Good Wear Leather Coat Company: Sale Hudson Garment Co. B-15A Flying Jacket

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Hudson Garment Co. B-15A Flying Jacket
Price: $450.00 (new condition) — note shipping costs below
Fit: this jacket has a comfortable fit in the correct size
Outer shell: 8oz. olive cotton twill, sourced in the USA
Lining: Alpaca/wool blend with percentage of synthetic from Japan
Lining trim: dark olive cotton-backed rayon
Mouton: vintage mid-brown mouton
Buttons: vintage Line 30 olive Army buttons
Leather trim: Italian russet horsehide
Pocket fabric: 8oz. natural cotton twill
Snaps: vintage United-Carr Line 24
Vox snaps: vintage United-Carr Baby Lift-The-Dot
Knits: light olive wool
Thread: olive cotton
Zipper: reproduction M-45 Conmar with vintage Conmar slider
Size: 44

This is a test jacket, in new condition. We have orders for B-15A jackets, and hadn't made one since 2017. After sourcing new fabrics, we've done this test before making a customer jacket, and it's got a great outer shell of olive 8oz. twill. This cotton has water resistant treatment. The lining is a blend of Alpaca and wool, with a small amount of synthetic, and it has very little, if any, itchiness. The jacket is quite warm.

Just as our original Hudson Garment Co. jacket has, we used cotton twill for the pocket bags. Many B-15 and B-15A originals were made with natural colored corduroy, but our original just had twill. The mouton is vintage, and has the correct mid-brown color and fur length. In our photos, the rayon trim in the lining looks rather dark, but it's a muted olive shade, and matches much better than the photos show.

Note the brown-tape Conmar zipper. There were made shades of tape used on B-15A originals, from this brown to tan and olive, with variations in between. We just got these Conmars, and we used this brown tape, but we also have a pale olive and olive shade. These zippers are an exact match to Conmar original from 1945, in tooth design, pins, stopper box, and then the slider is a vintage original from 1945.

We took apart a rough original to get our pattern. We had exact copies made of the label, and were able to source vintage 1943-produced United-Carr baby Lift-the-Dot snaps which are on the vox tabs. One can find modern copies easily enough, but having vintage ones marked United-Carr is quite fun.

Future productions will have a new format of 8oz. cotton twill we've found in Japan, along with a slightly different Alpaca/wool lining fabric.

The jacket would ideally fit someone in the range of 5'10" to 6'1", with a chest of 41" to 43", and a weight of about 175-205 pounds.