I have... a BROWN COAT!
POSTED BY: PhoenixRose
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:23
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Originally posted by Grizwald:
Oh, and one more thing, re. the patches:
My husband has an A2 jacket from the Air Force. He loves to switch out his patches, so he had Velcro sewed onto the jacket where the patches go, with the fuzzy side on the jacket and the hooky side on the patches. If you think you'll want to switch them out, that's a good way to do it. You can do it yourself or you can take it to a tailor but they'll do basically the same thing, only probably with a better sewing machine. Whatever you do, you'll be changing the coat permanently, but hey, you're a Browncoat, right? Browncoats are forever.
No changing them out for me! I know right where they're gonna go. Sewing them might be a problem, though. Could be I'll find some upholstry glue and stick them on; save my fingers from the slings and arrows of sewing leather. Hey, I've done it before. It hurts! And I wouldn't trust any non-browncoat tailor to do it for me, so you know...
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One summer.
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I have one too! I got mine randomly on e(vil)bay... it's suede and shiny!!
I'm putting a Lyndono patch on it very soon... and an Independents flag :)
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I got me a suede Browncoat this weekend too (a birthday gift!) I wear it with pride now!
- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
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Okay, now, let's see some photos of these shiny coats!
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Originally posted by Grizwald:
Okay, now, let's see some photos of these shiny coats!
If I had a photo, I'd post it...but I don't yet (nor do I have a digital camera, so that makes life so much harder....)
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Oooooh, suede. Mine's smooth leather. I think it's a little easier to care for, but not as fuzzy 
Once my patches come I will see about posting a picture. Not sure where the family camera got to...
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Originally posted by Grizwald:
My Browncoat smelled of moth balls, and Mr. Grizwald claims to be allergic to them (not sure if that is possible, anyway he hates the smell). I cleaned it with saddle soap and then oiled it with mink oil (it was kind of stiff from storage and needed it anyway). So now it smells like a mink that's been sleeping on a bed of moth balls.Oh well.
Oh, that's too bad! I have to agree with you Mr Grizwald on the subject of mothballs, though. They smell terrible, and they're so loaded with chemicals they make my nose all runny.
Have you tried... cedar? It's working very well for me. It's a powerful scent; supposed to repell moths just as well as mothballs, actually! So it might be able to overcome that smell. If you could find a cedar chest to lock it in, the wood might absorb some of the chemical nastiness, too.
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Well, I'm going to look for that cedar oil you mentioned, but I don't think I'll put it in a cedar chest. My mom put something mothball-y in a cedar chest once and the mothballs overpowered the cedar, and now the cedar chest smells of mothballs, and so does anything she puts in there. grrrr!
Where does one find cedar oil for sale?
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Oh my! Well, good to know about cedar chests and mothballs... Moth balls should be banned!
Anyway, cedar oil should be sold anyplace that carries natural products. Health food stores, holistic stores, exotic gift stores; really anyplace likely to carry oil burners. Probably available online too, somewhere. My preffered brand (at least for cedar oil) is Now, and their website is www.nowfoods.com not sure if you can order from the site, but they should have a list of stores that carry them, which should also carry various other brands.
I've read several suggestions online for removing the stench of mothballs. One was to hang the clothing in fresh air for several days, bringing it in at night. Another suggested baking soda, though they said to mix it with wash water, so that wouldn't work on leather, but maybe if you just sprinkled it and packed it in plastic, kind of like the newspaper trick... not sure about that, but baking soda is supposed to absorb smell. You might also want to try getting it dry cleaned; maybe they know how to get out the chemicals, which you want to try to do in any case. They are nasty.
Good luck!
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Anyway, cedar oil should be sold anyplace that carries natural products...
Thank you, PhoenixRose!
I still wanna see a picture!
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They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!
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