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Good quality but affordable first leather jacket
Aero crop up used on eBay here and there. You can also get a really good deal on their "apprentice made" jackets - some years ago, I bought a Highwayman "apprentice made" for about 60% of the cost of the regular line. As good as any, or sometimes (appropriate priced) with the sort of minor...- Edward
- Post #24
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Vintage British Brands?
Goldtop is another. Quite a lot of police style leathers floating about from them (especially boots) as they were a supplier to English police forces at at time, 60s/70s. (There are, of course, also the jackets available under the revived Goldtop brand, which are very nice, particularly if you...- Edward
- Post #6
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
I think it's just in some cases a sense of entitlement / belief that everyone else will stop for them. Of course, it also varies with culture. I see a lot better awareness of pedestrians in Beijing (where, as is the same across much of mainland Europe, a red traffic light means only "no straight...- Edward
- Post #15,098
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I think it's a second cousin thing--- tbh, though, I've never managed to get a handle on how that all works! We've managed to get some amazing shows in at the Garden over the years as the wife is very adept at booking as soon as these things open. The other thing of course is that we're happy...- Edward
- Post #30,844
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Studio 180 : Asteroid City Exhibition, London, July 2023
We weren't alone, but it was quiet. Mid-afternoon on a Thursday. Judging from the ticket sales page when I booked in, evenings and weekends were inevitably much busier. I tend to try to get to things when they're quieter, especially if I know I'm going to want to do some photos. The English...- Edward
- Post #10
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Oh, now you're asking. I enjoyed it enough that I certainly think it's worth paying money to see. In technical terms, I don't think it's a film that seeing it on the big screen will be as difference an experience as seeing the Indy picture on the big vs small screen. It's not an action-picture...- Edward
- Post #30,842
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Tremendous fun. I loved Alan. I think the last picture that made me hoot the same way at its satire on consumerism might have been Josie and the Pussycats in...2001? Barbie really nails it, though.- Edward
- Post #30,839
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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House husbands
Woody Allen skewed that sort of 'golden age thinking' very nicely indeed in Midnight in Paris. Of course, as I discovered years ago when I published on legal content regulation and moral panic, it's as old as society. I went back to Plato in that piece, as memory serves, but probably Ug the...- Edward
- Post #26
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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(Vintage) clothes and weight gain
I did exactly the same. I don't ever expect to get back to my university years when I was wearing a 32" waist. However, in 2010 I had a 38" waist; by 2018 I was wearing a 48". In 2022, teetering on need a 50" (and unable to buy anything I really wanted to wear, trouser-wise - oddly, vintage...- Edward
- Post #4
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Indianapolis 500 Team Jackets
Very nice! Any indication of date? I'd presume early 60s? Puts me in mind of the jacket Elvis wore in Speedway (1968), though his looks to me more cotton than nylon (hard to tell in photos sometimes)?- Edward
- Post #4
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Did You Drink Last Night?
Sounds like it would do the trick. In my end of Ireland, the Hot Whiskey was the go-to. One shot whiskey with lemon, cloves, and topped up with hot water. Some folks also liked to add sugar or a spoonful of honey. It's more pleasant than a Lemsip!- Edward
- Post #11,984
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Any vintage Zippo lighters collectors ?
I think they need to bed in to some extent, soak up the fuel from dry on the first run. If regularly used, you'll always be refilling it a little 'wet'. A zippo lighter has its limitations like anything else, though I've never had a refillable lighter that didn't work.... some years ago, I...- Edward
- Post #13
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Aero Hooch Hauler Thread 2022
Nice jacket. I like the Talman in the background too!- Edward
- Post #74
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I'm due a re-viewing of that. Saw it a couple of months ago for the first time. I enjoyed it, though with the caveat that as it's officially sanctioned and was made with the full support and co-operation of the EP estate, it's going to be limited in some aspects. I thought it was very strong in...- Edward
- Post #30,832
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Fedora
It does have the feel of a picture made with an audience in mind who are either assumed to already know the basic story (or trusted to figure it out / research it for themselves). -
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Indiana Jones V
That's the exact kiddy version of Temple I had. Always thought the choice of cover image was interesting - not the obvious one. (Particularly as, if memory serves, much of that version was told from Short Round's pov.) My Raiders novelisation was very similar, though I seem to recollect it was...- Edward
- Post #848
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The 80s, myth and reality?
I saw The Deer Hunter for the first time only this last year. An interesting film. The problematic aspects of it viewed at this distance are indeed apparent, though I don't believe were the artistic intent. It is inevitable of its time in some aspect, though. What really jumped out at me is how...- Edward
- Post #427
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The 80s, myth and reality?
In that regard, following in the footsteps of Star Wars, albeit doing it better. Though to be honest, while I can enjoy Aliens, I thought more highly of it when it was still the only film of the franchise I'd seen. It rather diminishes in stature when viewed as a mere action picture up against...- Edward
- Post #426
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
This past week I went to see both Barbie and Oppenheimer. On different days - I didn't do the 'Barbenheimer'. I am not become death, destroyer of Barbieworlds. Barbie is tremendous fun. A lot of great gags, both satirical and visual. The gag around Barbie's feet is wonderfully carried off...- Edward
- Post #30,828
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Fedora
That was interesting, wasn't it? I went in to see it last week knowing that detail about Oppenheimer being supposedly the only one to wear a hat. Given how clear that was as an intent, Einstein losing his must have been deliberate. Impressive portrayal by Tom Conti; roles that that need a deft...
