"our friends" in New York

Always a tease I know! But here are some of my favourites from a vintage wax jacket collection we recently put together for a customer. They will soon be winging their way over the Ocean to "our friends" in New York. It would seem that the love affair we all have with these old wax Barbour and Belstaff jackets just will not die! (on either side of the Atlantic). Email for details of what we have in stock.
From top to bottom. Early 1950's belted Barbour walking jacket, no crown label, amazing patina. No crown refers to Barbour as a company before they received their 1st of 3 Royal appointments. Exceedingly hard to find 1950's Belstaff with chequer flag label. This was Belstaff's first wax cotton moto jacket. 1960's Belstaff trialmaster with Sammy Miller label. Beautifully aged 1950's no crown Barbour.

















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the problem with modern day packaging

Although much of the packaging from today's grocery shopping will still be around in 50+ years, it will not be through choice, and it is not going to look as cool as this....
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1940's flyers' jackets

I know, a sunny day in London and I am dreaming about my winter wardrobe already. Its just that sourcing cool spring/summer vintage is no way as much fun as digging up killer outerwear treasures for those cold winter months. So, much as I enjoyed that cold beer in the sun at Portobello today, I was thinking about sharing part of our ever growing antique flying jacket collection. Three of my favourites....

Jacket above is an early pattern US Army Airforce A2 by Spiewak & sons North Bergen, NJ. Original zip is an early example of a spring back pull manufactured by Crown. Jacket is beautifully aged with an amazing look to the leather....


Not sure about the origin of this one, I bought it with a collection of English WWII flying jackets from a collector who wasn't sure either. Unknown flying jacket, with amazing patina, interesting hand repairs and paneling, zip has been changed at some time and I will get around to putting something more fitting on this amazing piece. Probably too far gone to wear this one, but a beautiful jacket for display or design inspiration....

My personal favourite, type D1 US Army Airforce shearling. This gets my vote as it sums up the US military's "only the best will do" attitude when it came to uniform and field gear in WWII. These beautifully crafted shearlings were for the ground crew rather than the pilots. I love it that the mechanics were rocking these! I guess that is why they come up so rarely, they just would have got trashed by the day to day wear and tear from the men working in them. Amazing example with alot of life left in it....
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