Edward
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Interesting. They offer black goatskin. Luckily, I don't like black, so I can't be tempted.
Wonder where they source that. I looked at a black Aero in goat at one point, but was told (by Amanda when still with them) that it wan't available. Whichever tannery they use now (don't Aero get their goat from Horween?) must be doing it.
Did anyone read the About Us? Seems like he's coming out fighting.
That was the holding page for a bit. Sort of jars a bit with the 'brushing it off as beneath me' message, the way some of it is phrased. But hey ho, the courts will make a call on it sooner or later, and then hopefully all concerned can put it behind them.
In this day and age, I'm interpreting that as being designed with those featuring a "less than athletic build" in mind.
Yes, that's what I fear, as usually that means my own size is crazy baggy, while anything smaller managed to look and/or fit wrong too.
Is it just my untrained eye or do those offerings look rather bland, character-less and ... dare I say it ... boring in their design? They almost look like what one can buy at the local mall or in a mid-range department store like Macy's or Belk.
I just don't see anything special there.
The limitations of what the market wants might be part of it, but yes in the long run I think they'd have been better served distinguishing their product a bit more from the, eh, direct competition. Maybe they'll distinguish themselves by offering more 'all-included' alterations now that Ken is keen to move away from so much customisation.
Interesting the Stuart is absent (I'd love to see that in black goatskin). Was there ever any resolution as to the question of ownership on that one? It would have, to my mind, been more of a variation on the norm. As I recall, Aero took it off their line because it was one of Will's designs, but there was a query that it might have been specc'ed up by a US customer?