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  1. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    Read 'Suttree' and 'The Orchard Keeper'. Stu's going to have to start quoting McCarthy. This is how a future interview might go: 'Tear apart a jacket? Some people might, but not us. Makes no sense. Here at Lost Worlds we are deeper yet in our plotting. Deeper than a man may reckon in...
  2. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    Try Melville's 'Benito Cereno'. It's brief and both funny and unnerving.
  3. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    If the storms here keep hitting, I'm going for a walk in my Cafe Racer Aero. I like the battered seal hide more and more and I'm going to take it out for a breather even if it's just to get some groceries.
  4. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    C'est impossible? Is that what you're telling me, friendo?
  5. zebedee

    What Are You Reading

    I'm re-reading Cormac McCarthy's 'Suttree' and two histories of subcultures over the past 50 years. Also starting China Mieville's 'The Last Days of New Paris'. I liked his 'The City and the City' up until the end, which I anticipated for quite a while.
  7. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    Sometimes I listen to monkeys.
  8. zebedee

    What's your 'grab-and-go' jacket...?

    I've spent so much of my life living in really hot temperatures that I'm almost cold in anything less than 20C. When I came back to the UK the first Christmas I'd spent here in a long time really was painful. I'd not been that cold in about 5 years, although the benefit is that I don't suffer...
  9. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    It was the Ph.D tangent that did it. I really like Melville; although Moby Dick is a tome, it's likely that readers serialised their own reading. Without writers like Melville and Faulkner we'd probably not have McCarthy's Blood Meridian: 'They were watching, out there past men’s knowing...
  10. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    I want to see her in a LW peacoat and then I'd try damn hard in my pidgin French to get her to take it off, particularly if it was my size and she couldn't run very quickly.
  11. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    Although nothing beats Jerome K. Jerome's English characters who, in order to seem sophisticated, directly port English phrases into French. One of them, when feigning surprise, likes to exclaim, 'Bien je jamais!'.
  13. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    That's because it's a franglais approximation of 'All mouth, no trousers' for a giggle.
  14. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    The failure at Ph.D probably means that someone saw through the BS that was allowed to get through at BA standards. Tout de bouche, pas de pantalons, to drop in a bit of French phrasing. I still reckon the peacoat LW does is great, but the bloke sounds like a fool.
  15. zebedee

    What's your 'grab-and-go' jacket...?

    Aero 50s HB in goat- it's lighter than HH but still substantial. At the moment, though, it's a bit too hot for a jacket.
  16. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

  17. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    'Eunuchry'. You have to chuckle. Stu is invested in - culturally and sartorially - your balls, the lack thereof, their significance and their relationship to leather. The ramble, the dangle, the absence, that sad space, nostalgia for vanished men and their imagined, vaunted testicles. Lost...
  19. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    It was an interesting interview to read- it comes across as painfully pseudo-academic, though. I think that that's what gets me about the website, too - it's like an unconvincing person's idea of a convincing person's stance.
  20. zebedee

    Favorite jacket? Owned or dreamed of.

    I want a Himel Canuck in brown with that grey/black/green lining. I don't need one, though, and the prices are too high for me for an item of clothing. I'd only buy one used if I could shift other jackets I own as I've got too many and it's all a bit daft. The Aero Maxwell I have in Cordovan...
  21. zebedee

    Is Simmons Bilt still open?

    My SB was great. My Aeros have also been fantastic, and, while I prefer Aero's designs (this will invite some jostling), SB jackets are solid. I'm 95% an Aero customer to the exclusion of other brands (they fit what I'm willing to spend), but I think that SB's Statesman is a very nice jacket...
  22. zebedee

    Is Simmons Bilt still open?

    I'd leave it a few weeks. If you've sent that many emails she/the company either isn't equipped to fulfil the order yet or there's not enough of a regular crew to process things. If they're a small company (and they very much are, people say), in all likelihood the pandemic has overwhelmed...
  23. zebedee

    Is Simmons Bilt still open?

    A lot of businesses are not fully open. Some small operations have very limited staff. There aren't offices full of folks reading emails in many places, but there may well be someone on the phone, or someone checking messages. Aero are taking new orders (I think) but alterations won't be...

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