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    Why did you sell your nearly new aero leather jacket(s)?

    No I’m not suggesting Italians can’t be stylish. I said that well dressed Italians have always pulled most strongly from a British influence (since the 1700s) in response to the suggestion that there’s no British style. Even Sicilian village wear came from this British influence. What I did say...
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    Why did you sell your nearly new aero leather jacket(s)?

    Yeah that was an accidental quote, haha. Honestly I prefer Mysteryo’s 5* copy of his Buco.
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    Why did you sell your nearly new aero leather jacket(s)?

    Most horsehide is tanned in Italy at that. The Japanese and American operations are rounding errors by comparison.
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    Why did you sell your nearly new aero leather jacket(s)?

    That means nothing. Millions of people go and watch the Venom movies. Okay. And there are hundreds of books about English menswear. Furthermore all of Italian menswear is copied from English menswear, something the Italian houses themselves completely admit. Rubinacci's headquarters is called...
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    Why did you sell your nearly new aero leather jacket(s)?

    It's simply fact. Look at the late Gianni Agnelli for instance. His style was essentially modelled on the Duke of Windsor, with some nods to British business practice. A country flannel look, with a DB configuration much like that favoured by the DoW. Likewise nice heavy tweeds for cool...
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    Why did you sell your nearly new aero leather jacket(s)?

    Italians are routinely terribly dressed and the best dressed Italians try to look English. Indeed many of the most prestigious Italian tailoring houses refuse to use anything but British fabric. Again, lambskin is common everywhere; it's not some Italian preference.
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    Why did you sell your nearly new aero leather jacket(s)?

    Not sure what you're suggesting is "Italian" about this. Lambskin is one of the most common everywhere except this forum.
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    Why did you sell your nearly new aero leather jacket(s)?

    No, go look up the jacket embodiment of TFL, that ended up teaching a major lesson to all of us. Look up the "CHL" and "SHL" jackets... Just call Johnson and ask to order a WWL-41 (that's their internal name for that jacket) in their standard smooth cowhide (which I love) with a mouton collar...
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    Cheaper alternatives to YSL designer style leather jackets?

    Yes Zegna always manufactured the TF suits, under their top end spec. To clarify though I was talking about investment groups buying bespoke tailoring firms like Huntsman and Anderson & Sheppard. Emphasis seems to be much more on luxurious customer service than the actual bespoke tailoring lol.
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    Cheaper alternatives to YSL designer style leather jackets?

    Hedi himself usually wears TFL style jackets instead of Hedi jackets lol
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    Cheaper alternatives to YSL designer style leather jackets?

    He doesn't always wear TF although even when he wears other stuff he wears it terribly. I was referring to the films in this case. TF got a lot of its early exposure from being featured in the second Craig Bond film Quantum of Solace but in that film he wore the suits as they were cut and they...
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    Cheaper alternatives to YSL designer style leather jackets?

    It’s across the front panels in general. I just double checked against my BL. Half-canvassing is lapels alone for a better role; full canvassing by its nature requires the front sections to be interlined with canvas. I think it’s a very cool model, very 1930s with that beautifully bellied...
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    Cheaper alternatives to YSL designer style leather jackets?

    Full canvas! Grip the chest and you’ll feel the canvas. Caruso also does some Purple Label (with extra handwork). Caruso makes the Italian RRL, correct, and used to make Rugby’s tailoring when that line was around. Both are half canvassed. In the other direction they also do some of the...
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    Cheaper alternatives to YSL designer style leather jackets?

    Man I miss RLBL. It'll be much better made than the YSL stuff too. Their Anthony model of jackets and suits is perhaps the best fit I've had in a RTW tailored garment, and even at full price I could understand someone getting it. (I mention that because RTW from RLPL, Brioni, etc costs more...
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    Cheaper alternatives to YSL designer style leather jackets?

    The "YSL moto" that all the nouveau riche wear across the world is nothing more than a boxy copy of a Lewis Lightning sometimes with an added ticket pocket, done in a quite nice but smooth calfskin or lambskin. It's the materials and branding that make it stand out, not the design. I dare say...
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    Question about new Schott 618 vs Vintage 618

    I doubt it's defective. Leather is an organic material and like all good makers, they will use pieces of consistent thickness throughout the making of the garment. I'm guessing your old one was at the upper end of the range and this one was at the lower end of the range, so the difference feels...
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    Bought this SCHOTT (identify?)

    They played around with each other's pin/accessory ideas, like Dee Dee adopting the chain on the epaulette.
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    Bought this SCHOTT (identify?)

    I'd think a 90s 118 or 618 that someone added studs to influenced by photos of some old Sears jackets.
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    5 Star Californian/Campus Halfbelt red russet goat!

    Yes the mil stuff is good. They patterned directly off of originals for those. Not so popular on the FL design wise but they’re great jackets.
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    5 Star Californian/Campus Halfbelt red russet goat!

    The only wearable patterns are the ones directly copied from something existing. If you got an exact (and I mean exact) copy of the pattern they made off of Mysteryo's Buco motorcycle jacket, that should work.

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