ON & BEYOND

ARC’TERYX VEILANCE LT field jacket.
WHITE MOUNTAINEERING BLK Schoeller gloves.
ACRONYM 3A-3TS bag.

It took a while for me to realize I had something special in my house…It comes to no surprise that, being asian, my mother is a seamstress, an amazing one with two industrial sewing machines (a lockstitch & an overlock). She basically makes all my pants fit like a pair of Petit Standards and all my larges fit like a Medium. She used to work for David Bitton as a sample maker, so we have a room full of patterns. I think it’s time for me to take a few lessons so I drew out a little something something that I want to make; it involves Brown&Olive, twill, waxed cotton, corduroy, and a tiny bit of leather. For now, you can peek the blueprints, next update will reveal the materials. Stay tuned…

ps: My little “sample man” is wearing a pair of woolrich field pants hahaha.

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.