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  1. Edward

    Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes "Undercover Cap"?

    Looks very much like a US crusher / army cap (even those little metal buttons on the sides holding the strap on). Possibly army issue -I'm sure I read somewhere that general Army issued ones, as distinct from USAAF, had a taller crown? Not hard to debadge and leave. Those side buttons could well...
  2. Edward

    You know you are getting old when:

    There's something that truly horrifies me about the notion I could, were I so inclined, legally sleep with someone just over a third of my age.
  3. Edward

    A little help please

    Done! :) Half an eye n Strats on eBay myself. Picked up a couple of the modern straw ones (one Florentine, one Hemp), lovely things (oddly, the Hemp Special Edition one is nearly an inch taller in the crown - same factory-shape c-crown, so it's not that....), very pleased with them for Summer...
  4. Edward

    You know you are getting old when:

    Oh hells, yes. I'm at that point now where I have very experienced colleagues who are twenty years younger than me - some of them I supervised at PhD level, or taught them at postgrad, or even - horrors - their undergraduate classes. It is now only a matter of time before a student approcahes me...
  5. Edward

    Jim Green custom shop

    Interesting lookig stuff. Just had a hunt on their websites, an I see some nice boots. Quite fancy the look of some of their workboots and the hiking boots. (I was recently looking at some Danner Mountain Lights, but thse are crazy money in the UK for a shoe I'd only use for very specific...
  7. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The Personal Information Protection Law 2021 is one of the most extensive data protection laws in the world, though in the digital environment of course it's debatable what the limits to enforcement are. There are certainly a lot of places I'd be wwary of sending my personal data, both West and...
  8. Edward

    Crush Cap as Daily Wear?

    Maybe worth trying a cobbler / dry cleaner / tailor? That's probbly what I'd try.
  9. Edward

    Crush Cap as Daily Wear?

    Worth giving it a go to let it settle first. I have a couple of caps like that where the crown sits remarkably well pulled down in front like a regular eight panel. Not stitched down gives it the option of a look a bit more like the crusher / Brando type caps as well. I like the flexibility...
  10. Edward

    Fit check: Aero Dustbowl size 42, Cordovan!

    I'm with @MrProper - the fit doesn't look bad to my eye (though I definitely wouldn't go bigger; if you want close-fitting, a pre-war style is a better bet than 50s), but it's slightly shorter in the body and the sleeves than I personally would go for. Arm fully down by my side, I like a sleeve...
  11. Edward

    Crush Cap as Daily Wear?

    These look great. Plenty of body in the crown to get that pre-war oomph, so often missing in modern caps. Slightly so, yes. The ones based on a fisherman style and the motorcycle style ones, the originals did have a smaller bill than milspec too. I wonder if they evolved that way because the...
  13. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    His earlier work really did not appeal to me. I did however pick up on the film version of The Gentlemen hen it his my streamers, as much as anything for the cast: Charlie Hunnam is always good value. Though the star turn was Hugh Grant as exactly the sort of low rent, sleazy tabloid journo...
  14. Edward

    Addict clothes leather vs Lewis leathers

    I'm sure I remember reading that at least at one point Thurston also specced all their stock Aeros 1" longer in the body than Aero's norm. This may of course have changed, but if memory serves correctly it was to do with many of their customers riding bike that involved a crouched, racing-type...
  15. Edward

    Heavy weight denim crotch wear

    I think the last time I wore out the knee of a pair of jeans first, I must have been twelve years old. Since then, it's always the upper inner thigh that goes. I can generally get two years' hard wear out of a pair of jeans before that. When it does happen, I patch them with some iron-on denim...
  16. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I gather research is now showing human memory isn't what it was now we have such ready access to information. Appropriately for this thread, what annoys me most about it all is that it's ruining pub quizzes - too many people just sitting googling the answers instead of relying on their...
  17. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I hear you on that. We currently have a storage unit we need to clear out. It's billed every four weeks, which occasionally hits us twice in one Paycheck, and that is brutal.
  19. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think a lot of decisions to push to online payments, direct debits and all sorts are typically driven by people who aren't acting out of any ill intent, but simply assume norms that aren't such for everyone. About a decade ago TFL announced plans to phase out the Oyster card in favour of...
  20. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It's been a long time coming. As far back as the eighties, BT were looking to make their public call boxes as card-based (remember those "Phone Cards" with pre-paid credit on them? Quite collectable now I gather if you kept any) as possible. The reason being that 90% of the vandalism of phone...
  21. Edward

    Leather Jacket on ebay/etsy?

    The links put me very much in mind of an operation that may have the business notionally based in the US, but which is manufacturing in, and shipping from, SE Asia, usually but not exclusively China - or possibly also South Asia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India. The sizing certainly suggests China...
  22. Edward

    Why do thick leathers keep getting recommended?

    Indeed. I remember a few years ago, we got trolled on TFL, and had these sorts of posts you're talking about (albeit rather more vicious) made on their own forum by a bunch of bodybuilder meatheads. It's certainly worth bearing in mind the experience of being on the receiving end when tempted to...
  23. Edward

    Addict clothes leather vs Lewis leathers

    I lean to the view that with Lewis it's best to stick to the hides they originally produced them in - which would be the sheep and the flat black cow. Willing to be corrected on this, but afaik horse is a newer thing from them, brought out when horse became fashionable in the last 20 years or so...

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