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  1. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    That's because it's a franglais approximation of 'All mouth, no trousers' for a giggle.
  2. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    The failure at Ph.D probably means that someone saw through the BS that was allowed to get through at BA standards. Tout de bouche, pas de pantalons, to drop in a bit of French phrasing. I still reckon the peacoat LW does is great, but the bloke sounds like a fool.
  3. zebedee

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

    Aero 50s HB in goat- it's lighter than HH but still substantial. At the moment, though, it's a bit too hot for a jacket.
  4. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

  5. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    'Eunuchry'. You have to chuckle. Stu is invested in - culturally and sartorially - your balls, the lack thereof, their significance and their relationship to leather. The ramble, the dangle, the absence, that sad space, nostalgia for vanished men and their imagined, vaunted testicles. Lost...
  7. zebedee

    Lost Worlds’ founder Stuart interviewed

    It was an interesting interview to read- it comes across as painfully pseudo-academic, though. I think that that's what gets me about the website, too - it's like an unconvincing person's idea of a convincing person's stance.
  8. zebedee

    Favorite jacket? Owned or dreamed of.

    I want a Himel Canuck in brown with that grey/black/green lining. I don't need one, though, and the prices are too high for me for an item of clothing. I'd only buy one used if I could shift other jackets I own as I've got too many and it's all a bit daft. The Aero Maxwell I have in Cordovan...
  9. zebedee

    Is Simmons Bilt still open?

    My SB was great. My Aeros have also been fantastic, and, while I prefer Aero's designs (this will invite some jostling), SB jackets are solid. I'm 95% an Aero customer to the exclusion of other brands (they fit what I'm willing to spend), but I think that SB's Statesman is a very nice jacket...
  10. zebedee

    Is Simmons Bilt still open?

    I'd leave it a few weeks. If you've sent that many emails she/the company either isn't equipped to fulfil the order yet or there's not enough of a regular crew to process things. If they're a small company (and they very much are, people say), in all likelihood the pandemic has overwhelmed...
  11. zebedee

    Is Simmons Bilt still open?

    A lot of businesses are not fully open. Some small operations have very limited staff. There aren't offices full of folks reading emails in many places, but there may well be someone on the phone, or someone checking messages. Aero are taking new orders (I think) but alterations won't be...
  13. zebedee

    Is Simmons Bilt still open?

    Phone them. As far as I know, they're still operating.
  14. zebedee

    Over 50 wearing leather jackets

    I like that sentiment. I also like the jacket, but the sentiment just about trumps it :)
  15. zebedee

    Button placement on cuffs

    It's just much easier to alter suit arms that don't have actual buttonholes and buttons.
  16. zebedee

    Over 50 wearing leather jackets

    I've worked with some people who were fairly direct, and of the stated view that leather jackets were for young women and that anybody else looked like a fool wearing one.
  17. zebedee

    Over 50 wearing leather jackets

    Yup. 'The Killing Kind' has him as a Hackney enforcer with confusions. He's been in quite a number of good things, and yes, he gets 'evil Eastern gangster' roles a lot.
  19. zebedee

    Over 50 wearing leather jackets

    See Andrew Howard, above. And for what I reckon is his best performance, 'The Killing Kind' (or 'Mr. Inbetween', as it was titled outside the UK). He's been in some odd gems. Get older, stay in shape.
  20. zebedee

    Over 50 wearing leather jackets

    You can get away with leather and a feather boa if you have the right posture, haircut and demeanour: Haha/
  21. zebedee

    Over 50 wearing leather jackets

    I think that you should wear whatever you like unless you're going to get fired for it. Don't worry too much about what other people might be thinking in any context apart from work unless they're about to give you a kicking. Most people think about themselves a lot of the time and put...
  22. zebedee

    Aero labels

    This one's on my 50s HB in goat. Aero's goat hide is really great stuff. If I had to pick an all-purpose leather (not too heavy, could be dressed up or down, excellent drape, exceptionally durable), this would be it. It also seems to be a pretty much flawless hide - most of my other Aeros...
  23. zebedee

    Bad experience with Lost Worlds

    That's confused word order perhaps due to a deletion- presumably would have meant 'short of them offering a refund plus paid shipping back, I am done.'

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