I have an extra pair of Men's Medium (size 9/22.50 cms) police riot gloves used as TFA pilots gloves. made by in the UK by Southcombe Brothers the original manufacturer. Sizing info here:
http://www.southcombe.com/sizing/i70
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The leather WampaWear is using is not heavy enough and it is not pebbled. The end of the gauntlet cuff on the replicas lacks the roll and the shape of the foam padding is slightly off. For most people they are close enough and are half the price of what I could get originals for last year. The Costumebase gloves have all sorts of dimensional issues on the pads (too big) and worst of all aren't even made from real leather but rather shiny "pleather" polyurethane.
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WampaWear (Out of Colorado but made in East Asia) and CostumeBase on Ebay (in Argentina) both sell knockoffs of the orginals. They participated in group order on the OEM production gloves from Southcombe Bros. Which they then promptly copied but the copies are subpar imo. The originals were surplus police riot gloves aka public order gloves that came both lined with lightweight synthetic black fleece and lined with kevlar. Very heavy duty and well made. Both were used in filmed TFA. Southcombe Bros advised me that the reason the gloves were surplused was because the UK police force switched to a different riot armor which provided wrist/arm protection and the large gauntlet portion of the glove was no longer necessary.
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I organized the group order of gloves we did for the Americas and Asia last year over at Rebel Legion. At the time Southcombe required a minimal order of 20 gloves at full MSRP. The Pound Sterling to USD exchange rate was not favorable at the time and trans Atlantic shipping was expensive. Organizing it and getting everyone to pay on time was a huge headache. With cheaper replicas that are close enough for most folks I do not think it is worth organizing another run from Southcombe and thats if they would even do it again as they are a large company I was surprised they even entertained doing such a small run.
Here are some photos of a pair from the group order. I believe the wrist straps were cut off those used in TFA. The glove has a triangle shaped gusset on the inside of the wrist.
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