Nautical attire of yesteryear

[JSYmartini]

Anyone remember those navy blue fleece jackets from the '70's/80's? Javelin I think they were called?

Don't suppose they're still around anywhere

For some strange reason I want one

 

[VicS]

Fibre-pile jackets they were called.

PBO reviewed quite a few different makes in PBO 190 ( October 1992) .

Javelin and Tog 24 see to have come out as a couple of the best. I have a Tog24 but was never impressed and in fact have hardly ever worn it!

Some cheapies but most were in the £15 - £30 price range. Although Equinoxe offered a couple, described by PBO as "opulent" made of chloro-fibre ( that's the stuff that Damart use for their thermal underwear IIRC) fur stitched to a proofed nylon for over £50.

 

[Robin]

Anyone remember those navy blue fleece jackets from the '70's/80's? Javelin I think they were called?

Don't suppose they're still around anywhere

For some strange reason I want one

At the time Javelin were advertised by a very attractive young lady, who I later discovered was only 15 yrs old at the time.

SWMBO still has her waterproof/windproof outer version from 24 years ago and still wears it now. And she looks every bit as good as that young lady, even in her bus pass pic!

 

[Lakesailor]

This sort of thing?

 

[JSYmartini]

This sort of thing?

That looks like the one! Got an unusual exterior I've not seen since. Supremely warm in their day although I suspect they don't compare to the modern stuff

 

[VicS]

Similar

 

[prv]

As a kid I remember my dad's red one (just like in Lakey's picture) hanging in the cupboard we used to play in. However, I think he threw it away along with his yellow PVC oilies of equal vintage. After 15 years or so away from sailing, the PVC troosers split right across the bum as he was struggling into them in the cabin of a small chartered dayboat

The fuzzy jacket was a "javelin jacket".

Pete

 

[rob2]

If you hung up your Javelin in a Hamble pub, it was advisable to pin a badge on the collar first or you'd be trying on thirty or more before you could leave... I may still have one at the back of the wardrobe still waiting for me to sew a new zip in.

Rob.

 

[simon barefoot]

I had a boiler suit made of that, it was sooo warm!

 

[Robin]

The true Javelin ones had an outer surface that was coated or maybe heat treated so it didn't 'pill' or 'bobble' like many of the cheaper copies. The Javelins we had went oner better still with an outer proofed nylon skin that is shower and windproof. I'm surprise nobody has yet posted the Javelin ad pictures, should be in Lakey's files. It was up there with the bare bum tennis player girl pic almost.

 

[ccscott49]

This sort of thing?

Still available, helly hansen make them, I'm wearing one right now on the rig, we use them all the time under overalls. Complete suits are available, also used under dry suits when diving, "wooly bears"

 

[Keen_Ed]

Their workwear range.

http://www.hhworkwear.com/PRODUCTS/liestal-jacket

 

[PeteCooper]

Was this the one you were thinking of?

 

[JSYmartini]

Aha the unusual spelling explains my lack of google success, apologies for bringing the subject up again, I've since found previous threads on here.

It appears they were being reproduced in the UK up until a few years ago.

Sounds like quite a few people still have them tucked away in the back of a wardrobe somewhere, if anyone has one that's not covered in anti foul then I would be interested in buying!

 

[Robin]

Was this the one you were thinking of?

. But I later heard she was only 15 when the pics were taken

 

[Resolution]

Anyone remember those navy blue fleece jackets from the '70's/80's? Javelin I think they were called?

Don't suppose they're still around anywhere

For some strange reason I want one

Chris Robb from the raggie side is still wearing his original........

 

[Robin]

Chris Robb from the raggie side is still wearing his original........

SWMBO was wearing her showerproof one from 1988 today when we had a walk along Poole Quay. I would have worn mine but sadly the size defeated me a year or two back and it was handed down to a friend...

 

[Lakesailor]

Must be good stuff. The bloke in the picture is Brian Bevan, cox of the Humber Lifeboat until 2001.
I took that on a jolly on the boat for a local paper.

 

[nickf]

Can still get similar jacket at http://www.farfield.co.uk/shop/3/index.htm (the fibre pile one)
for £45

 

[burgundyben]

A cheapo copy of the Javelin jacket was my first item of nautical clothing, would have been about 1978, I recall it was £7 ( Or £9?) and bought from the original Alladins Cave, the barge on Blundell Lane.