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  1. Seb Lucas

    Let's see your mechanical watches

    Caravelle watches were the budget brand made by Bulova - some of those 60's ones had Japanese or Swiss movements. That one looks a little later. I quite like the mid 1960's Caravelle Sea Hunter with the Explorer style dial. Thanks to the internet cult of cool things they now go for big money...
  2. Seb Lucas

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Funny. I put on my corduroy blazer (Ralph Lauren) just before you posted this.
  3. Seb Lucas

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    This and The Trial are my favourtite Welles films. Actually the only Welles film I don't enjoy is the one he liked best, 'Chimes at Midnight.'
  4. Seb Lucas

    Ultimate Leather Conditioner Comparison (on Reddit)

    All of the above has been debunked here and other places. Mink oil is the only product I know that can rot stitching and ruin jackets. But some people have good results, they say. The conditioner world is full of dogma and personal testimonies that contradict, even cancel out each other. Of...
  5. Seb Lucas

    Ultimate Leather Conditioner Comparison (on Reddit)

    That's why I made the joke abut Pecards. :eek:
  7. Seb Lucas

    Ultimate Leather Conditioner Comparison (on Reddit)

    I wouldn't put Pecards on cracked lips. Keep us posted Will Zach I'd be interested how the jacket feels in 6 to 12 months without re-treatment.
  8. Seb Lucas

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Great story ADDH. In the days before the internet, buying a jacket form America seemed to be such a risk to me - what if it didn't fit, etc. Postage was much less professional than it is today. All the cool stuff was advertised in mags like Guns and Ammo and Popular Mechanics. I saw the first...
  9. Seb Lucas

    Ultimate Leather Conditioner Comparison (on Reddit)

    I'm sure Pecards has other things in it, just commenting on the end result and the feel of the product. In Australia, thirty plus years ago, the leather jacket guys used to only use Joseph Luddy Dubbin on jackets - every 2 or 3 years you'd smear it on your jacket and hang it in the hot sunshine...
  10. Seb Lucas

    What do you wear under your jacket?

    A t-shirt and a thin v neck sweater, or a t-shirt with a long sleeve cotton shirt, or a sweatshirt.
  11. Seb Lucas

    Ultimate Leather Conditioner Comparison (on Reddit)

    Yes it was. I find with Pecards - which is perfectly fine - that it fades away after few months and the jacket looks pretty much as it did before treatment. I don't think that an greasy looking jacket signifies a 'fix.' I've used Vaseline and it seems to be about the same as Pecards. Also...
  13. Seb Lucas

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Jonesy covers it in his response. I know very little about leather but this does come up in discussions with makers. Additionally, when I have friends raise their eyebrows at me about a jacket made in Pakistan, I have to remind them of that country's great tailoring tradition and impressive...
  14. Seb Lucas

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    I think you argue your case well there, Monitor. I still can't imagine paying more than $80 for a pair of jeans but I get your perspective (and they look great) as you clearly get mine. It's a big world and the Fedora Lounge can deal with differences in values.
  15. Seb Lucas

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Yes, the prices are idiotic (not the jeans or the people) I paid an idiotic $1500 for an Aero half-belt, so I know what I'm talking about and I have to say, it is not as satisfying as my $20 thrift shop leather jacket. What you need to remember is people have different views about clothing, and...
  16. Seb Lucas

    Alpha Industries M65 Field Jacket

    Great stuff. Before the internet, in the late 1980's I spent years trying to track down a leather M65. I occasionally saw them advertised in US gun mags, but I was never brave enough or rich enough to order own back then. I think Cooper and Avirex made some - who did that one?
  17. Seb Lucas

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    I hear you, but I also think there are a lot of games people play with the idea of value. If I were going to compare the Five Star jackets I would put them up against the working jackets of the 1940's and 1950's, not a boutique high-craft jacket like a Goodwear. It was probably dumb of me to...
  19. Seb Lucas

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    That wasn't my intended point. It's not about poly cotton use (which I prefer) - it's about which quality poly cotton. Just wondering how cheap the materials are he is using and whether they are up to long term wear. And linings... ditto. It's also not a developing country versus a developed...
  20. Seb Lucas

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    I totally agree - I got into Shawn's work a year ago - I have a real problem with the idea of a $1,500 jacket. The problem for me is when people say ''good at this price point". Which sounds awfully like, "It's decent for a third rate item." What would you compare the quality to?
  21. Seb Lucas

    Five Star Leather Jackets

    We could all be dead tomorrow. But you see my point. :D If the style and construction is sound, the only unresolved issue is the robustness and only time will tell.
  22. Seb Lucas

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Agree, the prices are idiotic. I guess it's down to personal values. No one here is a male model so that comment goes without saying. I wish there were alternatives to jeans as the look doesn't appeal to me all that much over the age of 30. Problem is I hate chinos - an awkward, accountant at a...
  23. Seb Lucas

    Converting chest measurements to Pit-Pit

    When you say you have a chest of 42 does that mean this is what your chest measures with tape around a t-shirt? Or is this your normal chest size? I have a 40 inch chest measured and I find I prefer a 23 inch pit to pit. Labeled sizes are inexact, never go by them. I have owned jackets marked...

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