![]() ![]() Instead of paying for models, the company paid for public service announcements about drug-addicted infants and violence against police officers. The men’s outerwear brand famous for its tablecloth-like fabrics, ribbed bottoms, and shoulder epaulettes was one of the biggest success stories in 1980s fashion-so successful that they actually grew bored with their celebrity endorsements and decided to use their advertising dollars on anti-drug and pro-vote campaigns. Nazi iconography tends to turn off potential buyers. ![]() Here is a shot I compiled from two photos showing earlier and current NASA non-astronaut aircrew attire.While there are few unbreakable rules in advertising, most agencies would advise against using images of Adolf Hitler in association with your clothing brand. I saw a size 44 one at the Valiant Air Command museum gift shop for 50 bucks, just down the road from KSC’s visitor center, when I was there in September and foolishly didn’t buy it. Don’t go looking for a new one unless you want to shell out big money, as they can easily go for more than 300 bucks. I do know that Nomex CWU-27/P royal blue flight suits pop up in the surplus world from time to time as they were used by the Coast Guard and other government agencies. Maybe it’s something you wouldn’t sell too many of, but I’d sure buy one and you’d think it would be pretty easy to manufacture. I’ve never seen one turn up on eBay, either. ![]() I’ve heard at one point you could buy a replica of the two-piece white Apollo under suit (and at least one website shows photos of them) but I guess they haven’t been made in a while. Alpha makes a halfway decent (but very thin) shuttle crew jacket if you swap out all the patches on it but that’s about it. I’ve never really understood why there are so few good reproductions of astronaut duds. A Apollo-era yellow jacket with the right patches (as Tom Hanks wore in the movie when he tells the family he’s going up on 13) would be a great reproduction item to have as daily wear. They’re not really MA-1s as there are some apparent slight details in the design if you really know flight jackets well (I was always more partial to the L-2 series jackets anyway). Here’s my own jacket, bought at the KSC gift shop and modified with a few items: I need to go back and upload the dozens of photos of other suits and jackets I have elsewhere. :blink: Ed Gibson: This one was at Seattle. I stood there for a few moments and took it in. got lots of space suit photos and I thought I'd focus on flight suits and jackets here: Wally Schirra: Pete Conrad: Owen Garriott: John Young: Bob Crippen: (issue boots and helmet liner in the foreground) I love Crippen's "Navy" take on the later NASA patch here! Deke Slayton's A2: And the mother of all flight helmet collections. I really hope to get my mitts on a real NASA jacket someday, but not the early light blue "disco" one. I decided to post them just for the heck of it and maybe get a discussion going. A recent trip to Kennedy Space Center got me close to some amazing examples. But I've always had a soft spot for US flight jackets after 1942, so naturally I document what I can when I see it. My primary hobby is collecting US military stuff from the WW2 era. I know this is an old thread, but I didn't think starting a new one made any sense. ![]()
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