Ready for the day ahead.

Empire Wool & Canvas
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OD OD.

Don't do the Canadian tux too often, but

Lefty OD
Freewheelers
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6 1/2 years; some washes

Walk in the bloody park, mate.

(Wearing the yoozh)

430
634-XHSib

OG Alpha Industries M-65 (from the 70s, I think)
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False Spring #2

Freewheelers
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False Spring #1 all done. Back to winter.

Columbia Echo Base parka
Ice Armor mittens
634-XHSib
Lems boots

Just saw this at my local Asian supermarket.

"Packed in the UK"

Good job, guys.

Empire Wool & Canvas
430
634-XHSib

@GoodtimeJohnny I gave mine their first water recently, and they were back to being absolute bloody cardboard again afterwards. So maybe they were washed before selling. Who knows. Anyways; hope you get the shrink you're after!

@Tago-Mago Cheers! The seeming lack of contrast stitching threw me off. Guess the threads get subdued in their old age.

@SamD Say, what shirt are you wearing in the this vid? It's looking great!

The pasque flowers are up; the boreal chorus frogs are awake. Spring has reached Minnesota!

@Northman Just so happens I'm wearing it right now! Yes. Unrecognisably soft/pliable compared to how it started. Though it's definitely still decidedly hefty/substantial of course, as that's just the nature of the fabric.

I still remember the first few months were particularly uncomfortable in the armpits where four bloody layers of fabric all combine in a little square. That, for instance, is utterly unbothersome now. And has been for ages.

@Steve Good to know; thanks! Looks so much better with just the two buttons and the long, crisp lapels. Wise move!

...or was the jacket in the second product pic maybe an early prototype? I can't make out a buttonhole where the top button would be.

@Steve I think this jacket looks sharp as all heck when the top button is skipped and the lapels crisply fall all the way down to the middle button (as seen in the second pic in the product page).

So I was just wondering... Do the lapels need to be ironed in place to get them to stay long for the super-sharp two-button look? Or do they just kinda naturally fall into place if you consistently ignore the top button?

The second product pic and the third product pic just look like two different jackets with the way the lapels are so different!