WW2 USN US NAVY DECK JACKET

thanks to my buddy Oscar for finding this one ......it's a rare shot where you can see the first run of the N1 alongside the first blue deck jacket the "zipped one" .

10 GALLON HATS

what's better to complete your "man of the frontier look"as featured on the latest Mister freedom's collection ,than a perfectly weathered 10 gallon hat!??

So what exactly a true "10 gallon" hat is !??

Well ,i'll state the obvious:it's usually a wool or fur felt hat with a 7" high crown and a 4" large rolled or not brim.Most often it bares what is commonly known as :"the carlsbad crease" but is also known nowadays as the "gus" in reference to the lonesome dove series.

John Batterson Stetson (1830-1906), who is sometimes credited with inventing the cowboy hat, heavily promoted the "10 gallon" starting around the mid 20's.It's when it started to be popular among ranchers and movie stars such as Tom Mix and others...

The Stetson company as always stated that "ten-gallon" refers to how much water such hats could carry in their crowns. This story is wrong,as in fact it barely holds 3 quarts.You'll also find the myth that 10 gallon hat refers to a Spanish unit of capacity ....also wrong .

In fact , "Ten-gallon hat" is just,as often,the result of a linguistic mix-up. "Galón" is the Spanish word for "braid." Real cowboy hats came to Texas from the Spanish via Mexico,some vaqueros wore as many as ten braided hatbands on their sombreros, and those were called "ten galón hats." English speakers heard gallon. ....'nuf said

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AND YOU WANT ME TO DO MORE SHIRTS !!!

here's the back of the shirt i did around 2010 for my buddy Papa Nuy 

here's what i've just found while browsing the web ...thx Ralphy !!

So after the Cushman people it's the Ralph Lauren team who's been ripping off my design and some might wonder why i don't produce some designs anymore ......if you need some original artwork this gun is for hire 

LOOKING FORWARD......HAPPY NEW YEAR

WHAT ARE THE ODDS !??

Nice and salty straight from the Warner bros wardrobe department

gotta love the brand ...perhaps the earliest CPO tag i've ever seen

Warner's storage #

1900's goodyear rubber button 

they were made by the American hard rubber company under contract with the Navy

Nicely faded on the sleeves and shoulders like a good ol' pair of denims 

After the post i've made in june of this year , i've never thought i'll be able to find another example of the first CPO ,but i did this week end .This incredible find was lost in a pile of shirts from the Warner bros studios used as civil war yank's shirts.....

IT'S ALL NATURAL .....

as it was featured on an older post 2 years ago

after 2 years of work ,worn only once a week and washed only twice.....

I never do that, because i'm not into "denim head" forums at all ,but i've decided i could be fun for once to give it a try.... .So here's my modest contribution to the "before and after" kinda post ....

LOVIN' IT

February 19^th1952 : Gene  enlist in the Us Navy at age 17 , by cheating on his age.