WYWT?

**Unkraut** · (This post was last modified: 12-13-2016, 02:29 PM by Unkraut.)

You are planning to do Teddy Bear overcoats? Are you mad? So expensive to make and the few enthusiasts out there already got one. Marc and the few New Yorkers. Huh

PS: You are looking great in the pic of course. Vintage and repro are two different worlds/markets though. Just saying.

**Rudie** · 12-13-2016, 02:31 PM

Agreed. Wait till you have Ralph Lauren status, then you can make things just for the fun of it without fearing to break your neck if they don't sell.

***SJC*** · 12-13-2016, 04:38 PM

Here is the thing, yes its mad, but 100mts of Angora is 25 coats.
I reckon I can sell 25 coats.

***SJC*** · 12-13-2016, 04:39 PM

Mein Gott! Rudie you are looking good!

***SJC*** · 12-13-2016, 04:41 PM

And it may not even work, as I don't know what the costs are, if they can weave angora, etc. My main objective it to stop Hanson from altering an original 20's coat beyond hope.

**Edward** · 12-14-2016, 10:44 AM

I'd love one, but a lot would depend on price. It's sort of like a grizzly for growed-ups that gotta wear a suit, right?

**Nik** · 12-18-2016, 05:28 PM

1943 (US) Greatcoat

I just realized while wearing them that this coat and the orphaned suit trousers of the same period were my first vintage garments.

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willyto · (This post was last modified: 12-18-2016, 09:49 PM by willyto.)

Excuse the crappy picture from the phone. Got a new three piece suit from Old Town on Ebay. A discontinued jacket and vest in Harris Tweed. It's super comfortable and warm, it is a size bigger than my usual but I think it doesn't look that bad. Best thing is that I paid for all three parts way less than the price of a new jacket alone.

Chasseur · (This post was last modified: 12-19-2016, 03:06 AM by Chasseur.)

Mostly British, mostly vintage morning dress rig for a Dicken's Christmas tea.

**Sean Longden** · 12-19-2016, 08:51 AM

Patrick, I guess you aren't in Hawaii at the moment.

Chasseur · 12-19-2016, 01:08 PM

Nope we moved to Pennsylvania a few months ago!

**Sean Longden** · 12-19-2016, 03:00 PM

So that's an excuse to buy a whole new winter wardrobe!

Chasseur · 12-19-2016, 03:44 PM

Sad thing is that I already had most of the winter wardrobe while in Hawaii...

**Rudie** · 12-19-2016, 04:38 PM

That's why you had to move, right?

**Edward** · 12-19-2016, 05:17 PM

First day of my leave today (so, naturally, I'm in the staff room marking...). Wearing William Lennon B9s in block, denim dungarees, TU 30s-style sweatshirt, black cotton bandana from Kreepsville, and a Failsworth Harris Tweed cap (via Aero). Outerwear today is my Silverman's own-brand N3B parka. Interesting thing about this look is that it blends in so well with contemporary norms, despite being a fairly authentic look (if you excuse the fact that the N3B probably wouldn't have been available to a civilian readily back in the day...). Most folks in the UK think of them as a 70s thing, as that is, I believe, when they were first fashionable here. Bit like a lot of folks think of the MA1 (first issued in the early 50s) as an eighties thing!

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