You know, I was shy to start wearing a hat, many years ago now, and I decided that if I was going to wear it, then I needed to "earn it." So although I'm inclined, since the infantry, to live some degree of outdoor life, every year, I nevertheless make sure that I sleep outside a few nights with...
Howdy folks,
Another set of photos for you.
Specs: Size 38" Unfinished Horsehide
Button Fastening
Olive Contrast Stitch
Sleeves 25.5"
Back Standard 23.75"
No Red Tab on Pocket
Olive Cotton Drill Lining
Two Inside Patch Pockets
Fitted with Campfire Label
I'm 183cm and about 78kg, 83cm waist...
Interestingly enough, I had to get the zipper replaced a year or two ago--I used to be heavier during covid, and I suppose their was tension at the bottom, but the stitching came out and it was impossible to seat the zipper into the pull. Do they not have them anymore? Also, #thanksEU, had to...
I usually wear a backpack, so you can see the darkening where the straps touch the jacket; also, there are "wing" creases on the back panel from the leather bunching under the pack.
Trying to get a photo from the photographer, but in the meantime, here's me at the barbershop over a year ago, and then 2 photos from May 2022, showing the break-in and wear. The jacket is much darker, as you can see, super soft, and heavily creased.
My order specs were: Standard size 38, olive stitching, battered Seal Horsehide, all leather back (should last longer), and herringbone tweed lining. I literally do yard work/forest work in it, though, and lean against brick walls and rocks and the like, so I have no regrets about the...
Aero sent me replacement buttons, but I decided not to use them because I fear that the same would happen.
I bought these instead; and I see there are similar sets available for a good price on eBay. As I mentioned above, 25mm fit well and suit the vest; now that I've had them for a few...
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I had a seamstress do it, although she did as I would have done were I to do it myself--she sewed small flat black buttons on the inside of the vest so that the leather doesn't tear.
Brass buttons are working out great, they look sharp, and I wore the vest every day at the school where...
Apparently, as I learned, there's what seems to be a "cardboard heart" to the button, or somesuch, around which the leather is wrapped--so be warned :) It's a fantastic vest, and I do wear it out now that I have my metal buttons in the woods and elsewhere in the rain, but with the original...
If I were to buy it again, I’d probably get it shorter, too, since all my jackets are shorter, and sometimes I want to wear it with a jacket. But I’ve adopted it as my “teacher flair,” since I’m a school teacher, so now it lives happily at school :D.
My original buttons were leather football...
Howdy all,
Just wanted to share a picture of my full leather-back Shackleton vest, to which I had added authentic, Royal Navy, brass buttons (24-25mm).
For those considering the vest, the default buttons are sensitive to water--I don't recall being out in the rain with it, but somehow, each...
GF is still sleeping, but zipped up, flat-on-the-couch measure is shoulder: 41cm/16.14", and ptp: 44cm/17.32" (jacket flat, underarm to underarm), or if you measure just the front panel ptp:, 41cm/16.14".
Hope someone that you know might be interested ;)
Howdy again,
Buy this jacket that my GF didn't want, and help me get another Aero for my collection :) Hoping to get a little more than Aero would offer if I sent it back, and because of the new price, new post!
It has literally only been worn twice, once in the winter when she got it, and to...
Morning!
My arm has been acting up and it's killing me this morning, so measurements are taken with the jacket on my couch, not on me, sorry about that:
—Armpit-to-armpit: 21.25" (to vertical armpit seam)
—Shoulder seam to seam: 17.72" (wasn't sure how to measure this, but measured above...
It’s late, and I’m to bed, but I’ll try and remember in the morning! It feels on me to be slightly roomier than all the three size 38 aero items I’ve owned.
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