VIET-NAM JACKET / CAM-RANH Colour:110 SAXE deployment

deployment

Gray Weft Denim and are finished with flat-felled seams

a mid-century protective workwear piece that’s efficacy means it is still used by some welders today

This cotton sateen was the ideal cloth for the temperate climate in the European theatre of war and was bolstered by windproof alpaca lining

both pieces belonging to the wartime movement into cotton HBT utility uniforms

VIET-NAM JACKET / CAM-RANH Colour:110 SAXE deploymentThe Souvenir jacket, or 'sukajan,' was first embroidered by the Japanese for American soldiers during the occupation and was initially sold in street stalls and later at the Post Exchanges of military bases. The Yokosuka Navy Yard, from where the Sukajan name is derived, was one of the main arsenals of the Imperial Japanese Navy leading up to World War II. After the war, the base came to be occupied by US forces. Early Sukajan jackets were typically