Classic Wool Donkey Jacket

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The full-leather-back ones were sometimes worn by workers like binmen or market porters, because wet smelly dribbles down your back are just disgusting. They've also got these silly little flaps with buttons over the pockets which were never on mine 35+ years ago, so I got a sharp pointy scissors and carefully cut the stitching and removed them. Kevin Russell, the Anglo-German singer of Frankfurt Oi band Böhse Onkelz, interviewed on TV wearing his donkey jacket in 1983: “I’m not a nazi, I’m just proud to be German. Black 55% Wool 45% Polyester mix, tartan lining, with or without PVC shoulders, button inside pocket.

Donkey jackets are said to have been invented in the late 1800s by two or three different people: John Partridge, the owner of the Keystone works who worked on the Manchester ship canal, and George Key, a small bespoke tailor, have both been named. I will now go through what kind of donkey jackets are available today, from the cheap(er) reproductions to ridiculously expensive designer ones (which are rather insulting, looking at it).A donkey jacket with PVC panels Sack coat: the precursor to the donkey jacket worn from the mid Victorian era onwards by workers and soldiers. By the time I was in my twenties, by then, living in New Zealand, I had embraced the look, the music, and the lifestyle. The donkey jacket is regarded as typical of the British manual labourer and trade unionist as well as members of the political left.

I think it would be great if skins reclaimed the donkey jacket – especially these days, with hipsters hogging them.

Here I purchased the xxxl and it fitted me perfectly around the chest however these aren't meant for anyone with a pot belly as they are more a straight fit. Also, notice the lack of PVC shoulders, which is something else I failed to mention: they were common without them. Many minors sons in Nottingham in the late 1970’s early 80’s wore Donkey Jackets to senior school, some being skinheads / mods, mainly has many parents could not afford a coat for their kids.