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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Anyone with any experience with their horsehide and pull-up leathers? Looks like they have listed some new jackets (new to me at least). https://www.fivestarleather.us/products/men-road-master-half-belt-leather-jacket-brown-pull-up-leather...
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    First Aero Leather advice - lightweight CXFQHH or Pinnacle?

    The lightweight CXL FQHH is too light in my opinion, resembling 12-13 Oz denim. My premier Highwayman almost feels like a wind breaker jacket. Simply no heft at all. Regular, mid-weight CXL FQHH is much better.
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    Aero Hooch Hauler - Brown CXL FQHH - 2 month review

    The only requirement for customs duty exemption is that the goods must be manufactured in the UK: "When are goods duty-free? Payment of customs duty is not required when the goods are manufactured in the UK (originating product) and are sent from the UK. However, value added tax must be paid...
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    Aero Hooch Hauler - Brown CXL FQHH - 2 month review

    Goods manufactured in the UK are exempt from customs duty in the EU countries. Just need to have a 'certificate of origin' on the sales invoice (Aero always adds it, I think). Never paid any customs duty when ordering from Aero/SB. You just have to tell DHL that they are dealing with UK-made...
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    Aero Hooch Hauler - Brown CXL FQHH - 2 month review

    Sorry, not to ruin the fun or anything, but I think you got screwed by the customs or didn't request the customs duty to be deducted (it can be done with UK-made goods - saves you 10%). I am also based in EST, my total was 652GBP - and I only paid 168 euros extra (i.e. VAT + DHL fee), letting...
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    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Terrific fit/jacket!
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    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Aero premier HB. The jacket’s quite all right, but I should have gone for the Sheen. Real nice CXL FQHH, though
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    Schott factory sale

    Only factory sale? No online sale?
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    What is this forums most popular brand and jacket?

    SB "very much hated by the majority"? So who's the "majority"? Seems to me there's only a few rather vocal users who never miss the opportunity to diss the company. Plenty of people happy with their SB jackets.
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    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Aero HB, pretty much out of the box. Nice jacket weather, too (10 °C in the evening)
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    Good quality but affordable first leather jacket

    Yeah, around 4%. Plus the DHL fees, but it's a tiny amount.
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    How many new jackets do you have coming (and how many potential ones)?

    Received my 30s Premier HB from Aero. Fits like a glove, the measurements are absolutely spot on. This batch of CXL FQHH is much heavier than I expected (feels like armor), but I think it will settle after a week of two.
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    Good quality but affordable first leather jacket

    In addition to 24% VAT, Finland also has a customs duty / import tariff for cloths, which is 12% (just checked from tulli.fi), so ordering from the US is madness indeed. Fortunately the customs duty doesn't have to be paid for goods manufactured in the UK, so Aero is still a good choice.
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    Good quality but affordable first leather jacket

    You can find a size 42 Aero Highwayman here (only €460): https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/aero-leather-highwayman-lederjacke-braun-uk-42-m-l-pferdeleder/2516254201-160-3519 Says it has a 58 cm pit-to-pit.
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    Good quality but affordable first leather jacket

    No good options in mainland Europe. Excluding second hand, the cheapest option would probably be Simmons Bilt (their leather jackets start at £575). Another option would be to wait for an Aero sale, but it might take a while until it happens again.
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    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    I think this one looks much better than your Aero cafe racer!
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    Anyone ordered from Leder-Jack.de?

    Those cheap Schotts on that site are not manufactured in the US. Only the more expensive ones (618, 618HH, 519, etc.) having the "USA import" tag are.
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    Ask a Question, Get An Answer About Outerwear

    Does anyone know if Aero has longer production times during the summer? During the last sale in October, it only took a few days from 'production' to 'order complete', but now it's been weeks.
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    Aero Jacket Sizing Help

    I remember someone here saying that Aero uses slightly thinner CXL steerhide these days (1.3-1.4 mm vs. the old 1.7+ mm), so what you are saying makes sense.
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    Horse vs Steer vs Goat Premium Half Belt

    The lighter-weight CXFQHH indeed almost wears like lambskin, no stiffness whatsoever. I chose brown CXFQHH for my premier HB as inspired by zebedee’s CXFQHH jacket, but it has not gone into production yet.

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