{"id":13057,"date":"2021-03-31T00:29:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=13057"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:21:50","slug":"australian-puttees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/australian-puttees\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Puttees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Photos from an expired eBay auction, these 1942 surplus Australian military wool &#8220;Puttees&#8221; were sold in Banana Republic stores with the &#8220;Discovered by Banana Republic&#8221; tag on them.  These are the wraps that soldiers wear around their forelegs and are still widely available. <a href=\"https:\/\/talesfromthesupplydepot.blog\/2015\/04\/20\/australian-jungle-puttees\/\">More about Puttees here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees1-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees1-1140x762.jpg 1140w, 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https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees4-848x568.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees4.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees3-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees3-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees3-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees3-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees3-1140x765.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees3-848x569.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/puttees3.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This last photo is not of a Banana Republic version, but it&#8217;s the same item, shown for more context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus-500x500.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus-1000x1000.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus-1140x1140.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus-848x848.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteessurplus.jpeg 1155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteephoto.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteephoto.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/putteephoto-300x265.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.varusteleka.com\/en\/product\/australian-puttees-surplus\/19378\">Varusteleka Suppliers<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from an expired eBay auction, these 1942 surplus Australian military wool &#8220;Puttees&#8221; were sold in Banana Republic stores with the &#8220;Discovered by Banana Republic&#8221; tag on them. These are the wraps that soldiers wear around their forelegs and are still widely available. More about Puttees here. This last photo is not of a Banana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13058,"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\/13057"}],"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=13057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13064,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions\/13064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}