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  1. Edward

    Lewis Leathers elbow patch

    Best might be to drop Lewis a line. Depending on when it was made, quality was not always what it is now. The 70s was not always the best period for Lewis jackets. The Aviakit label alone was used in the sixties. AFAIK, it's pretty normal in periods when both Aviakit and Lewis logos have been...
  2. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Are those the Joan Hickson ones? Nobody has ever been as good in that role as her. She was in The Mousetrap in the West End decades ago, when Agatha Christie visited. Christie told Hickson "You're too young for it now, but one day you'll be my Miss Marple." There is a monument of sorts to...
  3. Edward

    You know you are getting old when:

    I have my undergraduates sign in to tutorials on paper rather than waste time during class filling in the database online. It's amazing how many of them will often have to borrow a pen in order to be able to sign in. I mean, all my work coms and contents are on-screen too, but the idea of being...
  4. Edward

    How many new jackets do you have coming (and how many potential ones)?

    Useful to know re the holsters, thanks. Looks a great product!
  5. Edward

    How many new jackets do you have coming (and how many potential ones)?

    Interesting - stuff on their website looks great. Kind of thing I'd look at as an alternative to a jacket in warmer weather. Is the zip an extra / custom feature? The pistol pockets are an interesting idea; I wonder if those could be adapted as more 'normal' pockets. I like the idea of...
  7. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    'Mafia' seems to be a term that has evolved to mean 'elite', 'hardcore', 'gatekeepers' in a particular corner / interest / business. I suspect the original connotations have long gone given how readily so many self-label that way. I can appreciate to some it still sounds as odd as something...
  8. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The wife and I went to a sales pitch from a holiday club place a few years ago. It wasn't for us in the end, but it was actually quite pleasant - they didn't go for the aggressive hard-sell, and while we never used the 'free taster' stay voucher they gave us because of covid, we did get...
  9. Edward

    The best PTSD-movies?

    It's definitely one possibility. There's also a more extreme interpretation that would say the whole shoot-out itself is a fantasy, and never happens - Travis just goes on being a cabbie. It's comparable to American Psycho in that regard, if moreso the book (which preserves that uncertainty)...
  10. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Quite probably; it's an approach as old as time, though.
  11. Edward

    Himel Bros jacket, 1st winter update

    Eh, tbh I don't think Lucas was ever even that. He's a guy who has had some nice ideas, if only he'd left other people to bring them to fruition. I think I'd have preferred him as a producer rather than any kind of creative. I do find it kinda funny , in a dark way, how he's so resistant to...
  13. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The vast majority of this sort of thing is a result of "think of the children" initiatives. Sometimes child protection is the intended aim, other times it's a trojan horse. Nothing new; there are records of Socrates giving off about the dramatic poets' corrupting effect on the young...
  14. Edward

    Himel Bros jacket, 1st winter update

    What a shame (but how very on brand) that Lucas didn't put in anything like the same effort to the script and direction that he did into making it look nice!
  15. Edward

    Himel Frobisher (positive)

    Yes, that's pretty much the model I'd go for - though with one of the leather or nylon straps, rather than the metal bracelet.
  16. Edward

    Himel Frobisher (positive)

    I know in some watch circles they are looked down on as the 'budget' option, but if I came into the hundreds of millions and could justify Silly Money On A Watch, it'd be the Tudor Black Bay I'd want, and not the Rolex for exactly that reason: the Tudor has that older aesthetic that Rolex no...
  17. Edward

    Identifying army jacket

    It looks to me to be patterned after a US Army M65 Field Jacket. I'm guessing by the look of the label and the camouflage trim inside that it's a civilian market version, though it looks to have all the main details there.
  19. Edward

    Elephant Skin questions

    Thanks, that's very helpful to know. It's the waist region that causes me trouble with a lot of these things if they are a "tailored" fit that assumes rather more of a chest-to-waist-drop than I can boast (though it's nice to have one of those again, rather than it be a 'flare' as it was for...
  20. Edward

    Any opinions on the color scheme for these two wallets?

    I prefer the all-blue too (though I find the two-tone 'bolder', fwiw!).
  21. Edward

    What Are You Reading

    Not long back from a fortnight in Beijing for work, during which I managed to find more time in which to read for pleasure than I have in a long time. I devoured the latter two thirds of Coupland's J-Pod, Jim Moir (better known by his stage name of Vic Reeves)'s autobiographical Me:Moir, and the...
  22. Edward

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    I can't remember who it was - Ken or Denny, maybe - but I remember somebody from Aero at one point saying that they supplied all leather jackets to Levis in 'as new' condition; any distressing done prior to sale (as memory serves, Levis did both distressed and undamaged versions) was by Levis...
  23. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068370/ Early 1970s horror, medling kids go where they shouldn't, unleash dark forces, suffer consequences. Entertaining. Notable more for being probably in and around the last wave of horror cinema (and, indeed, much...

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