The Most Stylish People In London Are All Wearing Army Surplus

There’s a look being popularised on the streets of east London : straight-legged jeans with a big, torn-out hole at the knee, black leather loafers and an old jacket. So old, in fact, it looks as though it could have gone through a war – or did. Field jackets, flight jackets, pea coats and snow parkas in long-faded greens, with small rips at the seams, unidentifiable stains and a loose, worn-out silhouette. Most will have been bought second-hand from Army and Navy surplus stores – there’s a pretty expansive one in Mile End – or from the people who once did and have since offloaded their finds on eBay .

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The trend for military surplus is nothing new of course, and please read literally any article published over on GQ for evidence, but the look is bei