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11. The first "A-2" I made the pattern for myself.
I made the first A-2 myself. The first thing I worked on was leather. The A-2 is made from horsehide, and finding the right material for clothing was a challenge. I ended up re-tanning horsehide, the same leather used for shoe soles. I wanted to source parts like zippers in the US, but the older models were discontinued, so I had a Japanese manufacturer make something similar. In the US, I was able to view military-spec documents at the Smithsonian Institution and the Pentagon, which allowed me to figure out the exact stitch count and other details, but I didn't have the essential pattern. Flight jackets from various manufacturers all have different shapes, right? That was the reason. So, I put the A-2 on a torso, pasted newspaper over it, and created a pattern.
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