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Hi I thinking about buying WW2 RAF Jacket Simplified jacket but it has no belt would it be hard to find a belt for it
Thanks

Hi Barry, not too hard if your slim but be prepared to pay slightly over the odds for a longer one if you can find one!
Happy hunting chap ....

Or why dont you just wear a 37 Patt webbing belt, not wrong....

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S.L."A" Flight, 105 Sqn, 8 Group PPF

2nd S.A.S. Forward Recce

Glider Pilot Regiment Sgt Pilot

Or have 2 smaller ones professionally joined together?

Yes that may work if they are damaged / mothed but due to the difficulty in finding nice ones now i wouldn't personally mutate wartime items, is there any reasonably correct repros about that would do the job ?

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9/10ths cloud cover over the target area ?, time to change the toilet freshener me thinks!

S.L."A" Flight, 105 Sqn, 8 Group PPF

2nd S.A.S. Forward Recce

Glider Pilot Regiment Sgt Pilot

I dare say WPG or SOF - not sure how the colour matches up to a wartime tunic (badly no doubt!)

Re the '37 pattern suggestion - see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbVK6nblS8o&t=333s

Good grief .. we were still issued them, and wore them too, when I joined in 1966 .. they were a pain to blanco up ... !!

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United Press
'The Writing 69th'
8th USAAF
Somewhere in England

... " I got vision and the rest of the world is wearing bifocals " ...

... " I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them " ...

There are loads of the blue/grey ones out there which negates the need to blanco....
Barry, any luck finding a serge dress belt yet, what size you after chap ?

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9/10ths cloud cover over the target area ?, time to change the toilet freshener me thinks!

S.L."A" Flight, 105 Sqn, 8 Group PPF

2nd S.A.S. Forward Recce

Glider Pilot Regiment Sgt Pilot

Not sure I understand that .. are you saying they came in white and had to be colored ..??

We were issued RAF blue ones, they came in that color, but they were dirty ( and got dirty over time ) and so needed cleaning, hence my reference to blancoing .. there weren't any ready made polished ones available in the 1940's I think, (or 'staybright' buttons) .. !!

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War Correspondent
United Press
'The Writing 69th'
8th USAAF
Somewhere in England

... " I got vision and the rest of the world is wearing bifocals " ...

... " I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them " ...

Sorry Allen, think we got crossed wires....i thought you were relating to natural khaki coloured ones that you blancoed up with blue/grey, i was referring to the blue/grey dyed type that Barry could get away with wearing with sd tunic

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9/10ths cloud cover over the target area ?, time to change the toilet freshener me thinks!

S.L."A" Flight, 105 Sqn, 8 Group PPF

2nd S.A.S. Forward Recce

Glider Pilot Regiment Sgt Pilot