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    Were Belstaff jackets originally made with leather?

    Going down memory lane today. I good friend had one of those and I remember going from the West country to Mid Wales on the back of it one freezing winter. Although his was a slightly later one. Nice bike and so unusual then.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    I saw that one and I do like it. I was wondering if mine might be even older than I thought and might be of a similar age as this one you posted here a few pages back. The label may not to fit the 2005-2007 time frame. Or does it?
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Thanks. Yes John Lever who seems to know thinks they used this skin from around 2005-2007 so that would fit in with your's being slightly different. No I'm not fussed about the colour it's growing on me, and I always quite liked gingers. The female kind anyway.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Thanks Smithy. I wasn't even looking for one when I saw this and I bought it on the spur of the moment so I don't think I'm going to be arsed hunting down my perfect one. I'm happy with it and the fit, but I do like the darker fur really... I don't think Spitfire settled on the one he had...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Wilco. Blue 2 out.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Thanks alsendk. I was a bit doubtful about the fur colour at first but I'm beginning to like it now.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Right. I came to the auction late but judging by the time it took him to reply to my messages after I bought it, and the time it took him to post it, I doubt if I would have got a reply in time. I'm rather glad it's older than I thought though. Nobody seems to have much good to say about the...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Do you know the seller then? Or I suppose you asked him?
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    Pre-1950s British/European sportswear and leisurewear

    Water perhaps. It might be part of a hydro electric generation plant. The track running down the middle is probably for a funicular railway and they were very often water powered too.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Really that long ago? He must have just left it then. Do they still use the broken hide now?
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    Eastman's Air Comfort civil flight jacket

    Someone posted pictures here recently of an Aero 50's FJ without cargo pockets. That's pretty much a copy of the Sears at the bottom in standard form. Add a mouton collar and you have something very like the Eastman.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    I just got this Eastman from eBay. The seller said he bought it new but only wore it twice in an open car which he then sold so didn't need the jacket anymore. Since he was also selling a saxaphone which he had given up trying to learn after discovering that you had to blow hard I can believe...
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    Has anyone seen a Golden Era leather jacket made from Horween CXL FQHH or Steer

    Did he say who he thought it was who used it first? The eighties was my guess, but I thought the later eighties.
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    Were Belstaff jackets originally made with leather?

    I had a jampot Matchless once. Very agricultural but I always loved big singles.
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    Vintage Photos of Leather Jackets

    Walter Scott had a lot to do with all that romantic highlander schmalz. Difficult to picture from this distance just how famous he was and how wildly popular his books were then.
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    New Alexander Leather Roadster too tight?

    Bullit You've had plenty of feedback. Are you going to keep it or send it back?
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    Vintage Photos of Leather Jackets

    Love the fit of the kid's Barnstormer on the right. I wonder if it's a hand me down from his brother or just massively oversized for him to grow into?
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    New Alexander Leather Roadster too tight?

    I read that too but it was the introductory sale at the beginning nearly a year ago. They shortened the sleeves of my sale jacket for nothing then too. They have a four week or so waiting list now so are getting established, and I can't see them making full price jackets for half price anymore...
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    New Alexander Leather Roadster too tight?

    But it's a half price sale jacket. So presumably he keeps it or gets his money back.
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    New Alexander Leather Roadster too tight?

    Just looked of the AL outlet page and they don't have any others like this in a bigger size. Clearly you are the one who's going to wear it but if it was me I would keep it for the money. It looks fine to me, if a little bit tight at the front perhaps but it hardly notices, and many here who...

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