As close as I get to fashion

[hirez]

Some number of years ago... Ok, it was the Phoenix festival with the Stuffies, Poppies & Neds on the same bill. And Stereolab, Shellac, The Grid, Iggy Pop, Carter, The Fall, Gary Clail, Killing Joke, Buzzcocks, the Inspirals, Renegade Soundwave, Swervedriver, Skunk Anansie and, er, the Ozrics. I could, if I were a bigger tosser than you might

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[jozafeen]

If you have a picture/link/can draw it, I can make almost anything you know. Message me on Friendface or my Clofink email if you think I can help mister! :-)

[quercus]

You'd need the right fabric though. If this is the Dutch stuff I think (I think I've got a piece of it myself) then it's an odd sort of fabric - hefty twill, more like tarpaulin than shirt.

[hirez]

This is the thing: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dutch-Army-Surplus-HBT-Shirt-42-Medium-/220699321455

[nmg]

A Poppies-loving friend claims that Dutch mil surplus combats are the One True Trouser, due to their ability to fit two DVDs into each thigh pocket.

Me, I have a man^H^H^Hmessenger bag.

[valkyriekaren]

Not like this?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dutch-Army-Olive-Shirt-Good-Quality-Stylish-/251049555638?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&var=&hash=item3a73b836b6#ht_1099wt_956

or this?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1950s-NEW-AUTHENTIC-MILITARY-STYLE-VINTAGE-DUTCH-LONG-SLEEVE-ARMY-GREEN-SHIRT-/270915707482?pt=US_CSA_MC_Shirts&var=&hash=item3f13d5a25a#ht_500wt_1204

(says 1950s, herringbone twill)

[hirez]

Yep, I think it's the second one - see ebay link above for a better view of the fabric.

[valkyriekaren]

I don't break out the killer Google-fu for just anyone you know.

[hirez]

:D

[jarkman]

Hm - might it be this ?

http://www.europeanarmysurplus.co.uk/shopitem.php?itemid=STNL007-AV-BK&PHPSESSID=b0o5g33slie1kj6hru7s21r8m0

That lot are wholesale-only, but the retail arm is here:
http://www.britisharmysurplus.com/european.php

and might well be worth asking.

Tell me more of this Futurism of which you speak.

[hirez]

That's the fellow.

Mind, at only six per bundle, that's going to be about twenty quid. I shall have to open a stall knockin' aht quality schmutter isn't it.

... Although I did kind of come away from Marcruss with an 80s Dutch poly/cotton shirt and a 90s German example. As the bloke said, the German one's cut far better.

[hirez]

The Italian Futurist-pattern sort of vaguely looks like a more impressionistic DPM with the colour pallete of Boccioni's Dynamism of a Human Body

[cybermule]

Oh - I went to that one. Good stuff :)