Re: [CR] Front Pocket Jerseys - Classic Fashion

(Example: Framebuilders:Alberto Masi)

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From: "Phil Brown" <philcycles@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:26:48 -0800
To: Rendezvous Classic <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Front Pocket Jerseys - Classic Fashion


On Nov 7, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Steven M. Johnson wrote:
> Like water bottles on the handlebars and sewups wrapped around your
> shoulders, I noticed several riders in the movie at the link below
> wearing the old wool Jerseys with chest pockets.
>
> I remember seeing wool Fuji jerseys for sale in the in the 70s with
> front chest pockets, but they were pretty expensive. I never saw any
> racers wearing them in the 70s.
>
> It seemed to me that it was pretty much implied at that time, that
> chest pocket jerseys were not cool in the racer fashion wardrobe?
>
> Steven Johnson, Millersville, MD
>

In 1972 I bought a Faema jersey at Velo Sport in Berkeley with front pockets but by the time I was buying jerseys from Gianni in 1974 they had disappeared. Phil Brown Still have it in Oakland, calif.