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    My amazing Alexander Leather B3

    Nice jacket BTW and very cheap too.
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    My amazing Alexander Leather B3

    The leathers are similar to Aero. Mid weight smooth and jerky HH with steer too if you like. I’ve had swatches of both types and the Aero and AL hides are very similar. Never tried on an AL A 2 but I did try a Memphis which uses the same pattern I think, and the armholes are high like Aero’s. I...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Am I? Actually I’m far too old and cynical in the ways of the world to give a monkey’s about any of this or about what the more paranoid among us think. What odd sort of mind would think that I was trying to deflect anything? From what? To what? Some members of the congregation here seem to...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I seem to remember that you took a great dislike to him. Other than a little unsophisticated knocking marketing and childish boasting, I don’t remember him doing all that much wrong when I was visiting here regularly. I think he did start to escalate his critique of the opposition’s leather a...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I thought he was entertaining in an unselfconscious sort of way. He blew his own trumpet, but then which company doesn’t? English wasn’t his first language and that played a part I expect. But for all that he was very knowledgeable. The attitude of some who attacked him was much worse.
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I refer you to the answer I gave earlier. As they say in the other place.
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Not really. I was expecting the trial to take place in March which was the last I could find out from googling the local papers. But then March went by and I searched now and again to see what was happening and saw this. So here I am. Hardly been here for over a year until a week or so ago...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Eastman doesn’t do custom work. At least they never did, and they seem to have gone off on a strange direction with their civilian jackets. I haven’t been to their site for a while though. I do have an Eastman Irvin type which I like, and I’ve had others in the past like their M422A, but I don’t...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I’ve been a customer of both too and I haven’t had one. I expect he means recent Aero customers may have received them and they are also AL customers so told him. It may just be a few at that. But of course Aero customers are very often AL customers as well, and most aren’t dedicated fans of...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I came upon that statement yesterday when I was looking at their site. It seems like a perfectly normal legal statement to me. Clearly they are prepared to defend themselves in court if it comes to that. I should think they have been following this thread too judging by what they wrote about...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I think this is better. But then I’ve always liked the surreal.
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Sorry I missed your post just then. Yes, that was before 2004 presumably, so he was a bit light fingered then. But I dare say some others helped themselves a bit because that’s what happens in workplaces. The systematic stealing of higher priced items seems to have begun later if I read the...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Here we go again so I must be a friend of his. Why must I? Because I try to understand human nature rather than condemn in a knee jerk way? How do I know what is a fact? I’m reading the account and that’s what I inferred from it that’s why. It is a bit hard to follow since it jumps around...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I hope you are not saying that I am one of the people defending him. Because even a quick reading of what I wrote can’t be taken as that.
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Even if you can’t grasp the difference between understanding and condoning, do try not to get personal. You know what happened to the thread the last time you did.
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    From my reading of the evidence he started selling some stuff on eBay at around the time he took over which seems to have been patches mostly. But it was only later in 2007 that it was established that he started stealing expensive items. His relationship with the artist DD is quite interesting...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    My surmise from reading all this is that WL was taken on as a youngster and taken under KC’s wing as a trainee and later a junior partner, and the relationship was fine when they all worked together. But that when he was appointed to run the business as MD for the Calders he felt he was not...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Okay, fair enough. I misunderstood him. I’ve owned very old leather jackets that for all I know someone stole years ago, or maybe were even killed wearing. Jackets are inanimate, they have no morality.
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Why? Because it might have been labeled as something else and it might have been CXL steer? Chromexcel steer is a very good leather BTW. I’ve got shoes made from it and a jacket made of lighter weight CXL steer.
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Yes, I agree with that and Paddy’s post earlier. Some of the gloating here has been distasteful. HD cannot be accused of being an apologist for AL either. He is well known for championing Aero.

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