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  1. Edward

    What are you wearing today??

    I'm well pleased with it. It came up smaller than anticipated, but for this sort of more "formal" presentation - rather than dressing gown type wear - it works fine. Lovely thing to wear, it does wonders for my shoulders! The amusing thing was that *everyone* I knew there knew it was me on...
  2. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I had issues with downloading much to watch on this current trip to Beijing, so yesterday I had Star Movies running on the in-room TV in the background. Caught a couple of films. The live-action Dumbo was really cute. They've taken a very different approach to the narrative in this one; rather...
  3. Edward

    Native American Parka circa 1910!

    Unless these had a ritual purpose to them rather than the purely practical, I suspect it is probably that the skills have been lost. As much as anything because I doubt there would be any use made of the rest of the seal these days, and it would as a result be rather wasteful to take one from...
  4. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It certainly had its uses. The Scout leader in our village took the family to France for a month on a camping holiday one year in the early-mid eighties. Unusually, they didn't phone home once a week (as people still did back then), and nobody knew where they were. His mother died while thy were...
  5. Edward

    Johnny depp unfinished raw natural leather jacket from crock of gold.

    It would make it much easier to get one! I'd be surprised, though, as it'd be so far off their business model, and Ken has never been keen on chasing the celebrity association angle for publicity (despite having some serious hard-hitters as regular customers). TBh, I find this refreshing in...
  7. Edward

    Johnny depp unfinished raw natural leather jacket from crock of gold.

    It definitely has the look of RRL to it. I know Depp has also worn Aero in the past, but this isn't close enough to any Aero model I've ever seen to be one of those, nor does it have any sense of their house style.
  8. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    On the plane yesterday, I watched Babylon. It's an interesting picture that falls into the 'Hollywood films about Hollywood" genre. It's not as clever or funny as Hail Caesar, though equally it's not unsufferably smug and also poorly plotted as La La Land. I'm sure the real experts will find...
  9. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Risque for its time, certainly. It would be interesting to know more about the writers' intent; around 1969, there was a whole new generation of GIs impregnating local girls, this time in Vietnam, as depicted - in a far from comic manner - decades later in Miss Saigon.
  10. Edward

    What are you wearing today??

    So, the dear old Rocky Horror Show (no 'Picture' - this is the stage musical, not the film which followed therefrom) turns 50 in June 2023, and so the Powers That Be decreed that 25th May would be the night on which they would host a Gala Performance to celebrate the old girl. The Master...
  11. Edward

    What are you wearing today??

    It is a quick favourite - I'll definitely buy more from Albert Prendergast. Slightly warmer than our favourites from Samuel Windsor's previous incarnation, but not too much so for this time of year. It's a wool-cotton mix, so it has a much nicer texture than the manmade fabrics that a lot of the...
  13. Edward

    Cowboy Boots

    I like these a lot - the perfect blend of a bit of bling, but not "too much" for day to day wear. These are something else! I've never seen a pointed toe quite like that before - really distinctive. Love these. One of the closest I've seen to the pair Meatloaf wore in Rocky Horror Picture...
  14. Edward

    Wested Leather Co. experience

    My last order from them was last July - one of their newer model of scratch-made Indy bags. Very nice indeed. I initially thought it might be too small (especially with that internal divider), but while it's too small for an A4 magazine, it's perfect for a novel, camera, phone, mp3 player...
  15. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Back in the arly mid eighties, doubtless largely as a result of the same, CB Radio was quite the fad in parts of the UK, Ireland and Europe. Looking back, it was very much a forerunner of online social media. My cousin got a CB from our grandmother for passing his eleven plus, as then did I in...
  16. Edward

    Women's leather jackets

    Go Go Red Power Ranger on a day off....
  17. Edward

    New Schott 118 - Leather Dye Transfer Issue

    Oddly enough, the only, better leather jacket I ever had that did this was also in cordovan Horween CXL FQHH - my Aero Bootlegger. Never had it with other colours in the same leather. For me it stopped as the jacket broke in over time; I think a Pecarding also helped.
  19. Edward

    Aero Highwayman weight advice

    The black one in that photo is a standard HWM, but with the yoke front instead of plain front with breast zip pocket. The latter (in the reddish shade in your photos) is what you'll get if you order a standard Highwayman with no variation in spec, so watch out for that if the former is what you...
  20. Edward

    How would goatskin/capeskin work on something like the Aero Hooch Hauler?

    Aero's goat would be an excellent hide for that sort of design (and probably closer the sort of heft 30s-50s originals were made from than a hefty steer or horse). Capeskin I suspect would be just a little too lacking in boy to look quite right - I think that's why Wested's copy of the Aero...
  21. Edward

    Mystery Moto Help - Aero?

    The Undertones were of course from 'Stroke City' itself - officially nowadays referred to as "DerryLondonderry", so there are probably a couple of interpretations of that available. ;)
  22. Edward

    Aero Shackleton Explored

    Nice to see some full leather ones. I've wanted one for a long time, but I'd been holding off until I lost weight - which I now have. I think I want to get up there and try one on first - though I might also have a nosey into Bolt London (an Aero stockist near home) and see if they have any to...
  23. Edward

    Mystery Moto Help - Aero?

    As an aside, you'll often see these (and a few other, similar British jackets) show up on an eBay search for "Aero", as those distinctive 'coffin' puller zips that were used on quite a few British bike jacket brands in that period were branded Aero zips - nothing to do with Aero Leather...

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