Cracking bit of vintage and in great nick. Washed this properly and as a result it's as good as new. Sadly though it's a bit big.
I would like £30 for this. That's thirty pounds.
24" pit to pit 21.5" pit to cuff 29" neck to hem
Frostline Goretex
Brilliant jacket that wouldn't be going anywhere if it wasn't ever so snug. Proper goretex and handmade by the original wearer as Frostline was a company that made jackets and sold them to proper outdoorsy types in kit form. The measurements show it's not particularly customised, just a regular fitting size medium I'd say. For this I am looking for £50.
23" pit to pit 22" pit to cuff 31" neck to hem
One True Saxon Parka
Got off eBay last month but it's too big. Just after my monies back, Augustus. £50 should do the trick.
Standard size large for a lined winter jacket I'd say. It's ace this, just too roomy for me.
25" pit to pit (on the outside, slightly less on the inside I'd imagine) 21" pit to cuff 32" neck to hem
Trailwise Parka
Of all the stuff I'm shifting this is the one I've ummed and arred about the most. If the other stuff goes easily I may keep it. It's a top colour and from one of the brands that originated the 60/40 parka in the late 60s. The founders of the much-vaunted Sierra Designs actually met working at Trailwise before they set up SD.
I could put this in Bags of Flavor in Manchester and ask him to get me a approaching oner for it. I might yet do that, I dunno. Anyway, I'd take £70 if someone wants to take it off my hands and appreciate it as much as I do. Once again it's just that bit too roomy/long for me to be totally convinced I need to keep it.
23.5" pit to pit 22" pit to cuff 32" neck to hem
Another Frostline, 60/40
A proper 60/40 style this, lined and in the same colour as the other one further up. This isn't goretex but cotton.
Again, this was a kit form jacket that was lovingly put together by the person who originally bought it. Frostline was a company that was around the same time as REI, Sierra Designs and all the others and the original owner (now almost 80) still lives an outdoor lifestyle and according to one source "still has sewing machines on which he knocks up a tent now and again". Not sure what relevance this has to the jacket but it's a nice story eh?
I'd say "brick" sums it up fairly ok. not like the bricks behind it, more like new bricks, if you get me. Maybe ever so slightly more orange than that.
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