Ebay Ike Jackets.......

**2a5t2f7** · 5th May 14, 06:08 AM

I happened upon an Ike jacket for sale on Ebay. This, among others, was surplus to needs by an upstate South Carolina Fire Department. Obviously, the price is great! There are still some others for sale in various sizes and the seller was very responsive to emails.

I lucked out (times 2) as not only can I wear this with the fire department memorial tartan kilt, but can also use it when serving as the fire department chaplain in everyday wear.

Here is an ebay link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fire-departm...item2ed17faaaf

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**TomFromBama** · 5th May 14, 06:47 AM

Newbie question for the board - is this the sort of jacket that could be easily modified and used for evening kilt wear, if you are not a fireman?

**Riverkilt** · 5th May 14, 07:28 AM

For the newbies - What Price Glory has replica War 2 Ike Jackets in Officer and Enlisted styles. Also has RAF battle jackets. All go well with kilts. Don't think they'd go for evening wear since they're not black.

**OC Richard** · 5th May 14, 06:45 PM

It's not so much the colour that would make it look odd for Evening Dress (Evening Dress jackets are often seen in green, blue, and even red and brown) but the style, specifically the pockets.

Too bad they don't have any in my size!

Yes I'm going to get on of the What Price Glory Battledress jackets, the British jacket the Eisenhower jacket was copied from. this

**Benning Boy** · 5th May 14, 07:43 PM

OK, Richard, who made those pipes in the pic above. They look just like my 1966 Grainger and Campbells.

**OC Richard** · 6th May 14, 05:31 PM

Good question! Thing is, there were quite a few makers back then, they all made pipes more or less along the same lines, and pipes from the same maker could vary quite a bit depending on who the turner was.

However Grainger & Campbell didn't start making pipes until 1946, according to Highland Bagpipe Makers, so they couldn't have been played in WWII.

I've spent some time looking over Ringo Bowen's Bagpipe Place Museum site, the pages concerning RG Lawrie, and it's amazing how much variety there is in each of the various periods, and how a certain pipe made in 1900 might strongly resemble a certain pipe made in 1930, but not any other by the same firm.