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  1. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    I was happy in the cold, rain and wind until about 23. Then I moved to Asia and stayed there for a long time. On returning to the UK for a year in my mid-thirties, I realised that I could no longer stand the cold. Jacket weather is anything below 23C for me. Much below 13C and it's layering...
  2. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Aero HB in seal goat. Shirt is a Wabash job from Hong Kong. Cost 34 quid and has lasted for a fair while.
  3. zebedee

    Leather jackets that look best in black?

    Dark seal (I have a goat HB in it) is a good compromise. It passes for black, but is more evidently brown in sunlight. As it doesn't really fade, it's consistent. It has an excellent weight and is very pliable. Aero's black goat is also good- contrast stitching in olive really offsets...
  4. zebedee

    Leather jackets that look best in black?

    Aero's black goat is a great, slightly matte, hide. It'd work with a short jacket really well. For a more threatening approach, Aero's Stockman. If you ever wanted to look like an East European butcher of unpleasant American teenagers in a grind house film, the Stockman in black is for you.
  5. zebedee

    My new LW J23 arrrived!

    None of it stops me thinking that the LW peacoats are great. I don't have a shinki jacket; the ones I've seen look really good.
  7. zebedee

    My new LW J23 arrrived!

    I'm curious as to why he'd say this (or at least how a person would say this without revealing the obvious vulnerability or insecurity). Is it the shininess he doesn't like, or the makers who use it, or the way it's tanned? Or is it a long-buried, media-sublimated Pearl Harbour trauma?
  8. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    What you are trying to achieve is preventing droplets getting into the nose and throat and also the eyes. Layers here would be important- anything that shields the eyes will also help.
  9. zebedee

    My new LW J23 arrrived!

    I would imagine that Stuart's list in response to questions about leather such as: 'What is acceptable?' and 'What is good?' would be quite short but probably memorable. His answer to enquiries as to the impact of James Charles on the skincare world would be a lot longer and eminently quotable.
  10. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    And in more direct sunlight...
  11. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Aero Maxwell in cordovan.
  13. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    You're still better off with the mask than nothing. If you can buy a Korean sun visor (whole face) and use the cotton mask underneath it, you've got impromptu protection.
  14. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    This is incredibly cool.
  15. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Aero CR again:
  16. zebedee

    Face Masks And other DIY projects

    Some cultures are coincidentally better-prepared for certain kinds of threats. Hong Kong did an incredible job, as did South Korea (and Taiwan beat everyone), and it looks as if China's policies have worked - although it is so vast it is hard for anyone (them included) to say (it's much easier...
  17. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Haha! The battered hides would be great for a buttoned jacket. The Mulligan - even with that odd chest pocket - would work in either tan or seal (hmmmmm...). This CR has taken on wear so quickly that the notion of treating it preciously just doesn't occur. It's full of little bashes, rivulet...
  19. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Thedi has some of the best hides I've seen on here. I need to part with at least one jacket (and preferably two) before I can consider another purchase - if I did, the tan buffalo looks great. It'd suit a Mulligan-style jacket really well. Roll on the end of lockdown and back to Shanghai...
  20. zebedee

    Aero Goatskin. Does it build a patina?

    I need to get some wear in on my Aero goat 1950s HB. It seems to show no age, but I'm going to see if I can give it a month or two of regular 'chore' wear. :)
  21. zebedee

    Aero Goatskin. Does it build a patina?

    That looks amazing. The wear on that is stunning.
  22. zebedee

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    It's a great hide - it is pre-wallopped, though, and seems to shed top layer quickly. There are miniature surface 'cuts' near underarm rivets, etc. in the surface coating that you'd normally see in HH where the cuff leather has been sewn and hammered. I don't think they're weaknesses in the...
  23. zebedee

    Field Leathers

    Looking at vintage pictures or wearers and jackets, I can't see that 'fit' was about all that much more than perception due to trouser rise. :)

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