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    WWII Leather Jacket.

    Best put it in the classified section with some good pictures and all the measurements. Plus the price you want of course. I don’t know if you’ve worked out how to put up pics yet but it’s very simple. Just click on the Upload a File button find it on your computer.
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    Microcracks all over Steerhide Aero jacket?

    Extreme conditions might do that I suppose. CXL gets very stiff in the cold when the oils solidify. Why don’t you send the pictures to Aero or Thurston and see what they think.
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    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    The definitive answer to how close they were to a functioning bomb was established just after the war, and declassified in the seventies I think it was. The British had a lot of the captured main German nuclear scientists locked up together in comfort in a country house in England with all the...
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    Microcracks all over Steerhide Aero jacket?

    To have a hole appear just by itself doesn’t seem right at all. I second the better pictures because I thought the hole might be caused by damage from abrasion or impact from the ones you put up.
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    Microcracks all over Steerhide Aero jacket?

    Is that a hole in the centre? It’s not a very good picture but is the leather very dry? It could be that it just needs conditioning if it is.
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    Death of a Newspaper

    Today The Independent, a UK national newspaper ceased its print edition and went online only. It never really recovered from Murdoch cutting the cost of The Times to a pittance to undercut it twenty and more years ago. He has deep pockets and he took a loss on The Times for a decade to grab...
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    Microcracks all over Steerhide Aero jacket?

    The OPs looks normal to me and I have a three year old CXL steer which looks very similar in parts. If yours is cracking more than that it might need some conditioning. There are as many opinions as people when it come down to how often and what you should use to condition hide. But if yours is...
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    Dry cleaning jackets - yes or no?

    If it’s done by a company which specialises in leather and suede cleaning it will come back as new. But a run of the mill dry cleaners round the corner might well ruin it.
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    Eastman air comfort

    That’s right you do rarely see them for sale. Probably why I didn’t see this one going through eBay. I tend to check Aero and Eastman regularly but all you mostly see is A2s from Eastman and HWM from Aero. Plus a quite a few nice ones from Japan lately in too small a size for me. I’m still a bit...
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    Sport coat and jeans??

    Quite the opposite with me. I prefer to add a touch of informality to leaven an otherwise staid outfit. But I wear one of my leather jackets most often which are informal by their nature. I do not mock you either, but neither I or anyone else can change reality. Whatever that is...
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    Eastman air comfort

    I had my eye on one of these a year or so ago but was put off by being between sizes. Eastman is a bit weird with some sizes as well. I missed this or I would have bid on it too. But if it doesn’t fit I’ll give you what you paid for it…. My PM box is always open.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There is a probably spurious claim made for Melton Mowbray in the early nineteenth century. But the first recorded use is later in the US in the eighteen eighties. It’s certainly a phrase I would associate with the American west and cowboys on a spree. In fact in High Plains Drifter the Clint...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You should hear some upper crust types pronounce Conduit Street W1 as Cundit Street. Or refer to police constables as cuntstable. They really don’t like that either.
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    Maltese Falcon on the big screen

    Think I misunderstood your post before and thought they were remaking it. At least with a new print it should look better on TV when It’s shown again. Edit: But I see it’s high quality digital. Pity, there is a difference for all they claim.
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    Sport coat and jeans??

    Those brogues are made for walking, and that’s just what they do. Good brogues from a good maker are the most comfortable shoes known to man.
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    Sport coat and jeans??

    Brown brogues for me.
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    Aero 20-something year old Zip Sleeve Highwayman

    It looks good and that hide is lovely. It was a real shame that Connolly’s overreached themselves and went bust. They produced some wonderful leather and were the suppliers of Rolls Royce seat leathers as well as to almost all the higher end British cars. I had several Jaguars years ago with...
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    Sport coat and jeans??

    Actually it’s about sports coats and jeans. But it’s already digressed into suit jackets and jeans which is a horrible look and quite different. Not to mention all the talk about washed out ripped jeans and jackets which no one other than a demented would be celeb or other fashion victim would...
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    Sport coat and jeans??

    How am I responsible for your subjective perception? That’s a bit like someone in a pub who spills a man’s beer and is quick to say sorry. The man whose beer has been spilled then tells him, “ I don’t like the way your apology came across there sunshine,” and decks him. Quite bonkers.
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    Sport coat and jeans??

    Actually I did. It wasn’t what you just wrote there either.

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