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  1. zebedee

    Aero Goatskin. Does it build a patina?

    I used to be of the same mindset until I had a double-breasted leather coat that was about knee-length. I hadn't realised quite how mental I looked in it until I realised that I was just too short. I sold it to a buddy who is much taller than me and it suits him really, really well. A...
  2. zebedee

    Aero Goatskin. Does it build a patina?

    Yup- I think a Maxwell (or SB's Statesman) in goat would be fantastic. I also find it to be a warmer leather than HH, and, as it's lighter, better for humid spring weather (at least in HK). It'll probably make the return trip with me to Shanghai in August. It's an HB, which means that, unlike...
  3. zebedee

    Aero Goatskin. Does it build a patina?

    I think that this might happen if the 'pale' undertone (which looks a bit like the undertone of seal jerky HH) gets darkened sufficiently on mine; it is my only Aero that looks more or less new apart from creasing. It's nice to have the contrast, though. I didn't get an outer chest pocket on it...
  4. zebedee

    History of the "Cafe Racer" jacket.

    It would be interesting to locate the individual/shift-point. A bit like German army shirts' sudden popularity as fashion items when (vanished) bands like the Levellers started wearing them and suddenly they were a youth item. Workwear in general seems to have done this, too.
  5. zebedee

    Brooks CR jacket dating?

    Rotating what you wear is important to an extent. I try not to be the guy that always wears a leather jacket socially, but equally I wouldn't want to not wear something I like just because of what someone else might think. I'm lucky in that I don't collect leather jackets (I once owned several...
  7. zebedee

    Brooks CR jacket dating?

    Pain is just weakness leaving the body. Only it's not. I've been on a drive to wear leather less often. Bit more Carhartt, more blue French chore jacket. I reckon that Brooks CR is wearable, and definitely so with appropriately-pale other clothing. I also think that a CR-style jacket bashed...
  8. zebedee

    What Are You Reading

    John Wyndham's 'Day of the Triffids', Joseph Conrad's 'Lord Jim' and Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer'.
  9. zebedee

    Brooks CR jacket dating?

    I was talking to a bloke in my local bar and we were both wearing leather jackets. Both of us are in our early forties. "Hey," said a woman in her mid-thirties, "Can you pass my umbrella over here? It's on the back of that seat. Thanks. Sorry to interrupt your conversation- was it about...
  10. zebedee

    Brooks CR jacket dating?

    A lot of women who don't wear leather don't like it on men. A lot of women who do wear leather see it as daft on men. There are subcultural exceptions. I think that all women (-1% or -2%) see a man owning more than one leather jacket as having additional problems. But does that worry (or...
  11. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    I used to subsist on coffee and sparse nicotine with large bowls of lentils. I eat much better now, but swimming is my preferred form of exercise and all pools are closed.
  13. zebedee

    Footwear to go with our jackets

    Just stop looking down. Easy.
  14. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    There's a great book called 'Kill All Normies' by Angela Nagle on internet viciousness and its power (and impotence) which I'd recommend. Jarron Lanier (sp?) also writes well on the worthless (and seemingly sole) currency of eventual antagonism on many social media sites.
  15. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    I'd probably subscribe to the (almost) solely interested in jackets camp. I've learned a lot about different jacket makers by being on here and also purchased a pair of William Lennons and a pair of Pike Bros. due to this site- I would now spend more money on better footwear than I would have...
  16. zebedee

    lost worlds

    If you look really closely, you can see the outline of a Blog Queen in that.
  17. zebedee

    Aero Leathers New MC Jacket - Excelsior

    Those fake repairs really aren't for everyone: it looks like a very unhappy seagull took a shot at it. You'd think they'd use a similar-coloured thread- it's a bit too 'Johnny Depp fixes holes in arse of jeans with duct tape', only without (presumably) the initial need for actual repairs.
  19. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Excellent!
  20. zebedee

    Buco Jacket Restoration

    I would like to wear a leather pea coat, but there's too much of it. Some people look great in them (there was a picture of a LW pea coat with a purple lining ages ago that looked great), but I am not one of those people. Cross-zips are the same thing to me, but I'm also not a biker. They...
  21. zebedee

    Leather vests

    You need to be there when the chapter of bikers is out. I only saw this once in my time there. Much more common to see incredibly expensive cars.
  22. zebedee

    Leather vests

    Only experience I've ever had of biker groups was one in Hong Kong. On Sundays the domestic workers have their day off and go to Wan Chai en masse for partying and drinking. One woman had obviously had too much and had collapsed on the sidewalk- a friend was trying to get her to her feet but...
  23. zebedee

    Ye Old Cotton Drill Lining Thread

    I have this in black or olive in the majority of my Aero jackets. I prefer it to the tartan and it seems to be more durable.

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