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Welcome to the Eastman Leather Clothing Website, and to our range of specialist 40's style wartime flying jackets and accessories. This range of specialist 40's style wartime flying jackets and accessories, pearl harbour has been compiled for those of us who desire a truly authentic garment from that period. That is, a garment which in design, components, and pearl harbour quality, matches in every detail possible the original garment which it is a reproduction of. The nostalgia behind these styles is what makes them attractive. They were born out of a time of necessity, designed for a specific purpose - to function and protect under adverse and challenging conditions. Since then they have become a timeless fashion item, appealing to the rugged utilitarian image. Original flying jackets are pearl harbour collectors' items.
All the components that go into making an Eastman, have been painstakingly recreated at great expense. The materials and the methods of the manufacture of these garments were commonly available fifty years ago. Today, the ingredients needed to reproduce these materials are mostly gone, long ago superseded by more modern methods. To a large pearl harbour extent, this is what you are paying for in an Eastman garment. For, to have specially made, these materials require our suppliers to step out of their normal line of production, hence making them more costly to produce. Making these old style materials again requires starting from scratch - re-tooling, researching, digging down through old documents trying to find the original specs - and quite often it takes more than one go to pearl harbour get it right, absorbing tremendous amounts of time before doing so.