Knitted jerseys with front pockets are available from /www.trad-tex.com/index.html.
The style I'm trying to find is the earlier one, with button neck and
collar, 1930's/40's style, like the third Follis one on
http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/
Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England
>From: "Mitch Harris" <mitch.harris@gmail.com>
>To: "Syke - Deranged Few M/C" <sykerocker@yahoo.com>
>CC: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR]Those 1940s style racing jerseys.
>Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:58:26 -0700
>
>IIRC, by the 70s you never saw front pockets on the wool jerseys in the
>Euro
>racing photos (remember Bike World magazine?) and I associated them with
>50s
>racing. But old hands in my cycling club in the US still swore by them
>for touring and training for all the good reasons mentioned here, and you'd
>hear disussions about where you could still buy jerseys with front pockets.
>As a kid I managed to collect a few wool jerseys with front pockets, which
>I
>still and and which still fit. These also have those spread collars and
>button plackets you saw on the old 50s jerseys, but these were made in the
>70s.
>
>If you could some how get some of the same wool cloth a jersey is made
>from,
>making a double front pocket with a couple button holes would be pretty
>easy. I've altered a couple jerseys this way using an identical donor
>jersey
>whose collar was moth eaten. Would Kucharik, or Rivendell, or any wool
>jersey supplier also sell an 8"x10" swatch of the same fabric?
>
>--Mitch