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    AERO LEATHER, NEW, BIKER JACKET, $350, SHIPPING INCLUDED WITHIN THE USA

    Seems like a J106 with maybe a different slant on the long zip pocket. Looks like an absolute bargain to me.
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    What is the Make or Brand of this Jacket?

    Bought this a couple of weeks ago. I don’t buy many originals now because they are hard to find in good condition in the UK these days. But this one is really quite good for its age and the hide is unmarked. The lining is good synthetic fleece and there are no stains or tears anywhere. The zip...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Happy childhood?
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    Windward Brand Leather Jacket Collection

    Really nice collection. Jackets from that period are hard to find in good wearable condition now. At least on this side of the Atlantic. Back in the seventies they were easy to find and quite cheap and I wore and sold on a few. But of course a forties jacket them was only thirty years old, the...
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    Conditioning/ Softening Vintage Goatskin Jacket?

    Goat doesn’t absorb most conditioners as readily as other leathers. It doesn’t absorb water as readily either of course. Maybe Renapur penetrates it better? Never tried it myself. I have heard good things about it over the years though.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Yes it’s been identified as a Links by Andrew above. The posts are in the wrong place really.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Are you going to do it yourself? Did you do the original modification too then?
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    First Aero leather jacket - Advise needed

    Me too. Patina is the deep colour you can look into on an old piece of well finished wood, and the brown oxidised film on old bronzes which should not be polished off. In wood the result of many decades sometimes hundreds of years of polishing in dust residues. It’s part of the character of the...
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    First Aero leather jacket - Advise needed

    I’m not saying that goat doesn’t soften and show more grain with age. Of course it does, and my AL black goat Roadster is now much softer and grainer after three years than it was new. But an Eastman M422 I had some years ago hardly changed at all and never softened much; and unlike most leather...
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    First Aero leather jacket - Advise needed

    I think it’s a mistake in any walk of life to take up an interest and expect to get it right and perfect the first time. It will almost certainly lead to disappointment and a sense of anticlimax if you obsess and plan and invest so much time and effort on getting it absolutely totally right...
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    Admiral A1 jacket - recent purchase (September 2015)

    I thought I’d post some pictures of a Headwind 37J1 jacket I ordered in early November after seeing them here on the FL. It was delivered a week ago after sitting in customs for two weeks over the extended Christmas shut down in the UK. I decided on the 37J1 version as it’s a bit more unusual...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    I wonder what a jacket like this would be worth compared to one in original condition? After all it can’t be said that these are theatre alterations really and they might just as well have been done post war to make for a more practical jacket. As to unique, my mother cut the body of an Irvin...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Wouldn’t have been made with the zip pockets would it, and the hood was not centre zipped in the originals? Is it a repro or is it original and those were added later?
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    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    To quote the great George Best who some of you will have never heard of. “ I spent my money on booze and birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
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    First Aero leather jacket - Advise needed

    Take a lot longer than that to get to what he means by broken in judging by the pics he put up.
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    Aero/LVC Rockabilly now called Rockafella in size 36, received today.

    You can see the grain on the pocket facings.
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    First Aero leather jacket - Advise needed

    Goat won’t change much over years. CLX HH will take years of hard wear to get anything like the two pictures as well. Personally I would call those jackets well worn and one almost worn out. But each to his own. The lighter CLX Steer breaks in quicker than HH in my experience. But if you’re set...
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    Leather U Boat Jackets

    I had an uncle who was at Jutland as a boy of fourteen. The difference between that sort of action and merchant ships is that the latter were sitting ducks at the start of the war. Even when the convoy system was reinstated they steamed at the speed of the slowest ship - no more than 8 knots...
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    Leather U Boat Jackets

    My father was in the RN in the war and served at times on escort duties for Atlantic and Arctic convoys. The Arctic convoys were much more dangerous because the water was so cold that men could not be usually be saved when they went in and death occurred after only a few minutes. They knew that...
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    Small breasted women in the Golden Era?

    Well, Hedy Lamarr’s last big hit was Samson and Delilah opposite Victor Mature. Groucho Marx was quoted as saying that it was the first film he’d seen where the leading man had bigger tits than the leading lady.

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