Reversible Padded Sukajan, Kill'em All Women Pilots Back and Tiger on Waves, Black and Burgundy, Free Size
Reversible Padded Sukajan, Kill'em All Women Pilots Back and Tiger on Waves, Black and Burgundy, Free Size
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Every piece is measured by hand, in centimetres as Japan measures. Please allow 1–2 cm (about ½ inch) for the give of the material and the hand that held the tape. すべて手採寸（cm表記）。素材のゆとりや採寸の個人差により、1〜2cm程度の誤差が生じる場合がございます。あらかじめご了承ください。
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Widths are taken across one layer with the piece laid flat; double them for the full circumference.幅は平置きの片面を採寸しています。周囲は2倍してください。
Condition report
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- Honest Wear
- As Found
Flight jacket meets Yokosuka
The souvenir jacket was born among servicemen, and this one remembers it in both directions: a squadron style tribute with tally flags on one face, a tiger on the waves on the other. The wear on the black side only adds to the flight jacket character.
Best for: Aviation and military souvenir collectors; a warm everyday sukajan
Condition notes
Visible wear: fading and light marks to the black face, especially sleeves and cuffs; softened rib. Embroidery on both backs presents well.
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A reversible padded souvenir jacket, described as from around the 1980s, closing on an RRR zip: black rayon with a wartime women pilots theme and a Kill'em All back on one face, burgundy with beige sleeves and a tiger on breaking waves on the other. Free size.
The Piece
The black face tells a story. Across the back, Kill'em All in cream script arcs over a winged, goggled gremlin figure in red, blue and yellow, beside lettering for the women auxiliary pilots of the Second World War, Air Craft Destroyed, and a row of small embroidered flag tallies. The front carries an embroidered American flag, the letters W.A.S.P. and a round squadron patch on the upper sleeve, with olive rib at the collar, cuffs and hem, in the manner of a flight jacket.
The burgundy face is the classic souvenir jacket. A golden tiger crouches on a crest of blue and white waves with green bamboo beneath the word Japan, two smaller tigers face each other on the chest, and embroidery runs down the beige raglan sleeves. Burgundy rib closes this side.
The body is padded throughout for warmth, and no maker's label is present; the RRR mark on the zip is the only signature.
Details
- Maker: Unbranded; RRR zip
- Style: Reversible padded souvenir jacket
- Shell: Rayon (per description); padded
- Embroidery: Kill'em All gremlin and flag tally; American flag and W.A.S.P. front; tiger on waves; paired chest tigers
- Colour: Black with olive rib; burgundy with beige sleeves
- Size: Free, fits a modern L to XL
- Chest width: 58 cm (22.8 in)
- Length: 62 cm (24.4 in)
- Sleeve: 61 cm (24.0 in)
- Yuki (centre back to cuff): 92 cm (36.2 in)
- Era: Around the 1980s (per description)
Measured flat by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in).
Condition
- Visible wear: fading and light marks to the black face, especially at the sleeves and cuffs, with softened rib, shown in close-up.
- The embroidery on both backs presents well; every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade C (fair, visible wear) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch. Dry clean only, by a cleaner experienced with rayon and padded garments; store on a broad hanger away from direct light.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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