All 6 Irvins.
Some vintage, a couple a brand new.
Different colour furs.
Different types of pockets and some without pockets at all.
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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?
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All 6 Irvins.
Some vintage, a couple a brand new.
Different colour furs.
Different types of pockets and some without pockets at all.
That's a pretty glorious sight, thanks.
yellowfever
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Seconded! The leather trench is perhaps under appreciated here, maybe it’s the dodgy historical links attributed to some of them (sadly encouraged by certain eBay sellers)? But a long leather coat is a great practical piece of winter wear (depending where you live), it will see off showers better than wool coats and with the right lining is properly warm... plus you get some good exercise if you walk around with the inevitable weight of all that leather/lining...
I’ve got two currently, my vintage Elvo dispatch rider coat and a very nice shorter/lighter seal brown horsehide Pegasus trench. And I still miss my old wool lined black leather vanson Luftwaffe in the old completion hide. That was a true beast of a jacket that I wore every winter for 10 years until it went missing/was stolen when I sent it to Aero for a re-line during the dying days of William Lauder’s management (before he got jailed). I (eventually) got some financial recompense from the owner Ken Calder, but the jacket was irreplaceable and I still miss it... (breaking in a vanson Luftwaffe in the old competition weight hide is not for the feint of heart...). Lots of good memories with it and it is still the jacket I got the most compliments for, it drew a lot of (mostly positive) attention so not just the weight/stiff leather that was not for the feint of heart!
yellowfever
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Now that’s commitment! Not only some very nice jackets there, but some useful material to refute my girlfriends occasional suggestions that I’ve taken my leather jacket obsession too far
hondurasdave47
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The King of the Irvins!
Benny Holiday
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Snow is sometimes yellow !! due to Sahara dust
I saw yellow snow once . . . but it had nothing to do with the Sahara or dust!
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This is an exceptional-looking jacket!Today here is another rare/uncommon LW jacket, the Nightrider J-23.
This jacket is unique, they only made one (i asked Stu and he told me they made less than 5 of the Green peacoat i posted yesterday). Apparently it has no historical inspiration, Buco never did a "Nightrider" like Trojan did, this was purely imagined by the previous owner who ordered it.
It reached me pretty much unworn, no signs of wear whatsoever, it was a new jacket for me.
Size 44, techincally one size too big for me, but it fits well with a thick winter jumper.
Floor pics when new:
Today, after wearing the jacket maybe 20 hours total:
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Darn, I'm in Canada with freezing winter and I don't even have one, something is wrong with me
I saw yellow snow once . . . but it had nothing to do with the Sahara or dust!
Somewhere a Frank Zappa song is playing...
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Super sweet! That's a great collection! Congratulations! Perfect winter wear, wish we get a little bit of snow (maybe a weeks worth) so I could get to own one lol
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I think I’ve received a dead stock maybe 50s swedish horsehide jacket, it has crown insignia and is by Skinnarland; it came from a military surplus but he didn’t push any history on me. It just looked a great jacket! And the length was my main reason, my Irvin doesn’t keep my legs warm and the wool lining on this does, factor it with heavy horsehide and it’s very very warm.
I’ll drop some pictures in here incase your interested my man. The Luftwaffe jacket story is very sad but unfortunately I can believe it was lifted.
These run a bit big and only have 3 sizes I think (1,2,3) but it leaves space for layers as intended. Take care!
I’ll drop some pictures in here incase your interested my man. The Luftwaffe jacket story is very sad but unfortunately I can believe it was lifted.
These run a bit big and only have 3 sizes I think (1,2,3) but it leaves space for layers as intended. Take care!
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No you don’t. I’m not even half way through what looks like three weeks sub freezing and many sub zero days. If it’s warmer in your refrigerator than it is outside...the anger takes hold.
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I’ve got the IH 19oz LOD die tomorrow. I love Bravestar and IH. Once you hit that heavyweight....nothing else even seems wearable.
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Thanks! It does fit me extremely well I think. I wish the leather was a bit lighter in shade- more like a standard seal brown rather than being this dark espresso brown, but aside from the leather, it's great.
@Carlos840 Either you're just built right, or that pattern is stellar (or both) because the jacket hardly even looks big on you at all.
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Oh boy when you put it that way I guess it really is not for the faint hearted. That's crazy how cold that might be, not to mention the effort to shovel your way out of the snow and the short hours of daylight. Lots of respect to the people who get a real winter.
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Please do drops some pics, I for one would be interested...
Yeah was gutted to lose that Luftwaffe jacket, waited 6 months on the reline over the summer before I found out from Aero that it was missing and then I spent a freezing cold winter without a winter jacket before I finally got some financial compensation from them. I put that towards the Pegasus trench order which I got in time for the following winter. It is a great jacket too, but I still miss the Vanson.
It was especially galling to lose it in such circumstances after 10 years never letting it out of my sight or putting it in coat rooms for fear it would be stolen...it’s out there somewhere and I do keep an eye out for size 38 second hand Vanson Luftwaffe coats on eBay etc in case it ever gets passed on, probably sold by Lauder for a song to some unsuspecting person... I’d happily buy it back in a heartbeat if I could ever find it again. Ah well sorry for the moan, but it was cathartic! TFL is probably one of the few places were my loss can be appreciated/empathised with!
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I feel soft for having "complained" about 4 days of post cyclonic rain with a top of 22C...Vanson ike today for a coffee venture with the Mrs over to the Indian Ocean. "Breezy" from the sou/west but this Vanson is still overkill today.
It was just some effort to continue the breakin.
As said before this is a "winter" jacket here in Perth Western Australia.
We have to be back at 30C by Saturday.
Still on the mandated run of compulsory mask wearing whilst outdoors.
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