Well the chill winter never truly
came this year. I am at the back on my
posting. I really feel poorly about it
but my Himel Brothers brand has been eating up all my time. I am making a rapid post to celebrate some of
the loveliest varied media I have seen in a while. Mixed media really refers to the elements
that create up a jacket that are not as much aesthetic as a way to join natural
materials to cope with conflicting service needs. In the days before synthetics, combining dissimilar
organic materials often adapted jackets and outerwear to handle more stormy
conditions. One of my brilliant Swiss
customers sent me this Heron he purchased and bankrupt in. It has a great patina but more highly I
combined original 1930s wool blankets to create a period liner to the jacket
for additional warmth. These types of
modifications were often done by workers in the 1920s and 30s to make their
jackets more realistic for repair. This
Heron can be purchased at VMC unique in Zurich.
This tradition of using leather as
reinforcement is a real inheritance. Pre
1900 leather was often used as a lining to wool jackets. Odd but true, the smart design of the 1930s upturned
this subject and outerwear makers realized leather really deserved to serve as strengthening
on high wear areas. Ensure out the
Montgomery Ward coat, the leather shows up on all the high wear zones rising
durability.
