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  1. Edward

    I love the Fed IV!!

    Thanks. Interesting how the economics work out. You'd think it wouldn't be cheaper, but it must be. I remember hearing at one point in recent years the Northern Ireland Police force were buying the components of their uniform hats from one place, receiving them, then sending them back out to...
  2. Edward

    Other than Eastman, who makes a B2 flying cap?

    Do Fivestar offer theirs in black? Cockpit offer one too which looks nice - though also pricey like the Eastman. https://cockpitusa.com/products/b-2-shearling-gunners-cap?variant=42631628816627
  3. Edward

    I love the Fed IV!!

    That I hadn't thought of -admittedly, I was under the impression they sourced felt more locally than that, but could well be imported.
  4. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's been a real opinion-splitter over here. The main thing I found a bit odd was Rosamund Pike seemed much too young to be the actual mother of those kids, but I don't think she was supposed to be a step parent?
  5. 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...
  7. Edward

    King’s Umbrella Hat Company

    Looks great. Nice to see something different than the standard white in the liners too!
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  13. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's an interesting one. Gloriously creepy.
  14. 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...
  15. Edward

    Relic Hunter : Goatskin or Horsehide?

    Have there been personnel changes at that brand (whomever it is that actually owns it)?
  16. 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...
  17. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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...
  21. 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 -...
  22. 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...
  23. 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...

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