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  1. Edward

    Help! Quick opinion on Kreosote boots.

    Horses for courses, I suppose. There's a side to me now I'm really too old that regrets not having tried to make a go of it as an actor when I was young, but the bottom line was that job security, being able to afford to eat and a roof over my head, mattered. It's true a lot of people would feel...
  2. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I remember many years ago on a cinema trip with my parents seeing a Disney film called The London Connection. I assume there's no connection - other than maybe Disney glomming onto a popular soundalike name?
  3. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'd figured as much.... though tbh, that rather appeals. Cage's appeal as an actor in much of his work is akin to Bruce Campbell. It's a different style than realism.... Cage is a more OTT player in some respects... It's definitely deviated, albeit that in some respects it remains truer to the...
  4. Edward

    Most overrated movies?

    It's also a testament to the editor's work. While I still enjoy Tarantino's later work, it definitely lost the tightness of focus of Dogs or Pulp after he stopped working with the same editor.
  5. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    In the UK, the BBFC certification includes 'U' (Universal - suitable for all, "family films"), and 'Uc' (Universal, specifically aimed at children). The line they take for a U is that you can have the odd adult gag here and there if only an adult would spot it, but if they dwell on it long...
  7. Edward

    Aero Mulligan

    Have Aero dropped the Mulligan? It seems to have disappeared from the website, though the Maxwell is still there.
  8. Edward

    A2 or Perfecto

    If I was going to strip it back to just one leather jacket for all occasions, including with a collar and tie in place of a blazer, it would be either an Aero Bootlegger, or a Maxwell, or maybe an Everyman, in cordovan fqhh (for the colour rather than the horse). While it will probably have to...
  9. Edward

    1920-30's waistcoat with a "loop" between buttonholes

    Lovely piece. I see the slips are £30; I wonder what the waist coat is? I'd guess several hundred, given they stat at just over 2k for M2M, and just over 4K for bespoke (which would be a two price suit - one jacket, one trousers. Row level pricing, but then they're not really far from that...
  10. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I think it's an interesting part of the Dracula canon. I did like that it brings its own spin to it - it's a vastly superior picture to Werner Herzog's version of Nosferatu (though to be air I've only seen the English language cut - I'm told the German language alternatives were much better...
  11. Edward

    1920-30's waistcoat with a "loop" between buttonholes

    All been covered... As @Jon Crow has noted, it looks to me too that that loop has been designed for just the bar to go through. It's an interesting way of doing it that I've not seen before (even though I realised immediately what it was for). The norm in Britain and Ireland would have been...
  13. Edward

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Nice tip. I've been happy over the years to buy from more expensive makers for big items like jackets, but sometimes when it comes to bits and pieces like gloves, it's not always worth a big spend... On the matter of Five Star, I've also been idly look at their G1s. I've had a G1 patch project...
  14. Edward

    Most overrated movies?

    Partly it's of its time. Tarrantino was the hot new director, coming off the back of Reservoir Dogs two years previously. It was a refreshing change from a lot of the cinema that was around at the time - it was different. Cool dialogue. The playing around with timeframe in the narrative was also...
  15. Edward

    Auschwitz Anniversary

    Inevitably this sort of event requires a focal point, but I agree we should be careful to remember all aspects of these terrible events. The thing I've noticed recently is that we're seeing more focus on other elements of what went on - not "only" the deathcamps, but also the earlier...
  16. Edward

    Akubra Overload

    Yes, that's where I'm at with it. The Akubras I've bought since 2008 have been a Riverina, a Rap (porkpie), six Federations (two of them at least dlx), and a Campdraft. The ones I was likely to have bought from H gonig forward were a moonstone Fed DLX; a grey Cattleman and possibly a Territory...
  17. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just back from an early evening screening of Nosferatu - one of two versions I've seen recently. There's one on Amazon Prime in the UK (I think - unless it was Netflix?) I watched a few weeks ago. Also made in 2024, that version aims to have the feel of a 1930s, talkie remake of the 1922...
  19. Edward

    Akubra Overload

    Yes, I've been somewhat expecting a stunt like this since the UK site cropped up with its significantly higher prices a few months ago. TBH, all it really achieves is makes me more willing to do without that to support the designated local supplier. I accept that they're paying duties and...
  20. Edward

    Akubra Overload

    I missed this at the time, but it seems the winds of (negative) change have been blowing at Akubra under the new ownership for some months: https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/akubra-regional-retailers-hurting-as-iconic-aussie-hat-brand-cuts-ties/81facdfd-ebef-4fd6-9cab-ef65602cea4d...
  21. Edward

    Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

    It's inevitable, really. The Mod and Rocker scenes still exist here in London. The former tends to ebb and flow with fashion ime, while the latter is more consistent. But then when you look at the trappings of the two youth movements, both at their peak circa 1960-64, the rocker look is one that...
  22. Edward

    Akubra Overload

    I see Hats Direct has the same on their website.... that's concerning. I have a Fed IV in Moonstone to be set aside for me when the new stock comes in in February. They offered to do that for me when I emailed asking when they'd be next in a few months ago; I hope they're still able to honour...
  23. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes indeed. Alas, we've seen a lot of that round our way in the last couple of years since we had a new mayor elected for the Borough who very much took the pro-car lobby onside, and deleted a lot of the traffic calming measures previously introduced in residential streets and near schools. Said...

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