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  1. Edward

    Red Wing Iron Ranger Sole and Heel Repairs

    Does sound steep. Over here it's be about £150 for that option, with a new pair of Iron Rangers now double that.
  2. Edward

    House slippers

    This is the sort of thing I prefer: Pretty much every big British brand makes them - it's possible to spend hundreds on house slippers, it turns out. I'm usually perfectly happy with a pair of Clarks at about £50.
  3. Edward

    House slippers

    I have two pairs of slippers currently. One pair the wife bought me a few years ago - they're a blue suede style that are in the moc direction, but have a saddle with a penny loafer look. Als have another velvet pair my parents bought me a while back. Dunlops, like these: Can' fault them...
  4. Edward

    Red Wing Iron Ranger Sole and Heel Repairs

    So, checking in with the hive mind on this one as I'm second guessing myself. The photo below is of the soles of my old Iron Rangers, which I bought new in I think the spring of 2013. As you can see, the heels are -finally, after over a decade of hard wear, needing repaired. Where I'm second...
  5. Edward

    The TFL effect with buying and selling

    Worth having a look at what ebay sold prices are where you are, but if the soles are good on the underside, that looks like a very decent price for these. Round here I think they'd sell on eBay for about £150 or a bit more.
  7. Edward

    The TFL effect with buying and selling

    If they're in decent condition, GRAB them. Even in a deep seasonal sale I've never seen trickers go new for less than about £300. For an English brogue shoe, you won't find better without going full bespoke and spending at least four grand.
  8. Edward

    The TFL effect with buying and selling

    It's all relative to the individual of course. What has helped me keep it manageable for me over the years (living on an academic salary in London aside), has I think been that I treat my jackets as wardrobe rather than as a collection. I only buy what I will wear, and I try to be reasonable...
  9. Edward

    Chinese leather jackets

    I've had cheap or free shipping with a lot of smaller things I've bought from China - fountain pens mostly. Usually it does mean waiting three weeks, or often a bit faster. I gather with those sorts of small bits, there are subsidised shipping programmes for ecommerce sellers in China, which...
  10. Edward

    Goodwear...

    These sorts of threads have cropped up at times over the years with all sorts of different businesses. All we ask from behind the bar is please let's not indulge in speculation that cannot be evidenced.
  11. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's amazing the changes that have happened. I do way more of my own admin work in academia now than would have been expected of any of my tutors back in the 90s. Of course that's partly education being overtaken by the profit motive, but also the fact that so often now it's just so much simpler...
  13. Edward

    "Affordable" brands offering Americano / Western style?

    I'm in much the same position!
  14. Edward

    "Affordable" brands offering Americano / Western style?

    Olderbest have some lovely stuff, though - like Bronson, Labour Union, Non-Stock and Bob Dong, everything bar accessories like caps stops one to two sizes below what I need. None of them seem do do trousers with anything north of a 38" waistband, while jackets mostly stop at a neat 44. It's a...
  15. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Probably also the last era in which this sort of office and business hadn't changed in nature significantly since the 40s (aesthetic superficialities side). A dozen years later, and word processing, email, the web would have changed everything.
  16. Edward

    Practical Question - Tan Horsehide for Bike

    For a bike, I'd go the same. Goldtop would definitely be where I'd start from that perspective on this side of the Atlantic - armour protection to CE certified standards, without compromising the oldschool aesthetic.
  17. Edward

    I wore one jacket for the whole winter!

    That would be nice, yes. Maybe have something done up like one of the multi-piece leather patches the repro guys do for A2s and the likes.
  19. Edward

    I wore one jacket for the whole winter!

    It's so hard when we lose them. I've had, as an independent adult, my two cats go in my arms six years apart, and our beloved Mimi rescue cockapoo slipped away in her sleep at my feet on the bed a year ago this coming Sunday. I try not to think about gonig through it again in due course with...
  20. Edward

    I wore one jacket for the whole winter!

    To be fair, where I grew up the burn was usually from the wind. ;)
  21. Edward

    Leather Jackets, Tattoos and Psychic Armor

    Collins is definitely an inspiration for what I want - it's the style I like. If I can hack something small, I'd like a fairly large Lady Justice down my right arm. The first one, though, will hopefully be a development of a Death or Glory design with a nod to bot Johnny Strabler and The Clash...
  22. Edward

    Leather Jackets, Tattoos and Psychic Armor

    I've had a design in mind for my ink for years, but never quite had the disposable to hand at the right time. Need to get onto that, I'm 50 already... It's not leather specific at all for me, but being happy with what I'm wearing definitely adds a confidence level. An old friend remarked years...
  23. Edward

    I wore one jacket for the whole winter!

    Sound right. I grew up in the NE, went to university in Belfast. Despite the West taking the brunt of it coming in from the Atlantic, it was plenty wet and changeable there. The worst of Belfast rain is by the time it's on enough as you'd bother with an umbrella, 90% of the time the wind make...

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