leather of the same period ... Quite a popular motif in German period leather, i believe.

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

These are the same kinds of vintage overcoats that Germany ships by the ton to Chile. They are EXTREMELY heavy. Yours is too, huh?

Some of these overcoats have very nice-looking labels.

We Yanks call that a "western yoke", but it was popular on German coats and overcoats for decades. You even find it sometimes on those olive green "loden" coats that Germans (and the French, for some reason) never get tired of.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Yep, dad tells me it's super heavy.

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

And the shoulders are probably very square and padded. Lots of the horsehide coats and overcoats have these same features.