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Jings
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 Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject: Surplus uniforms.... |
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Folks,
can anyone advise where I'd be able to pick up large(ish) quantities of surplus/used uniforms etc?
I've been trying to find the capes used by the band (see below), but they rarely show up anywhere in surplus shops or ebay and the like.
Similarly I've been looking for the "frock coats" (as below), and I can't turn them up anywhere.
As I say Im looking for quite a few - somewhere between 50 and 100 - so buying them 1 at a time of ebay (or whatever) is no good as they so rarely appear for sale.
Does anyone know what happens to used/surplus items? |
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MOD sales is the best place but capes are still used. Frock coats are made for individuals (2-3 per band) so they are very rarely on sales as they are only replaced when they are in a poor state of repair.
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Jings
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | | MOD sales is the best place but capes are still used. Frock coats are made for individuals (2-3 per band) so they are very rarely on sales as they are only replaced when they are in a poor state of repair. |
Thanks for that, that would certainly explain why I've seen one of each for sale in the past 3 or 4 months.
Basically I've no chance on the coats, then?
BTW By "MOD sales" do you mean these people?
http://www.edisposals.com/
Are the uniforms themselves changed much more frequently? There seems to be plenty of them about. |
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wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............nice pic Delibulger  Were they desperate choosing you to model that? roflmao  |
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Baaaaaaaaaaass
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IF you come across my cape, gimmie a shout....
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you can have mine, waste of space IMHO!
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Baaaaaaaaaaass
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Some tea-leaf had mine away when I was in some war or another.
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| Baaaaaaaaaaass wrote: | | Some tea-leaf had mine away when I was in some war or another. |
Well that's what you get for wearing it on nights out in Fife... 
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Baaaaaaaaaaass
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I was in Raleigh band at the time, so nights out in Fife were few and far between. Thrrrp.
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Hide your cape's
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Jings
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| Baaaaaaaaaaass wrote: | | IF you come across my cape, gimmie a shout.... |
If I come across your cape, you'll probably already know.
boom-tish! |
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Baaaaaaaaaaass
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Crumbs.
Best offer I've had in a while.
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| So when I go through the pile of Capes our Unit now has .... and some are very old! What names do I look out for? |
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2nd Clarinet
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| Fearless wrote: | | So when I go through the pile of Capes our Unit now has .... and some are very old! What names do I look out for? |
On the very old ones look for;
HB
MBT
Joe90
Bootybandy
Deli
On the newer ones, look for the rest of us.......
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I've still got mine Bob.
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