Quote Originally Posted by Alan H View Post
Marlow White also sells Mess Dress Jackets, if I remember correctly. Oops...wrong sub forum!
Tsk, tsk Alan, next you're going to start talking about Red Sea Rig

Not that there is anything inherently wrong with that... just as you wrote, wrong sub-forum!

Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC View Post
Sorry CMcG.

I should have been more specific.

I would want the jacket in the picture. It is significantly different than the Police uniform jacket.

Note the lower lapel notch.
Note the wider and buttoned waistband.

The shoulders are rolled and the sleeves are more like a suit coat.

This is what I meant I wanted.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
No problem Wizard, I tried! Still, I can see that they are different but I wouldn't say that the difference is significant. More like variations on a theme.

The type of jacket you're interested in doesn't appear common in black, so maybe you could dye one? But you also asked specifically for barathea wool... maybe your ideal version would be a custom job. Now if we only knew a contemporary kilt maker who would be up to the task

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I did a search with the term that OC Richard used "battle dress jacket" and came up with something a little different. I quite like it and this one is more my style! It has a stand up folded collar and no lapels. It comes in the usual tan/khaki/olive colours but also comes in black, like so:



In terms of availability of any of these types of jackets, eBay seems to have lots of options for used surplus. I also found someone on eBay making reproductions for under $100. This seller has the black one I posted above and also ones like this:


Here is a link to that sellers selection, which includes the two I posted and a bunch of other styles too:
http://shop.ebay.com/barrylyndon28/m....c0.m270.l1313