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    Dressing nice in the modern world can lead to trouble?

    The thing about Staffies is that they are the most affectionate and loving dogs with humans. It’s other dogs that they fight with. The cross bred pit bull types are the ones to watch out for because the kind of people who have those sort of dogs usually abuse them to make them nasty. As well as...
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    Block-Bilt: Website link-Never seen these jackets. Anyone?

    Tin-hat time.
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    Block-Bilt: Website link-Never seen these jackets. Anyone?

    I very much doubt that this company has anything to do with SB. The jackets are nothing like theirs and the website is written by someone who does not have English as a first language. Then, as was said before it has no contact information, which they would know is a legal requirement. Lot of...
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    Dressing nice in the modern world can lead to trouble?

    I was stupid enough to buy a Rolex a few decades ago, and I was nearly mugged for it a couple of times. After a few years I took to making sure it was covered up in the more insalubrious areas of North London when I walked through them. Once one summer I was walking my young Doberman through the...
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    New A-1/37J1 Jacket from Pop's Leather

    Very nice. Colour is very rich if it’s the same as the picture.
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    Connelly Steerhide Aero HWM.

    I have this Aero HWM for sale. I bought it recently for my partner but it doesn't fit her and it won’t fit me unfortunately though I wish it did. It’s a late eighties Connelly Steerhide in a small size. It’s been relined and the size label is missing but it measures like a 36 or 38 I’d say...
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    Video: Old Goat (hide) round-up. Actually a herd of Goats.

    Some lovely jackets there.
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    Goatskin. What's the skinny?

    As the others said. If you want to handle it you can ask for some swatches. I’ve had some quite stiff goat and some very soft so it does vary from tannery to tannery. SB had some lovely soft Italian vegetable tanned goat in black which I have a jacket made of a few years ago, but I think they...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    An older but similar expression was carpet knight. The sort of knight who preferred the ladies rather than the melee.
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    Block-Bilt: Website link-Never seen these jackets. Anyone?

    Very informative. Clearly written by someone who is not a native English speaker.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Or Johnny or John Chinaman which was very common in the UK and the US from around the early to mid nineteenth century. From calling Chinese men John it then entered the London vernacular, and right up to very recent times some people used the term John in the same way Mack was used at one time...
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    Eastman air comfort

    I got a batch of swatches from Eastman about six months ago when I was thinking of buying an Air Comfort, which I didn’t because of the stock sizes. He knew it was that jacket I was interested in because I did it by phone and he measured one. But the batch did not have any with warhorse written...
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    Aero Highwayman / Sizing

    Really not sure why anyone would want to buy a HWM if they wanted a different fit. As Edward wrote in 2012 above on this thread it is a boxy fifties British fit. The one I had made for me in a standard 42 was 25” pit to pit and I could get a very heavy jumper on under it easily. It was a bit too...
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    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Yes but GHT wasn’t, he was making the same point you just made when he replied to HD. So why quote him?
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    Death of a Newspaper

    That vinyl roof and the non standard colour was a bit of a disaster though.
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    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Don’t quite understand your point there. It started out as a Royal Enfield Bullet and became just an Enfield Bullet when made under licence in India. Still exactly the same bike.
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    Eastman (ELMC) Throws Their Hat in the J-100 Ring

    You’re entitled to be offended by whatever you want to be offended by, and it is a choice. But not to expect others to necessarily be offended as well. People seem to get offended all the time nowadays at all sorts of things, and you see them getting up online petitions to ban this and that...
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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    This is a nice picture in its own right. I love the warm tones of those old colour pictures.
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    Eastman (ELMC) Throws Their Hat in the J-100 Ring

    That isn’t so much a right as an unfortunate human habit. It’s a main reason why I avoid Twitter and similar speak your brains spaces like a plague. Though it can be amusing reading that a so called celebrity thinks that the earth is flat or that evolution is just an unproved theory. But I...
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    Eastman (ELMC) Throws Their Hat in the J-100 Ring

    I read the blog part where he writes about false flag operations and he does mention Pearl Harbour and the World Trade Centre in passing. The Pearl Harbour stuff comes from a long standing suspicion that the US knew of an impending attack because they had broken the Japanese codes and were also...

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