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WWII Paratrooper Jacket

Many have tried but never succeeded at reproducing it and making it better. Realistically, how can you expect a repro to look any better than this. The M42 was the uniform for the 101th Airborne Division troops in Normandy for WWII, father of the M65. There are so many military jackets that have influenced fashion but the M42 has been under the radar, getting overshadowed by the M65, the MA-1, the M51 and others. It’s probably the most fashionably in-tuned military field jacket, without actually being a field jacket….From the shirt collar to the slant-pockets and the waist belt to the reinforced elbows, I feel like this could easily be found in an Engineered Garments catalog.

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Christmas musthave list.

Please note that these items are not suggestions for the winter, they are purely what I want this year. I haven’t posted in over a week, modern warfare has some responsibility in this lack of updates. The scarf is a W+H, I’ll only accept the best thermal scarf on the market, canadians know winter, and I trust that. Patrik Ervell’s take on the varsity is interesting, he went all classic in colors but accentuated it with chest pockets and instead of going melton/leather he went cotton/cotton. I like it though, i trust the fit of his stuff. The Logan Deck lows have been an All time favorite of mine, specifically the beige ones. I know, they look like auths, sperrys…you name it. But at the end of the day, it’s not where you take it from, its where you bring it. Visvim brought the classic deck shoe to a whole other level. The oxford is a GAP, I don’t know why but I don’t own one single white oxford, Gap happens to make plain nice oxfords no need to go all out here. Denim jackets are still scary for me, but I’ll gladly sport one for layering purposes. Engineered Garments tops off the outfit with the best pair of field pants/cargo pants, no brand out there can beat EG’s attention to technical detailing and still care for the fashionable fit of their clothing.

1) W+H thermal scarf. 2) Patrik Ervell Varsity. 3) Visvim Logan Deck. 4) Gap solid oxford. 5) Levi’s Raw denim jacket. 6) Engineered Garments Field Pants.
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