With the resurgence of down body warmers and Autumn sweeping into Europe we dug into our outerwear archive to see what we had and came up with this great we think 1950/60's down body warmer from Continental Divide "the Denver" (although we can not find the company). The body warmer has a tough nylon outer shell and fine soft nylon canvas lining, filler is 80% Down and 20% feather. Interesting is the care instructions when drying the vest after washing they recommend to "tumble dry with a clean tennis shoe". The snaps are copper and metal fastenings and still functioning.
This got us thinking and we then had a bit of a dig around and found some Jan Sport Ads for down jackets. We liked the context to real life people versus staged advertising and the reference to "try them at your local Jan Sport purveyor". The second advert you see printing cost are kicking in as it is the 25 cents for a catalogue.
