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  1. zebedee

    Aero Jacket Sizing Help

    If you size up by two, the fit will be fine. The most wearable jackets tend to be on the Highwayman/LHB side. For me, cafe racer jackets need to be 'upped' by at least one size; at two sizes, a size 44 café racer jacket is as comfortable and wearable as my size 40 Highwayman and I can wear a...
  2. zebedee

    Aero Jacket Sizing Help

    If you want to layer, a size 42 or 44 is going to be the way to go, I'd imagine. The slimmer fits need a gut measurement to be very definitely taken into account. I can take a size 38 or 40 in a Highwayman (boxier) and it's fine. A size 42 cafe racer on me is tight (to the extent that I wore...
  3. zebedee

    Moonshiner with a sunburst back - thoughts please

    Yeah, I've developed a liking for Aero's black leathers, too. I have a Plainsman in black jerky (not sure about it, waiting for a bit of patina, although got it primarily because I wanted something longer than the old Highwayman to bash the bejesus out of in appalling weather) and a Café Racer...
  4. zebedee

    Moonshiner with a sunburst back - thoughts please

    I think a Moonshiner (standard pattern but with strapped cuffs) would look good in battered tan. Or black goat. This is a terrible affliction...
  5. zebedee

    Moonshiner with a sunburst back - thoughts please

    Yeah, I'm starting to think of something less 'adorned', too. Something in battered tan with a button front. Hmmmm.
  7. zebedee

    Aero Half Belt deluxe fit check

    It fits. Looks fine.
  8. zebedee

    Moonshiner with a sunburst back - thoughts please

    I was thinking of this and wondered if it would work. I want a button-up jacket with a sunburst back and thought of either the Mulligan (with the chest pocket removed) or the Moonshiner. I reckon battered tan with off-white stitching. J.
  9. zebedee

    Horse vs Steer vs Goat Premium Half Belt

    I think the brown CXFQHH is their best hide, even though I think that Vicenza and goat both wear more comfortably. I didn't have to wait long at all for the CXFQHH to break in. Going for a walk in the rain sorts it. Aero's mid-weight hides are heavy enough for the majority of my subsequent...
  10. zebedee

    Horse vs Steer vs Goat Premium Half Belt

    It's a really nice dark brown, though. Russet seems the way to go. It'll look outstanding.
  11. zebedee

    Horse vs Steer vs Goat Premium Half Belt

    Vicenza is slightly pebbly, like goat, flexible and lighter than fqhh. It has a drier hand and will take longer to patina, but is great when it does. Dark seal is really nice and blackened brown is great, too - those are the two that I know about. Goat is cheaper, highly abrasion-resistant...
  13. zebedee

    Horse vs Steer vs Goat Premium Half Belt

    If you go with the darkest seal goatskin possible, it will probably go with anything.
  14. zebedee

    Ideal location/climate for leather jackets

    Somewhere cool to cold. If I were choosing where to live based on leather jackets, though, I'd check myself in for a serious talking-to :) I'm in Hong Kong. It's jacket weather for about three months a year, but I'd not be anywhere else for, as they say, all the rice in China.
  15. zebedee

    Horse vs Steer vs Goat Premium Half Belt

    Goatskin. Failing that, Vicenza as it's almost as light and flexible.
  16. zebedee

    Your all time fav Leather Jacket (1-2) you own or have owned

    I have the odd theory that if a person bought a well-fitting leather jacket from any of the reputable manufacturers and then wore if a lot for 5+ years without permitting himself to buy any other leather jackets , that person would have formed a lifelong keeper jacket. Originally, I had two (a...
  17. zebedee

    Post pictures of your jacket collection

    There is another Ikea rail behind it for shirts, shoes, boots and suits. It seems reasonable until you take into account that some of the other Aeros are in the UK, along with additional shirts, shoes, boots and suits.
  19. zebedee

    Waiting Too Long ruining excitement?

    I admire everyone's patience: as soon as the waiting time is more than two or three months, I wouldn't order in the first place. The only thing I'd wait longer than that for is gestation :)
  20. zebedee

    What is your favourite lining? Post pictures!

    Red cotton in a blackened brown cafe racer. Made of WIN:
  21. zebedee

    What is your favourite lining? Post pictures!

    First is a Cornish tartan from Locharron: Then Troy blanket lining in a 1920 Work Coat. The lining faces outward on the collar: And lastly is another Loch Carron tartan - Scrimegour Ancient: The Cornish tartan in the Highwayman is definitely the favourite lining out of the three - it's...
  22. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Suskind also wrote another novella called 'The Pigeon' and a play - all very different (although I'm not sure about the play). The soundtrack (Berlin Philharmonic) is amazing. The novel's great because of how deliberately and unapologetically Postmodern it is (and how stylistically plagiarised...
  23. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Ha ha, the tan steer hide is a great hide, but it is very thick and it'll need to be worn on a pretty much daily basis in the colder weather (and the warmer weather, indoors). It's the thickest jacket I've ever had.

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