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    How to deal with trolls or naughty kids - take it or leave it advice.

    The funny thing about that show was that the management at the Beeb who were so uptight about off colour jokes at the time didn't have a clue what the audience was laughing at. Or pretended not to know anyway. Plausible deniability as the CIA called it later.
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    How to deal with trolls or naughty kids - take it or leave it advice.

    Yes that's the current definition. But I always think that the origins of words and phrases is so interesting and hard to pin down. There are ridiculous definitions which have wide currency like posh, which many believe comes from; port out starboard home. Actually that was just some wag...
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    A-1 Jacket / A1 Flying Jacket - The ultimate Golden Era flying accessory!

    Many thanks Dr H that would be appreciated.
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    First Leather Jacket

    If Michael Jackson could do it....
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    How to deal with trolls or naughty kids - take it or leave it advice.

    From trolling about originally I would imagine. Polari for acting coquettishly to attract a sexual partner. Coat trailing.
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    A-1 Jacket / A1 Flying Jacket - The ultimate Golden Era flying accessory!

    Old threads never die. Having resurrected this one can anyone help me with the measurements of a 44 Eastman A 1 please? The cape version and maybe the earlier one too if anyone happens to know. Was the earlier steer one a bit baggier than the current one? I saw a picture of someone...
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    Swedish military leather coat, dated 1941

    Really? I always thought mine was probably horse hide or steer from the look and feel of it. It certainly didn't seem like goat. Far too thick and heavy.
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    Swedish military leather coat, dated 1941

    I had one of those once. I bought it from an advertisement in Exchange and Mart sometime in the seventies. It cost less than £10 I remember. Thick blanket lining and it weighed a ton. Warm and windproof though. Some dickhead of a leather shop man cut too much off the sleeves when I took it in to...
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    Alexander Leathers Simmons and Aero Aeromarine Discussion

    Yep. Shackleton managed to save all his men, and made an epic voyage to South Georgia in an open boat to get help. Very much underrated compared to the failed and flawed hero Scott.
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    Some one-off Aeros?

    I think the apprentice jackets use a different hide usually. I bought one a few years ago in steer and it was a fairly lightweight hide quite nice and soft. Interestingly it also had the old blue label as did the other apprentice ones being sold then. I sold it on eBay later and got what I paid...
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    Alexander Leathers Simmons and Aero Aeromarine Discussion

    I seem to remember that they used to be worn a lot by students and such like in the sixties. They sort of took over from the duffle coat. They had leather shoulders and were available quite cheaply in places like Millets. Very warm and comfortable they were too. Maybe Blair's was one he had...
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    Alexander Leathers Simmons and Aero Aeromarine Discussion

    Hm. They were quick off the mark there.
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    Best of the new Aero bunch

    I had a shearling lined Barnstormer in FQHH which I got rid of recently and it weighed nearly 6kg. Not far off a stone. Can't say it bothered me much, the weight is evenly distributed over the shoulders. People did look a bit shocked if they picked it up though.
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    Starting over with my Aero Half-Belt Order- Which Option?

    Maintaining historical accuracy when it means the jacket won't fit?
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    Starting over with my Aero Half-Belt Order- Which Option?

    Surely they will still add length if you're tall? I thought Insurrection did that anyway to its jackets. Not sure I understand the difference between that and this flat bottom of which you speak. Can't you keep the shape but just add length?
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    We are, we are, we are the mods.

    Not to me priend, I was one. But like I said it was all over by the mid sixties. These kids are just dressing the way most fashionable kids were by then. Nothing particularly mod about it.
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    We are, we are, we are the mods.

    Depends who you were and where you were. In 1967 the alternative was well under way and in many clubs people were dressing very differently to these boys.
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    That didn't take long!

    A size 42 Eastman M422A I had measured 22" chest. So this is about as slim fitting as that.
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    We are, we are, we are the mods.

    My memories of the Mod scene was that it was all over by 1964/65 and had split into modyobs who had started shaving their temples and were into fighting and were evolving into skinheads, and the emerging alternative scene. A certain type of Mod had always been involved in a crossover with the...
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    The psychological boost of wearing a hat!

    Hats are making a very definite come back in the UK. The trilby, which is the same as a fedora, and like that hat is named after the lead character is a hit play can be seen on anyone from a government minister to just someone keeping his head warm in the cold. They have never gone away in horsy...

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