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  1. Edward

    I love the Fed IV!!

    My first Akubra was a Fed DLX in the dark brown, bought new in 2008. Still got it. Softened beautifully. Couple of moth nibbles, but still loads of life left in it. Picked up a second db dlx 'for best' recently. Also have a fawn and a carbon grey, both standards iirc. biggest difference I notice...
  2. Edward

    King’s Umbrella Hat Company

    Looks great. Nice to see something different than the standard white in the liners too!
  3. Edward

    Post New Hats Here!

    No photos yet, but I recently received, via eBay, a straw Stratoliner. I'm still keeping an eye out for other colours and the hemp variants on the Bay, but this one is the silver-grey Florenti Milan. Synthetic, I believe (which works for me; the only two straw hats I've ever managed to...
  4. Edward

    The long quest of finding a fitted leather jacket

    Some folks have ordered jacket direct from Aero in the past with a tapered fit if they have an unusually high chest to waist drop, which is worth considering. A good place to start imo would be seeking out a few brands you like the look of (check out the threads on here, also worth looking at...
  5. Edward

    leather type 3 options

    I've noticed that in other Schott models too. My 618 is neat on the shoulders, but works fine on the waist as there's no particular taper to it (c/f to an Aero MC jacket I bought used which never did up at the waist as it retains the original 1940s very marked chest to waist drop - in a size 42...
  7. Edward

    My Aero 557XX Type 3 jacket

    Fit looks good. It'd be interesting to see earlier denim styles given the same treatment, like the Type 2. Fun fact - when I interviewed Ken for the Chap back in 2018, he mentioned this style, saying that it had felt like a bit of an outlier in Aero's "Nothing After 1959" approach, until they...
  8. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's an interesting one. Gloriously creepy.
  9. Edward

    Want Indy Jones jacket with the correct drape that stays more to the sides.

    It's been a while since I check out the eighties Bonds - you remind me, though, that Dalton, for all he felt like a breath of fresh air at the time, also dated very badly as Bond. Connery hasn't, though I suspect in part that's as when I came to those they already had preserved a retro-cool...
  10. Edward

    Relic Hunter : Goatskin or Horsehide?

    Have there been personnel changes at that brand (whomever it is that actually owns it)?
  11. Edward

    Want Indy Jones jacket with the correct drape that stays more to the sides.

    Roger Moore stands as a warning from history there. Of the pre-Craig Bonds, Moore was the one they really went 'fashion' with, the result being that his films now look the most painfully dated of all. I expect the costume people wanted to present Bond as 'modern and thrusting' whereas M is...
  13. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Gentrification is a difficult one. Here in London it has hit a few neighbourhoods over time - though usually (especially the case with Soho) the people complaining about gentrification don't actually miss how it was 'untouched', rather the first wave of gentrification that made those areas...
  14. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Yes, it's a fun reimagining of a lesser-known story. I liked how they played with the supernatural in it. Redoing the author as a younger American instead of an English woman closer in age to Poirot was fun. I enjoyed the other films well enough. for me, Suchet was the perfect Poirot. Ustinov...
  15. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Ecommerce as the death of physical retail stores was much predicted at the height of the dot com boom, though I think we're only really now beginning to see that happen. Innovations in delivery models and all sorts helped, but doubtless a huge factor in simply breaking people into the new habit...
  16. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That sort of thing happens here in London too. My local supermarket started with a half a dozen of them. Then they cut half the regular tils and now they have thirty or forty of these. It's exacerbated by the fact that of maybe a dozen traditional tils, they rarely open more than two at a time -...
  17. Edward

    Want Indy Jones jacket with the correct drape that stays more to the sides.

    Yeah, the only way I can think of to consistently have that look in real life, other than to binder clip the jacket inside, would be to have it cut too trim to close properly at the front. Just not an option. I've always been amused by how Wested describe the differences between the Hero...
  19. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Oh, I *loathe* it when they release a series only an episode or two at a time. What I hate most is that they dress it up with the pretence that it's somehow what the viewers want, that we all like the good old days of waiting for something week to week no TV.... when the truth is that it's...
  20. Edward

    Hi new here. Is wearing a leather jacket basically an invitation for trouble?

    Never did get those. I mean.... how do you show you're not in an MC? well, you just don't wear any club colours. Simple. Those three-patch 'lone wolf' things only suggest one of two things to me - somebody who really wants to be in an MC but can't cut it for whatever reason and this is a way of...
  21. Edward

    #8 Shell Cordovan boots w/dark Brown Jacket?

    Try it and see, I can't abide mixing black and brown leather, but imo cordovan goes with either.
  22. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The best of what I watched, film-wise over Christmas: I mentioned Belfast before. It came up in passing on the phone with my folks. The events depicted are of course all set half a decade before my birth, so I was born into the period of conflict. My dad, on the other hand, was in his middle...
  23. Edward

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    He seems to be a very Marmite proposition or most. The Poe-Heads I know hated it as lazy and superficial in its links. I can see where they were coming from, but they're not the target audience. This was aimed at people who wanted something popcorny which nods to Poe as a pop-culture reference...

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