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Scots agency sells out of flying jackets featured in smash hit TV present

Steven Spielberg’s newest TV epic has sparked a rush on flying jackets made by a family-run enterprise within the Borders.

Aero Leather-based Clothes (ALC) in Galashiels has reported a burst of gross sales since Second World Warfare drama Masters Of The Air got here to screens earlier this yr.

The corporate makes actual replicas of classic clothes, usually working hand-in-hand with movie and tv producers in addition to promoting to the general public.

Now it has offered round 30 copies – every costing £1,140 – of the white sheepskin jacket worn by aviator Main John C Egan, performed by Callum Turner within the Apple TV collection.

The flying jackets are in big demand at Aero Leather Clothing in Galashiels

The flying jackets are in huge demand at Aero Leather-based Clothes in Galashiels

Callum Turner and Austin Butler in Masters of the Air

Callum Turner and Austin Butler in Masters of the Air

Managing director Denny Calder – whose father Ken started the enterprise in 1981 – mentioned: ‘Steven Spielberg and his co-producer Tom Hanks are very exact on historic particulars, so what we made them was what Main Egan really wore in actual life.

‘We’re delighted with gross sales thus far. Subsequent winter we count on to be even higher. We make use of 22 folks and every little thing we create is made out of begin to end in Galashiels.

‘Our supplies we attempt to supply from native suppliers as a lot as attainable, and we additionally use Harris tweed and tartans. We’re very pleased with what we do and the way we do it.’

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