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2020.2.17
Title
Falmers Jacket with Cotton Rib Collar
Date(s)
- nd [1975-1985] (Creation)
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(nd [1962-1998])
Administrative history
The company was founded in the early 1960s by Tom and June Easterford (they had met in 1955 working at the Lee Cooper factory in Harold Wood, Essex) but they left and began another business soon afterwards. By the 1970s Falmer Jeans were described as Britain's number one maker of jeans. They went into administration in 1998 and the brand name was purchased by Matalan.
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Dark blue nylon short jacket with cotton rib collar. It fastens centre front with a zip and has a small triangular tab at the top of the zip which buttons at the neck, covering the top of the zip closure. The turn down collar is dark blue cotton ribbing with a stripe of red at the bottom edge. There are three front pockets which close with zips, one at the right chest and two angled pockets at the waist. The waistband has a button tab in the centre and is elasticated at the sides and back. It has narrow cuffs which close with one button. All of the buttons are dark blue plastic with four holes. The jacket body is lined in striped blue and red cotton, the sleeves in nylon. Size M.
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Label: FALMERS / SIZE M / Shell + Sleeve Lining / 100% NYLON / Lining and Collar / 100% COTTON