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    What Are You Reading

    I always said, if I win the lottery--or even find a bag of cash on the road--I will sit in my backyard and just read Thomas Hardy novels. He writes Jude at the end, gets hammered for it. Stops writing in his mid050s for the rest of his life (except poetry). His notebooks/journals are amazing.
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    FS R.M Williams Boots AUS Sz. 9G [US 10D] $100

    pm sent re: measurements. thnx
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    How many leather jackets do you own!?

    No wife, that's why... Vintage 1940s Italian Police DB 3/4 steer, wool lined, crazy Langlitz Cascade, a favorite Fox Creek Vented Bomber/Cycle, heavy, good for cold days Vintage Leather Shop flight/bomber goat, light brown, great Comstock limted ed. shearling (2), never wear Comstock black lamb...
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    Understated Flight/Bomber Jackets

    perhaps this, or one of their others... http://tinyurl.com/6lg2emj removable lining and perf vest. waist as in your other jacket, also goes below belt. the only geegaw you might not like is the zip sleeves, but again even that's understated and an asset on bike. thick leather but supple.
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    Iron Heart Jeans problem - and solution

    Yep. Well, if that isn't that what repro vintage is all about....handmade stuff to simulate the old days, but made from stuff today that wears out just as fast as the cheap stuff back then, or better: even faster, cause we can't wait. I think there should be a category called IV (Improved...
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    Iron Heart Jeans problem - and solution

    No question about a good deal. Maybe they are overdyed. Mine softened pretty quick just from one wash and a lot of activity. Wasn't sure about the extra pocket thingy on the version I have, but even like that now too.
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    Iron Heart Jeans problem - and solution

    I have a pair of those too. 100% agree. Good work pants as well. Especially after you trim off all the loose threads. That'll be the new vintage trend, not only hand-made, but the buyer gets to trim all thread ends. that's the business model of the new century, have the customer do all the work...
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    Iron Heart Jeans problem - and solution

    I work, jobwise, outdoors a lot, and my stuff gets the treatment...boots are scratched and gouged within days, jackets get scuffed, denim snags. So.... ...Like some of you others, I've gone crazy at times and bought stuff just "to see" what the deal is. I hated when the jeans went pre-washed...
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    Don't you guys hate it when the seller isn't quite honest?

    I've had issues. It's a gamble, but as others have said a small one. Over a couple hundred purchases, everything from work equipment to car parts to clothes, I've had four or five bad ones. Two involved fraud sellers (lists an item too good to be true, item never shows, got money back after 2...
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    Got a vintage coat that came with a few extras. An odor that can kill at 5 paces!

    ++You will never get rid of the smell completely except at expense--though you can lessen it by 90% and live with it. 1) Keep it separate, in light and open air--not dark closets, always out. 2) Buy a spray called Mold Armour--easy to find, at supermarkets and other places--follow directions...
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    Soft leather A-2

    For soft but strong, I like deer the best or drum-dye cow. Neither authentic--then you have to go goat, which is always nice. Lamb, as has been mentioned many times, is soft but one nail or branch or turn the wrong way and it rips, although years ago I had a soft Korean-made G1 "mall" jacket as...
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    Fox Creek Leather Appreciation Thread

    Good day for FCL, I also wore one today, a jeans jacket, also a 42 (which I am). Fits well over a heavy flannel work shirt.
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    Help With First Aero Order

    I would measure over the clothes you would wear underneath, more or less (literally), and let them know that. Now, to throw in my cents where it's not asked re: your #2: The only leather coats I've ever felt comfortable in over suit coats were either drop-shoulder (raglan sleeves) or else a bit...
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    Help with new aero leather cordovan jacket

    As I understand it, the vintage is the same basic hide as the regular FQHH, but then the hide gets tumbled and worked in a bit before being stitched into a jacket, so a tad softer from the get go. We've seen many pics of Aero FQHH in the forum, maybe someone was a vintage HH and can compare.
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    What Are You Reading

    Factotum I like; and Hollywood is a blast (even more so if one has worked there and knows the players).
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    Topcoats on parade

    I saw The King's Speech last night, and besides being a good movie, it had a fine parade of vintage 30s topcoats all the way through, including a 3/4 horsehide flight jacket with shawl fur collar in which Guy Pearce dashingly hops out of his open cockpit plane and hangs around for about 10...
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    Show me your favorite jacket

    This is my favorite ever since I got it during a trip up/down the Oregon Coast last year, a Cascade from Langlitz. This was my long-time favorite before then, one I got in Argentina some years ago, a carpinchon jacket from Casa Lopez.
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    Aero Cafe Racer plain back

    My feeling is to delete all breast pockets, unless you're going to use one for a pack of cigarettes or, as mentioned, want to mimic that "style"--but racers are all about functionality/modernity, not superfluity, so these days unless that cigarette pocket is functioning for you, why have it. I...
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    SOLD Aero Highwayman 42 Vintage Brown Steer

    PM sent.
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    Help with overcoat sizing

    What size are you in a suit coat, or measurements, Maybe one of us who is the same size can measure what fits us. Then you use it as a guide for ebay? There are really nice vintage topcoats there for sale all the time, often very inexpensive. e.g., http://tinyurl.com/2369ofk or...

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