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  1. Edward

    Finds and Deals - Leather Jacket Edition

    SJC / Cathcart Grizzly, advertised as a "46", but on communication with the seller (learned to do that the hard way...), I think it's actually a 40-42, as 46" is the chest measurement of the actual jacket itself. On eBay UK for £150 BIN, which is less than half the original retail price...
  2. Edward

    Footwear to go with our jackets

    Nice shoes. 'Formal' enough for most contemporary weddings by any measure. Sure, black would have been more formal, but honestly I think it's OTT to buy shoes you'd not wear again for an occasion like that. These look great. Nice shape to them as well - they look a much older design than they...
  3. Edward

    Best A2 jackets in each price range

    Aero significantly revamped their A2 patterns for greater accuracy since 2012, and would most likely be where I'd go now. I was, a long time ago, looking at a Goodwear when they were about GBP100 over the cost of an Aero, but then the pound dropped markedly in value (long before it's 2016...
  4. Edward

    Patina or Damage?

    I don't know that there is any one, true definition.... for me, dirt is dirt; I would regard 'patina' as a kind of wear - where it shines at points of high wear, and lightens / the colour varies, and so on. Sun fading or darkening. I wouldn't count damage (but then even as a kid when it was...
  5. Edward

    The TFL Spirit

    For sure. I think a trip out to the GoldTop shop https://goldtop.co.uk/pages/physical-store could be fun. My wife has two names for this place. "Jackety Wars", and "Those %^&*ing Enablers!"
  7. Edward

    MA-1 Flight jacket

    Oh, which one was that? Candace is such a great character, she really deserves a series. Not least as the whole thing about branding and consumer culture has only become more relevant since it was written. (I'm currently reading Douglas Coupland's 2008 novel, JPod - similar effect).
  8. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Indeed. I'm not anti- the continuation of humanity per se, but I certainly don't see it as necessarily a positive thing either. I suspect if we're not an awful lot more careful with the planet, the planet will find a way to preserve itself by shucking us off.
  9. Edward

    MA-1 Flight jacket

    Yes, Marilyn did one of those USO tours of Korea, as memory serves. I've always wondered what happened to that B15C. If it was - as I suspect - borrowed for the occasion, either it came from QM Supplies, so some guy unknowingly got issued with the jacket Marilyn wore, or some guy did loan it...
  10. Edward

    Help with a Panama please

    THere really ought to be an 'applause' option in the available 'reactions' with the Lounge software.
  11. Edward

    MA-1 Flight jacket

    Indeed. I've read many claims online over the years of a USAF "blue MA1", but I believe the claimers confused a B15-C Mod for an MA1... The variations on the MA1 are interesting as they were so subtle and limited - the arrival of the orange liner circa 1962 (if memory serves), the later...
  13. Edward

    MA-1 Flight jacket

    The return to the green was made by the B-15D after many pilots in the field in Korea preferred the older, B15-B over the C when they could get one, green being less obvious if downed in enemy-controlled territory... There were B-15D-Mod jackets as well, even more indistinguishable from MkI...
  14. Edward

    Vintage evening waistcoats for white tie in London

    Probably having one adapted is the best bet. This is a very common problem nowadays. I've tried buying vintage, fwiw, but could never find an older one that wasn't too yellowed to use, even with significant treatments. You might also try Darcy Clothing -...
  15. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The last few days have seen my first flights since 2019. All a joy, as they were on a work project where I fly long haul, to Beijing, by business. Two seven/eight hour flights each way this time, via Dubai. On the way out I slept for much of the air time (having foolishly decided to stay away...
  16. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Been watching a couple of interesting things recently. Transatlantic on Netflix is interesting, several episodes in. It's about a bunch of Americans working with British Secret Services in Vichy France in 1940, smuggling Jewish refugees over the Pyranees and on to the US. Nicely put together...
  17. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    What riles me is when the mechanics of broadcasting like that dictate plot. Doctor Who has been a good example in recent years. At one point, a pair of popular companions were kept on by a good half a series longer than they had any real plot to deal with, purely so that their leaving could be...
  19. Edward

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    That variance always amuses me too. I always think of it as a light tan colour, I remember being very confused the first time I encountered American "khakis" being offered in a wide range of colours!
  20. Edward

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    I should bear that in mind when I'm next headed to the US. It's not something as would have occurred to me.
  21. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I can definitely confirm it's an Irish thing, whatever the Brits do. My brother went through it all. After being together from their last year in school, all the way through university and graduated, they had a couple of years of nothing but "so when are you getting married?" from far too many...
  22. Edward

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    Khaki, as in the colour? Is it something about the colour that carries this association (the way black trenchcoats had a certain association for some time after Columbine), or...?
  23. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Sounds like somebody accidently left the back door open and George Lucas got in again...

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