Period Costume Required for Sywell Bash

Well if he wears it to the ball I’ll be mighty impressed!

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I wonder if a certain gentleman in this area with a very large piece of WW2 kit will be turning up with it.
Wink, wink, nod, nod, say no more.

yes we were looking at them today – a fiver for your efforts too at the museum 🙂

What is that big weapon on your work bench? 😀

Oo-er – that’ll be the new 20mm Hispano then 😀

Thanks for your support!

ATB

TT

Why not go for WW1? Puttees are the ‘in’ thing nowadays! Plus you get to use a much more useful .455 Webley than a puny .38 :p

RAF No.1 dress for posh do’s mate – fortunately I never have to worry about costume, I have a museum full!:cool:

yes we were looking at them today – a fiver for your efforts too at the museum 🙂

What is that big weapon on your work bench? 😀

A very small motorbike?? :confused:

might just pack my trusty Enfield .38 just in case mind.

Wossat then? :confused:

Moggy

Further will Tomcat being going in his Dad’s Army outfit? 😀

RAF No.1 dress for posh do’s mate – fortunately I never have to worry about costume, I have a museum full!:cool:

might just pack my trusty Enfield .38 just in case mind…:p

ATB

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I’m wasn’t taking the pee…..I was serious about wanting to see a US Airborne uniform for almost bog all….as I know many who would love to do that as I know it would cost in excess of 250 notes or double that for a in-field uniform.

And I was giving advice too in my first post. You can’t do WW2 uniform either cheaply or accurately via costume hire…that’s a fact.
SUre you can buy cheap tat or hire cheap tat….but it won’t be a WW2 uniform.

And youre the one getting shirty pal……..:mad:

I apologise Firebird, my cracked ribs were giving me some real grief yesterday, I was not feeling too great with the nasty painkillers and I shouldn’t have come on here, on the other hand, it gives you something to do, I tried to do some drawing on the board previously and I suspect it wasn’t a good idea, sorry.
With regard to the Airborne uniform in particular, I see your point, but it looked the business, you wouldn’t have known the difference.
The jacket was in fact Dutch, but based on an American pattern, the trousers were an old pair from Next, believe it or not, but we studied photographs and with the addition of a few badges, and my original steel helmet, you couldn’t have told the difference.
So many people turned up for the party in so many cobbled together outfits, but they looked fantastic, I doubt whether many of the outfits were truly genuine, but they looked right, and people had gone to a lot of effort to do so. We even had some pals turn up in an old Citroen with the Cross of Lorraine applied to the side and they were wearing stripey tee shirts and bunches of onions, not exactly accurate for the time but a good laugh all the same, isn’t that what it’s all about, a bit of fun.

Don’t take the p##s, I was only offering advice, I wish I hadn’t bothered, been there yourself, know all.

I’m wasn’t taking the pee…..I was serious about wanting to see a US Airborne uniform for almost bog all….as I know many who would love to do that as I know it would cost in excess of 250 notes or double that for a in-field uniform.

And I was giving advice too in my first post. You can’t do WW2 uniform either cheaply or accurately via costume hire…that’s a fact.
SUre you can buy cheap tat or hire cheap tat….but it won’t be a WW2 uniform.

And youre the one getting shirty pal……..:mad:

That, I’d like to see……..:rolleyes:

Don’t take the p##s, I was only offering advice, I wish I hadn’t bothered, been there yourself, know all.

They have so much stuff for sale, I’m sure you would be able to find something even if it had to be slightly adapted, which is all part of the fun.
I expect that things have become rarer and prices have gone up, but I recall that for my VE day party, I was able to purchase a complete Khaki uniform for a tenner, period steel helmet for next to nothing, then they have webbing, all sorts of things that you can mess about with. We adapted various bits of clothing available to create a US Airborne uniform complete with insignia for almost bog all

That, I’d like to see……..:rolleyes:

We’re thinking of going to Sywell in December in period garb for the C word we musn’t mention in July 😉

Is there anywhere in the Midlands (Warwicks) preferred that does fairly decent period costume hire for gents and ladies?

What would look best do you reckon? Also was there such thing as a RAF mess uniform during WW2?

Further will Tomcat being going in his Dad’s Army outfit? 😀

Not so many miles away, you could try Anchor Stores in Nottingham and Ripley, probably the best one as it’s just off the A38, wouldn’t take you long to get up there.
They have so much stuff for sale, I’m sure you would be able to find something even if it had to be slightly adapted, which is all part of the fun.
I expect that things have become rarer and prices have gone up, but I recall that for my VE day party, I was able to purchase a complete Khaki uniform for a tenner, period steel helmet for next to nothing, then they have webbing, all sorts of things that you can mess about with. We adapted various bits of clothing available to create a US Airborne uniform complete with insignia for almost bog all, I think that the most expensive item was the ORIGINAL US flag shoulder flash, and I can’t think that it cost more than a fiver.
Don’t take this as proven though, I last went there in March as I was after an army cape, but that didn’t cost me much for an unused example, though what the situation was for older gear, I wouldn’t like to say, my son called in from Nottingham Uni the other day and had taken his mates for a Jolly round there, he said it was still a most fascinating place.
If you went to Legends, there used to be some very interesting stalls selling remarkable gear for very little, I’m sure that they’ve sussed that one out by now. Pity you didn’t live next door,I could fix you up, Tommy, US, Wermacht, Russian, even Hungarian, etc, perhaps I’ll go myself, a period Hungarian Officers uniform must be a rare thing in this country.

Is there anywhere in the Midlands (Warwicks) preferred that does fairly decent period costume hire for gents and ladies?

No costume hire places have decent correct WW2 clothing for hire….it’s too expensive and valuble these days to survive regular hire use, and even the repro stuff isn’t cheap.