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  1. rocketeer

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I don't know if this has been brought up recently but I have only just read it. I am not trying to bring up political rants but good on President Trump for trying to re establish Merry Christmas over Happy Holidays as the foremost festive greeting at this time of year.
  2. rocketeer

    Negative comments about your jackets from others

    Cafe Racer! A name that has been bastardised to encompass mostly black leather jackets with a mandarin collar and a centre zip, a little bit like the sage green nylon MA1 being known as a Bomber jacket. Historically a cafe racer is a street legal representation of a racing motorcycle design...
  3. rocketeer

    Negative comments about your jackets from others

    Yes Edward, it was in the very early 1980s. Last time I was there(years ago) it was called Phlip and owned by Iranians. Aero as a shop in Battersea was one of the few selling wartime stuff and a few Hawaiian shirts etc, I just looked around really as the Rockerbilly stuff did not interest me...
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    Negative comments about your jackets from others

    You would be surprised, a lot of them do do it. I also have an original Lewis Leathers jacket that is so bad I am taking all the good bits off and selling them singly for other jackets restoration. An avid collector said to me "I would be destroying a piece of history" I knew he wanted it to...
  5. rocketeer

    Footwear to go with our jackets

    For me it's usually colour coded, black jacket black boots, not often shoes though even with A2s. My personal faves are Loake pull ons, sometimes referred to as Chelsea Boots, RM Williams, Russell and Bromley's. All basically the same designs. i often do mix up the black and tan but it will be...
  7. rocketeer

    Negative comments about your jackets from others

    I really don't like dressing 'Vintage' every day, as you say just wear what you enjoy. Usually I will mix some vintage with some modern, it can work you know and look better in my opinion than a pure vintage look. I really don't want to go out looking like a 50 year old John Boy Walton though I...
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    Negative comments about your jackets from others

    Give it 'character'! Oh no it won't, I had a leather tub chair which the cat had clawed the back of, little bits of leather sticking out everywhere. Luckily The chair sat in a corner so the damage could not be seen. The cat was called Big H after a bouncer I knew but thought of changing his name...
  9. rocketeer

    'Fluffy' Aero Sheepskin - how long does it take to wear down?

    To those talking about lanolin in fleece, if you handle freshly sheared wool it is very oily, you really would not want to use it in a raw state, as in un spun that is. Though talking jackets of course this is a fleece on hide so to speak, so the hide would still have to be tanned, washed and...
  10. rocketeer

    Negative comments about your jackets from others

    My Mrs hates a lot of my older 'Style' clothing as she likes me to Blend in and look anonymous. £250 in TKMaxx and I would be perfect. A2s NO, Sheepskin flying jackets? "Well you are not a pilot are you". Ray Ban Wayfarer's "Who wears those, you look like some old Rock n Roller(Buddy Holly)" er...
  11. rocketeer

    New Eastman B-15 - great trip to the London pop up shop!

    I have the Aviator bag and use it regularly as a weekender. Shame it's not leather though Aero do a nice one of those. AAAAAGGHHHH Eastman and Aero in the same house, FIGHT:mad::mad::mad:. To be honest the Eastman bag does its job and is nice and sqauashable if stashing in confines spaces, you...
  13. rocketeer

    AVI LTHR BRONCO A-2 Jacket Review & Pics

    A great detailed write up. I did notice that your example has a repro military label but the one on the website has a the modern makers label. Still great to have a reasonably accurate repro at a price suitable for everyday wear.
  14. rocketeer

    How to clean a waxed deck jacket?

    I did wash my old Trialsmaster in warm water 40 degrees and used washing powder as it was dirty and smelt. The water looked like liquid mud and then let it dry slowly. Next up was a re waxing, hung in a warm room followed by another waxing a week later. I spent about 1 hr rubbing in the wax...
  15. rocketeer

    AERO LEATHER WATER RESISTANCE TESTS

    One thing to remember, I let the coat dry out in a warm room in a normal heat, not near a radiator, what you could call slightly warmer than normal day to day room temp as we were freezing. As to Blackpool, we need to go back as we could not go up the tower. It has stood for over 100 years, as...
  16. rocketeer

    AERO LEATHER WATER RESISTANCE TESTS

    Not really, maybe a little but the lining (wool blanket) was fairly dry. Though the coat weighed a ton :(
  17. rocketeer

    AERO LEATHER WATER RESISTANCE TESTS

    Mine blew inside out! Then outside in and inside out so I then put it inside the outside dustbin and got wet. To windy to wear my trade mark trilby beside the seaside ;)
  19. rocketeer

    AERO LEATHER WATER RESISTANCE TESTS

    Sorry had to hijack a small part of this topic ;) Here's a proper test for Front Quarter Horse. Saturday 21st October,Blackpool prom in a bit of wind and rain, sometime known as Brian. No it wasn't quite Irma. At first the water beaded but after around 1/2 hr in non stop rain dark patches...
  20. rocketeer

    Freewheelers at Son of Stag

    Before leather jackets I always thought Real McCoy was aGerman technotronic pop band. ;)
  21. rocketeer

    Freewheelers at Son of Stag

    Even 'Superdry'(yes I know it's English) comes out as what a certain online translator would translate as Waterproof, which most of their products arn't. How about the title of those Rin Tanaka books? Mr Freedamn, and a couple more quirky clothes stores such as 'Oscar and Jesus' , 'A bathing...
  22. rocketeer

    Freewheelers at Son of Stag

    But then....I popped into Son of Stag as it was only 2 shops away from Eastmans pop up shop just off Brick Lane. they had a Stetson Philadelphia straw hat for going on £300. Now I would not pay that but I had balked at the same hat in a Brighton Hat shop who were selling at a similar price so...
  23. rocketeer

    Leather jacket storage and humidity levels

    If you have anything lacquered such as a B3 or ANJ4, especially American spec, storing them piled may make the outer side stick to a similar surface such as another jacket (B3 sleeves folded onto body of jacket). If left for some time this may then pull some of the finish off as you...

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