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    Vintage Look or Style

    Many of the better suits you might find were originally custom-made, and thus it's hard to find anything that will fit you perfectly. Up until the late 1980's or so incredibly talented tailors were to be found in most big cities and you could get custom suits in beautiful fabrics for very...
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    1910s/20s Rothschild Fedora

    If only it was an inch larger. Isn't that the famous "Poet's hat?"
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    I need HELP Cigarette Stench is Killing Me!!!

    If anyone wants to get rid of a smoky, smelly Aero, GW, etc, for next to nothin' in a size 38, I'm your man. I'm pretty smoky and smelly myself. What about those old Bucos? I seem to remember that their natural habitat (and owners) smelled of a whole lot more than just smoke.
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    Best Inexpensive Custom Leather Jacket Maker

    I completely agree. For around $500.00 Aero has some very tasty offerings on the secondary market. I've been checking it out at least a couple of times a week for the last eight or nine years. I'd either deal with them or with Thurston Bros., but I'd still like to see what Johnson could do for...
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    Best Inexpensive Custom Leather Jacket Maker

    (Dodging rotten fruit) Gustin! I'm not sure if it's still possible, but I remember Johnson Leather in SF had some offerings that were very nice.
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    Aero Shackleton Explored

    That's such a cool-looking garment (should say warm-looking). Every time I see one I feel this yearning: black Shetland turtleneck, Shackleton, overcoat, maybe. Not where I live, though. Sigh.
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    My first jacket worthy of this lounge, just joined - AERO!

    Great pics, and I know what you mean about the Aero. Wait'll you see it five or ten years down the line. Welcome aboard.
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    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    I'll bet your family member's only reference for leather jackets is The Fonz from Happy Days.
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    Coldest Weather I've been in

    In the forties here last night. People here have no idea how to dress for the cold, so lots of colds and flu. Everyone's complaining, but at least it's not "minus WTF!", as Worf described it.
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    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Very beautiful jacket. It reminds me quite a bit of the Finnish Friitala jackets of the 1930's and '40's, which, as I understand it, were often made of goat or sheepskin. Great designs and rugged-looking as well.
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    How to Wear White Bucks?

    Generally, I don't like wearing them with anything other than white or faded, light-weight jeans. The suit is for more formal occasions. I also have a seersucker vest that I wear, as well as a number of linen or linen-silk vests that are great for the warmer weather. Down here you have to be a...
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    How to Wear White Bucks?

    I have a seersucker suit and two jackets and wear them all the time in the sultrier months, usually with either blue canvas deckshoes or tan wingtips or weaves. Perfect for the tropics, especially with a straw hat. I couldn't wear the white bucks, though: I can still remember Pat Boone's version...
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    New Gustin leather Café Racer jackets

    Maybe what's bothering folks is that it's probably designed more with the non-rider in mind: the shorter sleeves were the first things I noticed.
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    New Gustin leather Café Racer jackets

    I agree, but I'm thinking that most young people today haven't ever seen a halfway decent leather jacket, plus they couldn't afford much more than what Gustin's offering here. Back in the day kids could pick up a nice leather jacket at Sears or Mongomery Ward for not a lot of money.
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    New Gustin leather Café Racer jackets

    Ha! It reminds me of that "An Army of One" U.S. Army advertising campaign of about twenty years ago in which you saw troops and tanks heading in one direction and one guy going in the other. My wife laughed and asked me, "Isn't he deserting?" They pulled the ad after a week or so.
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    New Gustin leather Café Racer jackets

    Most of the criticism above seems kind of non-specific. For $475.00 I can't think of another new steerhide jacket as decent. I'm with Fonzie on this one.
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    Anyone bought any boots from Aero?

    This has been the year of shoe-mania for me: just counting them up I've bought twelve pair, two of which are Loakes" Bedales and Bosworths. I thought the Bedales, being a G width, might be too big, but with a solid pair of socks they're fine - the Bosworths, a regular F width, are one of the...
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    Schott Asset

    This is a weird thread. I just get through reading through one guy's comments and agreeing absolutely with him, and then I read the next, diametrically opposed, point-of-view and I agree with him too. Must be getting wishy-washy.
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    List of Reproduction Vintage Clothing

    Ha! I was just going to mention them. I was thinking, "What? No Aero?"
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    New Aero Bootlegger v. 2.0 CXL Brown

    And there's a Cherry Bootlegger in my size right now on the Aero Sales page. BTW, it's hard to believe it, but your jacket will actually get even cooler-looking. All the best.
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