{"id":12128,"date":"2021-02-24T22:02:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=12128"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:22:11","slug":"military-surplus-mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/military-surplus-mitt\/","title":{"rendered":"British Mine Laying Glove-Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After years of not knowing, this piece has finally been identified as the “British Mine Laying Glove”. This unique piece of military surplus was sold in Banana Republic Travel & Safari stores but was not featured in the catalogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is mentioned by name and item number in a 1987 Communiqu\u00e9 employee newsletter wherein a savvy store associate in Willow Grove turned a bunch of them into purses! One can imagine them not being great sellers and that might improve their chances! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After years of not knowing, this piece has finally been identified as the “British Mine Laying Glove”. This unique piece of military surplus was sold in Banana Republic Travel & Safari stores but was not featured in the catalogue. It is mentioned by name and item number in a 1987 Communiqu\u00e9 employee newsletter wherein a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12417,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128\/revisions\/12417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}