13/08/2026
📚✨ STORY TIME! ✨📚
I was digging through a pile recently at one of the ropa usadas when this jacket caught my eye. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary vintage pilot’s uniform jacket. Buttttt… upon closer inspection, I started finding clues. 👀
One identifies the brand as Donald S. Lavigne, a company founded in Miami in 1923 that became the first local manufacturer of uniforms for the Miami Police Department.
Then I found another tag with a date: August 24, 1967. And underneath the “MR.” designation was a handwritten name—Kurt [last name illegible🙄].
And then there’s another tag that reads: “Issued by authority of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Union Made.”
Okay… now I’m invested. But THEN…I found a handwritten note tucked inside one of the pockets that says: “Pan Am / Pan American Jacket Airlines.”
I think I may have just stumbled across a 1960s Pan Am pilot’s jacket!✈️💙
And of course, I’m geeking out because I already have a little collection of iconic vintage Pan Am travel bags and even some of their advertising stirrers. So naturally, finding an actual piece of Pan Am history hiding in a pile of discarded clothing feels like the universe was specifically trying to find me. 😂
This is exactly why I love digging through the pisos (and why I want to save it ALL). You just never know what you’re going to find—or what story is hiding in the pockets, behind the labels, or stitched into the seams. The coolest things are sometimes the things everyone else overlooked. 🧵✈️📚
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