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    which one is better,aero or alexander

    Actually the so called vintage fit will probably fit a slimmer Asian frame better. While Alexander's 'modern fit' is more aimed at the bigger/fatter modern westerner. In reality the shape of the jackets is much the same but ALs sizes run a little truer to normal shop sizes than Aero depending...
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    New to the board and looking for a little advice on a highwayman order

    Good chance he's got himself sorted out by now....
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    Aero 1930s slim half belt versus the bootlegger??? help

    This is my favourite authentic A2 fit picture....
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    Help with choosing a leather jacket

    If I lived in the US I would go with one of the local makers like Johnson who people here have had had good experiences with. The main selling point of Aero is their access to Horween FQHH. It might feel like wearing a suitcase when it's new but it is beautiful stuff and breaks in to a make a...
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    Ralph Lauren's favourite leather shearling jacket

    There's one in a size 42 on their sale page right now.
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    Help with choosing a leather jacket

    I think you're confusing fashion items with quality garments. For instance I bought a Schott jacket over thirty years ago when I lived in London from a highish end niche shop. At the time there was a fashion for fifties Americana and the price of the jacket reflected that; plus the import...
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    Help with choosing a leather jacket

    It's like anything. There's good quality and there's bespoke. Is a Mercedes worth twice as much as a Toyota? Is a Bentley worth that much more again? Only the buyer can decide that for himself.
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    Help with choosing a leather jacket

    There are quite a lot of very good jackets put up on the Aero sale page today incidentally. I notice one of them is a jacket I sent back recently because the sleeves were a bit too short. Perfect otherwise. A rather nice Thunder Bay among others too.
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    Help with choosing a leather jacket

    Lost Worlds and Aero and a few others make jackets to a high standard that will last a lifetime and have the highest quality leather. Schott make good quality high st or in US terms mall jackets. The cost of something like that is what it is.
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    Anyone own the new Aero Thunderbay?

    With their sheepskin lined jackets they use a size up shell and the size you specified lining. So a size 40 will have a 42 shell. This is true for the standard sheepskin lined ones like the Longshoreman and jackets which are not normally sheepskin lined where they add one. This can cause an...
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    Continuous declining quality of outwear

    Incomes of all but the richest have been falling since the seventies that's a fact. Sorry if it upsets your world view. Meanwhile back in the reality based community...
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    Continuous declining quality of outwear

    So good you posted it twice?
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    Continuous declining quality of outwear

    The quality of all mass produced goods has been falling steadily for a long time, and not just in Europe but worldwide. It doesn't have anything to do with so called regulatory burdens either but is a product of our throwaway culture. It includes food, which is cheap compared to decades ago but...
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    Alexander Leathers

    I only posted here because I haven't visited FL very often in the last few months and when I saw the mess that a few Aero fanboys had made of this thread I thought I would post a counter balance. It was supposed to be about AL and to inform anyone interested in that company and its products I...
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    Alexander Leathers

    No not something you would want to return to at all. Judging by my recent experience with Aero I think their best people might well have gone over to the other side. Unlike you I expect, I have jackets made by both. Or rather I have jackets from Aero from a few years back to couple of...
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    Aero Dustbowl Fit Help!!

    Sounds a bit like my fairly recent experience. Down to the sleeves being nearly an inch shorter than specified in my case, and the jacket length a bit over half an inch shorter. That was a remake too after the first one was wrong in several ways. The jacket length was no big problem but the...
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    Aero Dustbowl Fit Help!!

    Yes if he gave them his measurements accurately it should fit better than that. Having said that I've given my measurements to them accurately and had badly fitting jackets sent. Both under the previous and current regime.
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    Best Leather Outfit for Date?

    This would get his attention.
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    Anyone ever order an Aero midweight horsehide jacket? Or Aero's Sheene?

    If it says Genuine Horsehide it should be a midweight one. The heavy Horween FQHH is labeled FQHH. The midweight HH is still FQHH BTW, as far as I know all jacket HH is. But it isn't Horween heavy FQHH, and it's sourced from various places. The oil pull midweight HH can be thicker than Horween...
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    Bill Kelso Mfg - Official Affiliate Thread

    Glad you posted that. It always irritates me when someone puts up a picture of a well worn, nearly worn out jacket and talks about its great patina. In antique furniture patina is the colour and depth you can see into the wood after a hundred years of polishing in dust. Not surface scratches...

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