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  1. Edward

    Summertime then and now ...

    I have mixed feelings on this. It always feels like wishing the time away too quickly on the one hand. On the other, working in the university sector where our salaries have not kept up with inflation, I'm glad for the opportunity to have more sales and a longer run-up to Christmas now I'm...
  2. Edward

    How about that vintage western look

    I expect they'd be crazy money to buy or have custom made, but I'd love to have a pair of boots matching these: These Acme boots are the same pattern and colourway as the ones worn by Meatloaf as Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Eddie started off as a Teddy boy in the original London...
  3. Edward

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Pop artist Jamie Reid, most famous for his 'ransom note' style and putting a safety pin through the nose of the Queen, has died aged 76. https://www.nme.com/news/music/sex-pistols-artist-and-punk-legend-jamie-reid-dies-aged-76-3480414 His work has long been something I enjoy. A sad loss.
  4. Edward

    Good quality but affordable first leather jacket

    My Highwayman is a 42. I would tend towards a 44 or a 46 in the halfbelt models, depending on cut (mostly because I don't have a pre-war chest to waist drop!). Ignore the stated label size, though - it's all about the actual jacket measurements. If it's a pre-made jacket, they should be able to...
  5. Edward

    Good quality but affordable first leather jacket

    Aero crop up used on eBay here and there. You can also get a really good deal on their "apprentice made" jackets - some years ago, I bought a Highwayman "apprentice made" for about 60% of the cost of the regular line. As good as any, or sometimes (appropriate priced) with the sort of minor...
  7. Edward

    Vintage British Brands?

    Goldtop is another. Quite a lot of police style leathers floating about from them (especially boots) as they were a supplier to English police forces at at time, 60s/70s. (There are, of course, also the jackets available under the revived Goldtop brand, which are very nice, particularly if you...
  8. Edward

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think it's just in some cases a sense of entitlement / belief that everyone else will stop for them. Of course, it also varies with culture. I see a lot better awareness of pedestrians in Beijing (where, as is the same across much of mainland Europe, a red traffic light means only "no straight...
  9. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I think it's a second cousin thing--- tbh, though, I've never managed to get a handle on how that all works! We've managed to get some amazing shows in at the Garden over the years as the wife is very adept at booking as soon as these things open. The other thing of course is that we're happy...
  10. Edward

    Studio 180 : Asteroid City Exhibition, London, July 2023

    We weren't alone, but it was quiet. Mid-afternoon on a Thursday. Judging from the ticket sales page when I booked in, evenings and weekends were inevitably much busier. I tend to try to get to things when they're quieter, especially if I know I'm going to want to do some photos. The English...
  11. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Oh, now you're asking. I enjoyed it enough that I certainly think it's worth paying money to see. In technical terms, I don't think it's a film that seeing it on the big screen will be as difference an experience as seeing the Indy picture on the big vs small screen. It's not an action-picture...
  13. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Tremendous fun. I loved Alan. I think the last picture that made me hoot the same way at its satire on consumerism might have been Josie and the Pussycats in...2001? Barbie really nails it, though.
  14. Edward

    House husbands

    Woody Allen skewed that sort of 'golden age thinking' very nicely indeed in Midnight in Paris. Of course, as I discovered years ago when I published on legal content regulation and moral panic, it's as old as society. I went back to Plato in that piece, as memory serves, but probably Ug the...
  15. Edward

    (Vintage) clothes and weight gain

    I did exactly the same. I don't ever expect to get back to my university years when I was wearing a 32" waist. However, in 2010 I had a 38" waist; by 2018 I was wearing a 48". In 2022, teetering on need a 50" (and unable to buy anything I really wanted to wear, trouser-wise - oddly, vintage...
  16. Edward

    Vintage Indianapolis 500 Team Jackets

    Very nice! Any indication of date? I'd presume early 60s? Puts me in mind of the jacket Elvis wore in Speedway (1968), though his looks to me more cotton than nylon (hard to tell in photos sometimes)?
  17. Edward

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Sounds like it would do the trick. In my end of Ireland, the Hot Whiskey was the go-to. One shot whiskey with lemon, cloves, and topped up with hot water. Some folks also liked to add sugar or a spoonful of honey. It's more pleasant than a Lemsip!
  19. Edward

    Any vintage Zippo lighters collectors ?

    I think they need to bed in to some extent, soak up the fuel from dry on the first run. If regularly used, you'll always be refilling it a little 'wet'. A zippo lighter has its limitations like anything else, though I've never had a refillable lighter that didn't work.... some years ago, I...
  20. Edward

    Aero Hooch Hauler Thread 2022

    Nice jacket. I like the Talman in the background too!
  21. Edward

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'm due a re-viewing of that. Saw it a couple of months ago for the first time. I enjoyed it, though with the caveat that as it's officially sanctioned and was made with the full support and co-operation of the EP estate, it's going to be limited in some aspects. I thought it was very strong in...
  22. Edward

    J. Robert Oppenheimer Fedora

    It does have the feel of a picture made with an audience in mind who are either assumed to already know the basic story (or trusted to figure it out / research it for themselves).
  23. Edward

    Indiana Jones V

    That's the exact kiddy version of Temple I had. Always thought the choice of cover image was interesting - not the obvious one. (Particularly as, if memory serves, much of that version was told from Short Round's pov.) My Raiders novelisation was very similar, though I seem to recollect it was...

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