Dracul
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Post by Dracul on Mar 8, 2016 10:08:14 GMT -5
My mind drifted today on possible use of post-war Non-Commonwealth jackets to use in place for the British Denison Smocks for loaner kits. I've tried searching what I know, but the more modern DPM and DPM-based patterns are too dense and too many splotches. Don't really look the part, even though the DPM was based off of the Denison Pattern, the sizes are far off.
Anyone know of any other country that adopted a similar pattern to Denison? It doesn't need to be exactly like it, but if its closer to Denison than DPM is, I will consider it.
Of course, I don't mind if I would have to make sewing alterations. Add zipper, knit cuffs, what ever.
If nothing comes up, I'll look into the spoonflower option, these smocks look simple enough to make and should still be much cheaper than repros, and post-war ones. That wouldn't happen anytime soon, got a lot of other projects need working on, haha. Or go cheaper and paint cotton fabric myself, to give it a legit "brushstroke" pattern.
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Post by volkssturm on Mar 8, 2016 19:17:04 GMT -5
About 5-6 years ago I came across what was being sold as "Rhodesian grass-pattern" style camouflage, which was a development from the camo on the Dennison smock. From what I understood from surfing some different forums it was actually a Pakistani camouflage pattern similar to Rhodesian. It's kind of moot since the site, Kammabee Keep, seems to have gone out of business. Don't know if there's another source for it. Now that I look at it again, the color's more subdued and the shapes are a bit different. A Dennison smock: camopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Denison1c.jpg
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Post by Dracul on Mar 8, 2016 19:33:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm actually finding some things here. Rhodesian seems like a close choice. Nice big "brush strokes" on it. I'll dig more later and see what I can find on ebay and such.
The 1st run of the Denison smocks were kind of subdued as well. Users said that it worked rather well in Italy.
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Post by volkssturm on Mar 8, 2016 19:37:54 GMT -5
The problem with Rhodesian is that if it's real it'll cost more than a repro Dennison, and there's not too much in the way of Repro Rhodesian. One thing about the Pakistani jacket I got, it was a pullover patterned after the Dennison. There might be more of them out there, but it seems like an old pattern that went out of use.
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Post by volkssturm on Mar 8, 2016 20:14:25 GMT -5
I looked at the Spoonflower website. It seems to me if someone was seriously intent on doing it and had a good eye for color, they could produce their own brushstroke design that was reasonably close. Their upload pattern page is pretty short on details about the size of the image.
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Post by Dracul on Mar 8, 2016 21:26:53 GMT -5
I could tell that by looking at eBay, but hey, you never know with it. Just something to keep my eye out for.
But if I were to make my own fabric, I'd probably do the actual painting onto the fabric and then constructing it from that. Add some legitimacy and would be much, much cheaper than spoonflower.
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