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<blockquote data-quote="orangevale" data-source="post: 3738834" data-attributes="member: 12022"><p>What a great title for a thread!</p><p></p><p>So, after reading about your repro WWII vintage A-2 acquisition, I hit the interwebs.</p><p></p><p>First, to see what the value of my 30 years-old Cooper commercial (no Velcro patches) A-2 might be.</p><p></p><p>While I was reading about WWII vintage A-2s, I encountered the sentence: “It was designed to fit the thinner male of the time- original A-2 jackets worn by modern men may seem a bit snug in the shoulders.”</p><p></p><p>This sent me to the scrapbook of Dad’s WWII snapshots, and lo and behold there were the “puberty coincided with the Great Depression shoulders”.</p><p></p><p>And then this sent me to research the relative cost of food: USA 1934-36, 33.6% of household budget vs. 2002-03, 13.1%.</p><p></p><p>Thanks, I had fun!</p><p></p><p>P.S. Regarding the second jacket, she might not notice the difference if you don’t hang them in the same closet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orangevale, post: 3738834, member: 12022"] What a great title for a thread! So, after reading about your repro WWII vintage A-2 acquisition, I hit the interwebs. First, to see what the value of my 30 years-old Cooper commercial (no Velcro patches) A-2 might be. While I was reading about WWII vintage A-2s, I encountered the sentence: “It was designed to fit the thinner male of the time- original A-2 jackets worn by modern men may seem a bit snug in the shoulders.” This sent me to the scrapbook of Dad’s WWII snapshots, and lo and behold there were the “puberty coincided with the Great Depression shoulders”. And then this sent me to research the relative cost of food: USA 1934-36, 33.6% of household budget vs. 2002-03, 13.1%. Thanks, I had fun! P.S. Regarding the second jacket, she might not notice the difference if you don’t hang them in the same closet. [/QUOTE]
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