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  1. Edward

    Temporary leather paint?

    Nothing I know of. that I could guarantee... maybe paint it on some bit of fabric shaped like old punk patches, then attached them temporarily with some light-duty double-sided tape?
  2. Edward

    Green Leather Jackets

    Thanks - looks slightly longer than a Schott, but not that odd, elongated fit so many modern bike jackets are where the waist tabs fall markedly below my actual waist! Hoping to get out to visit them this Summer, though they're a bit of a trek from the train. Could be a fun trip for a TFL...
  3. Edward

    Green Leather Jackets

    I wonder if they're using the original 60s / 70s patterns, which would have been smaller then? I'm not clear on the relationship between the current owners and the original brand . Goldtop was out of production on the consumer market for a long time before these guys, but I don't know if the...
  4. Edward

    Green Leather Jackets

    How did you find the sizing? They seem to me to come up a bit small (much like the 618s), I 'm eying a 617 as a replacement for my Schott (which I've come to a view is just a smidge too tight for my preferences); I vary between a 44 and a 48 in most things, but it looks like I'd need a 50 in one...
  5. Edward

    Green Leather Jackets

    The ones I've seen were very decent - I'd have put them on par wit my Schott 618.
  7. Edward

    Formal Wear Primer

    Excellent. :) Look forward to seeing what you get. (As an aside, isn't it interesting how, owing to keywords being such a thing, the internet is pulling us in the direction of having defined terminology for so many things that haven't really had a strictly defined name or parameter before?)
  8. Edward

    Formal Wear Primer

    HMn. Digging around suggests that technically it is the flower itself is the nosegay (common usage in my circles has always been to refer to the whole thing or the vase as a nosegay). Can't find any alternative other than 'nosegay holder' or 'boutonniere vase', though. If what you're looking...
  9. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There is that. My wife buys this sort of thing a lot. We occasionally use whole onions and slicing them up rips the eyes out of both of us, no matter what we do. These pre-sliced ones save that trouble and generally work out no more expensive either. The lack of wastage is a big plus; even if we...
  10. Edward

    Formal Wear Primer

    It's a nosegay.
  11. Edward

    The Worth Of A Penny

    American guitar players will also often refer to "diming" an amplifier. Took me a minute when I first discovered that saying to twig it meant "turn it all up to 10" (i.e. the maximum. Unless your amp is *special* and goes to eleven).
  13. Edward

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Thanks. Sainsbury's (UK supermarket brand) TU Clothing label from about four or five years ago. They do some surprisingly nice vintage bits here and there. I have a knit polo with a zip neck in a very 40s style that the wife picked up there for me a few years ago, as well as a couple of very...
  14. Edward

    Addict clothes leather vs Lewis leathers

    I've only handled one in person, at Clutch Cafe. It was not a jacket I'd have bought due to the double dealbreaker of being too modern a style for me (their version of a SuperMonza, a design that came in in 1978) and too light (their equivalent of Lewis' sheep). The manufacturing quality was...
  15. Edward

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    They're a different couple from the awful pair who kicked off a row when they visited those botanical gardens a few years ago, aren't they? I find it interesting when people choose this sort of lifestyle. I'm fine with it as long as they don't go down the route of thinking it makes them...
  16. Edward

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Cathcart London denim battleblouse. Quick selfie while the wife was in the shop and I was outside minding the dog.
  17. Edward

    sterkowski caps

    There's a fair bit of re-enactment over here, though probably not to the same level as in the US. Tends to be more in the "living history" variety the more modern it gets - you don't tend to see simulated combat for anything 20th century, for instance. I get the impression there's significantly...
  19. Edward

    sterkowski caps

    Funnily enough, I had always assumed it was an Americanism I'd picked up somewhere online, but it seems it might be more of a UK military term in origin. The concept of 'stolen valor' doesn't really translate over here - on the whole, even in Britain (and much moreso back in Ireland, on both...
  20. Edward

    sterkowski caps

    You might like the cotton Fear Naught berets they have at South Pacific Berets. I have two of those that get worn in Summer on either cloudier days or days when I won't be out in direct sunlight much (to be fair, I do try and avoid the sun whenver at all possible). We have quite a few...
  21. Edward

    sterkowski caps

    I think the one that it took me a while to crack the confidence with was the beret. (I still don't dare wear one when I'm working in Paris, but I do in London without a second thought - and I would in the south of France where they are still regularly worn, rather than in Paris where I have seen...
  22. Edward

    Crush Cap as Daily Wear?

    I certainly would not return that one - it looks great! If you're used to a cap with a smaller footprint than these 20s / 30s styles, it can feel strange to begin with, but once I got used to my first one, I could never go back. I love the 'oomph' that the larger crowns have. I like eing ble to...
  23. Edward

    Jim Green custom shop

    Thanks, that is a good deal. The shipping certainly isn't expensive for a pair of boots at that distance. I've become careful about shipping of late, prompted by a bit of a shock surprise when I ordered something from the US - standard postage from the US to the UK has shot up with changes at...

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