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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    It’s an interesting account but in the final parts of the last instalment it does start to slip into noticeable partiality IMO. It would be better to have each witness say, rather than some who seem to be with WL claiming. That’s what always happens on TV news and current affairs programmes...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Well yes that I can believe. I didn’t mention that jacket because I thought it was a sized up Aero, unlike the A2 type. Although I would have put it at just one size from guesswork. A 42 HWM fits me the same as a 44 Roadster and measures up the same. The Roadster was bought a couple of years ago...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    :eusa_clap
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    The patterns will be more about fit than design. You can’t copy a copy of an old design and be held accountable for it. Unless you copy it exactly and the replica has some individual features which you also copy. But most of the older Aero jackets are pretty much exact copies themselves. KC does...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Yes, I though that was odd. Particularly the 99 pence patches. What was the point of that?
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I have one AL sales jacket which I bought in the opening offers. It’s a pretty good jacket in black goatskin. Really nice skin BTW. It’s a pre war French cycling jacket rip off design really. Like the leather jackets which people think of as Luftwaffe pilot’s jackets. it’s similar to an aero...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    There was once a famous manager of Liverpool FC by the name of Bill Shankly, who said that football wasn’t a matter of life and death, it’s much more serious than that. He said it with a straight face too. But he was joking.
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Bit OTT all that. They are all just leather jackets. I’ve bought a fair few new Aeros and a lot more used ones over the years, and almost all have been moved on now. But the jacket that I am most happy with was made by a long time Aero machinist who went over to AL. She used her skill with...
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Whatever did happen with Mark Moyle? The last I remember was that he was to be investigated, but the speculation here was that he hadn’t committed a criminal offence. Was any action either criminal or civil ever taken against him by anyone?
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I’m not second guessing anything, and no civil case has take place as of yet. But since you are so close to Aero maybe you can tell us if one involving AL as opposed to Will Lauder is in the pipeline?
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    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    There’s been a lot of passion about both the companies over the last few years, and a lot more from the partisan supporters of Aero it must be said. But for what it’s worth I reserve my real passion for more important things than clothing. My clothing doesn’t define me in any way as far as I’m...
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    Alexander Leathers

    No time Toulouse.
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    Alexander Leathers

    Actually You have no idea what I think about the one time British Empire. But I bet I know more about it than you having spent several years of my childhood living in a then British colony in Africa. At the time I just accepted it as normal but later in my teens I came to understand what empires...
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    Alexander Leathers

    Fuzziness of language leading to fuzziness of thinking about history is my point. The Scots and the Irish were fully involved in the British Empire BTW and did well out of it. Long before that the Normans invaded and suppressed the English and invaded Wales and then Ireland from Wales. You...
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    Alexander Leathers

    Merkat Saeson in Welsh is the same as Sassanach. It was just Saxon in those languages, it came to be applied to the English as a nation later. In Scotland it meant lowland Scots at first. Although that is an oxymoron really.
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    Alexander Leathers

    The term Celtic nations is an historical and linguistic one in reality. The influence of the Celts on language and culture far exceeded the actual number of ethnic Celts who settled on the western fringes of Europe in the bronze age. The majority in the country we now know as Scotland is...
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    Alexander Leathers

    Interesting if so. Then it is a new hide and not just the old CT renamed? A way for Horween to get more CXL like hide out? I think they find it hard to keep up with demand for the stuff, or a way around a contractual arrangement for the supply of CXL perhaps? Just speculation... BTW it's a...
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    Alexander Leathers

    Well each to his own. The swatch I got about four months ago was not at all to my taste while the CXL steer was. Is it combination tanned? It's described as chrome on the site. Like the other one which is straight chrome according to the Horween tannage list.
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    New to the Stable, Aero long half belt

    Lovely colour, and just almost starting to break in. Once it does break in and molds to you it will be an excellent jacket.
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    Alexander Leathers

    It seems to have replaced the FQHH chrome tanned one they had listed. Whether it's any different and just has a fancy name I don't know. CXL is combination chrome and vegetable tanned while this is just chrome tanned. I did have a swatch of the previous chrome tanned FQHH and found it very...

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