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  1. zebedee

    Anyone seen high-end jackets in light tan or cognac goat?

    Best Thedis on the Lounge.
  2. zebedee

    Anyone seen high-end jackets in light tan or cognac goat?

    I'm just wondering if it appears in colours apart from black, seal and russet or if any of our favourite manufacturers stocks it, even on an infrequent basis. J.
  3. zebedee

    Minimum Annual Usage

    When you let a jacket go, you forget about it inside 3 days. If you let it go, you probably didn't really like it or need it, because it wasn't wanted or a necessity deep down. I'm like that with books, too. I took a contract once where I only brought my 'core' of books with me and had this...
  4. zebedee

    Magnoli Clothiers Quality?

    How does Wested fare vs. Magnoli?
  5. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    That's a great jacket. I also really like battered tan, although I marginally prefer the Thedi 'smashed up buffalo', or whatever it's called.
  7. zebedee

    Minimum Annual Usage

    This is interesting- I also don't spend as much on non-leather jackets (which I only really wear for formal occasions). I'm happy with overcoats from Hawes and Curtis, Brooks and the like, and only have one of each. I have a Carhartt Detroit which sees a little wear and some tailor-made coats...
  8. zebedee

    Minimum Annual Usage

    I try not to duplicate styles. My goatskin Aero 50s HB is seeing a lot of wear at the moment- I find that it's an ideal length and weight (and I'm strongly tempted to get an external zipper picket added to it). My likely travel companions will be the Maxwell and the Cafe Racer. The first for...
  9. zebedee

    Minimum Annual Usage

    Jackets I don't really wear more than once or twice every year (or more rarely- if they're in the UK and I'm in Shanghai, a jacket might not get worn at all in a given two years) I sell or sometimes give to friends if I'm sure that I just won't wear them. Some that I've worn the hell out of get...
  10. zebedee

    What's your 'grab-and-go' jacket...?

    The cold and humidity made my joints ache - but it hadn't in previous years of living in the UK. I used to get slight headaches, but it was a jolt to the system. I think it was because the coldest it got in Guangzhou was maybe 12 C. Summers were very long and about 35 C. Flying from GZ to...
  11. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    McCarthy's source text may well have been Samuel Chamberlain's 'My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue'. It's mostly a laborious read, but contains the occasional scenes of brutality that so frequently occur in BM (my view of the text is that it's a studied and crafted narrative and a...
  13. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    Read 'Suttree' and 'The Orchard Keeper'. Stu's going to have to start quoting McCarthy. This is how a future interview might go: 'Tear apart a jacket? Some people might, but not us. Makes no sense. Here at Lost Worlds we are deeper yet in our plotting. Deeper than a man may reckon in...
  14. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    Try Melville's 'Benito Cereno'. It's brief and both funny and unnerving.
  15. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    If the storms here keep hitting, I'm going for a walk in my Cafe Racer Aero. I like the battered seal hide more and more and I'm going to take it out for a breather even if it's just to get some groceries.
  16. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    C'est impossible? Is that what you're telling me, friendo?
  17. zebedee

    What Are You Reading

    I'm re-reading Cormac McCarthy's 'Suttree' and two histories of subcultures over the past 50 years. Also starting China Mieville's 'The Last Days of New Paris'. I liked his 'The City and the City' up until the end, which I anticipated for quite a while.
  19. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    Sometimes I listen to monkeys.
  20. zebedee

    What's your 'grab-and-go' jacket...?

    I've spent so much of my life living in really hot temperatures that I'm almost cold in anything less than 20C. When I came back to the UK the first Christmas I'd spent here in a long time really was painful. I'd not been that cold in about 5 years, although the benefit is that I don't suffer...
  21. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    It was the Ph.D tangent that did it. I really like Melville; although Moby Dick is a tome, it's likely that readers serialised their own reading. Without writers like Melville and Faulkner we'd probably not have McCarthy's Blood Meridian: 'They were watching, out there past men’s knowing...
  22. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    I want to see her in a LW peacoat and then I'd try damn hard in my pidgin French to get her to take it off, particularly if it was my size and she couldn't run very quickly.
  23. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    Although nothing beats Jerome K. Jerome's English characters who, in order to seem sophisticated, directly port English phrases into French. One of them, when feigning surprise, likes to exclaim, 'Bien je jamais!'.

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