Boy's jacket, padded and lined racing-style made of black nylon with white stripes, upturned collar and zip details, made in England, 1970s.

Black racing style jacket for a boy of about 10. The jacket has an upright collar, long sleeves with elasticised fabric cuffs. The jacket is black with a panel of white down each side. There are two white stripes around the proper left sleeve and one on the zipped pocket on the left hand side of the chest. The jacket has two other flat open pockets, one on each side at waist height. The jacket has a metal zip, fastening up the front. It is slightly padded all over, sandwiched between a blue nylon lining and the outer black and white fabric. It has been stitched in vertical panels and, on the white side sections, it has been stitched in a series of rectangles, resembling a quilted surface.

This jacket, along with numbers B.220-2011 to B.239-2011, are all from the same batch of dead shop stock from a childrenswear shop that shut down in the late 1970s. As a result all of the items in this lot are in mint condition, many still have their shop labels attached. All items were purchased via a house clearance company.

This garment is part of a range of childrenswear from the 1970s.
These clothes were all dead stock from a childrenswear shop which shut down around the end of the 1970s. Many of the clothes were made in the far east and were imported for sale in the UK. All the garments are unworn, and many retain the brand tags and labels they were initially sold with and give us a valuable snapshot of the styles and fashions that were available to both girls and boys of different ages during this period.

B.221-2011