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    Storing Aero horsehide jacket--hanger or flat?

    Lying down, hanging up, it's all the same. Hangers should be wide enough to go right into the shoulder seam to prevent distortion. I prefer to have my best ones lying down in a big bottom drawer. Not carefully arranged, just loosely laid out.
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    Yes rippsnorter you're right. Your OP is about your experience with Aero. But inevitably a thread like this will invite other bad experience too. Just like the thread: Aero customer service -can't be beat, invites people to share their good experiences. It's all a bit polarised really.
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    I think you misunderstand me. I'm all in favour of honest opinions being posted, good and bad, and I've also posted some. But personally I wouldn't want to start a shame page where I posted up a picture of bad workmanship for all to see. Not if the issue had been dealt with certainly. If I...
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    I really don't think it would be a good idea to start posting pictures of bad workmanship online like that. I take pictures of problems but deal with the maker and hope to get it sorted there. I did have a weird communication with Aero a few months ago which I mentioned elsewhere, where I sent a...
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    Experiences with leather jacket makers.

    Perhaps you should. The more opinions based on experience the better. After all many people read this forum and join it to get some idea of the best jacket for them, and how will they know without honest and sometimes conflicting opinions from people who've bought them?
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    Experiences with leather jacket makers.

    I agree Jeff and that's what I had in mind. Like I said good, bad, and indifferent opinions about any maker welcome. People will post pictures and comments about their new jackets if they're happy with them, but they wouldn't put up pictures of bad seams and puckered leather straight after...
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    Experiences with leather jacket makers.

    There is a thread running now about Aero which was started by someone because the thread where he posted remarks which were contrary to the general opinion was shut down after some abuse. That other thread was created as a paean of praise to Aero, and perhaps it was natural that some members for...
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    I don't agree with you there Baron. Big companies make what they make and take it or leave it. But smaller semi bespoke companies trade on the ability to make some changes to their designs. Obviously it depends on whether the changes make the jacket just a bit different to the design or a...
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    Actually to be fair there is at least one member here who does have a problem with Bill Kelso and posted complaints on their thread. Andy there responded politely even when other people who were not customers joined in and started to trash it.
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    Freedom of speech is a free for all unless someone is maliciously shouting fire in a crowded cinema or gratuitously abusing someone. The best way of dealing with issues is to be tolerant of opposing views and address them not the person writing them; and not to try to close down a discussion...
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    Sometimes threads are closed too soon on sites like this one in a rather Panglossian attempt to try to pretend that disagreements don't happen. As someone above wrote we are all adults and as long as we don't slip into vulgar abuse why shouldn't we be able to discuss issues openly? In this...
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    Yes I tend to look a the poor reviews on Amazon first, but the Amazon review system is pretty good in that people who like the product are as likely write one as people who don't. Many customers who write reviews of products elsewhere will only do so if they had a bad experience with a company...
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    Bad experience with Aero Leather

    Why not? The other thread has been closed so betron I'll reply to you here. I think you did call him a troll, and I think you called me one too. So if you or anyone else has a gripe with me do it in an open way and don't weasel around. I kept out of that thread until some contrary views turned...
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    Aero customer service-- can't be beat!

    Holly is always very helpful and pleasant. But how much she is still involved day to day in customer relations and how much she can really do is open to question; and as you say it then goes to the production side. My experience of dealing with number one son there on the phone was not good...
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    Eastman Raf Irvin jacket

    So Sax Rohmer was right all those years ago?
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    Eastman Raf Irvin jacket

    It's not just Eastman, Aero prices have risen by a similar amount in the timescale the OP mentioned. Most standard FQHH jackets rose from £425 to £625 in a couple of years and the newer models from this spring even more so. I suspect it's more to do with the pound falling against the dollar...
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    Leather jacket suggestions

    They have some in their outlet sale too very cheap. You might be lucky and find your size there.
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    Has anyone seen a Golden Era leather jacket made from Horween CXL FQHH or Steer

    Yes well... I suppose it's the pressure area size that's important. If they used a bag of sand with the material sewn into the bottom the surface area would be quite small. But when you slide you slide in your back, feet first usually after you've stabilised. So the amount of surface area is...
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    Has anyone seen a Golden Era leather jacket made from Horween CXL FQHH or Steer

    Some of those numbers seem a bit strange. Light goat, cow and denim holing after just about four and a half feet at 20 mph with only 75 pounds pressing down on them? I weigh much more than that and I wouldn't expect a pair of jeans to hole if I slid on my arse for twenty feet.
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    My new Alexander Leather Arkansas in seal goat

    Nice jacket and it fits you very well. I do like the AL goatskin. That's a nice lining too.
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