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skippercollector

(212 posts)
7. I found one of mine!
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 08:30 PM
Sep 2015

I am a diehard fan of the original Battlestar Galactica. When the show originally aired in 1978 and 1979, the science fiction magazines sold jackets for both children and adults based upon the Colonial Warriors uniform. I never ever expected to see one, because I'd never even seen one at a science fiction convention.
I was garage-saling in August and found one of the jackets for $20. It was a boy's size 16 so I can't wear it, and the family couldn't understand why I wanted it. (They kept trying to sell me a box of blank used VHS tapes that they'd recorded on.)
It's not identical to the TV show's jackets. The series' clothes were kind of a Crayola/topsoil brown, and this thing is a dark olive color that looks medium brown in some lighting. It is beautifully made of a very soft corduroy and doesn't even smell musty.

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