I’m trying to work out roughly when my latest jacket was made. It’s got the Ostmann Luftwaffe label, shiny zips, pleated back and brown hide overdyed black. It was a bargain at £150 on greedbay UK
Woman’s Fidelity Café Racer at a bargain price size 10
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324156660767
Check his other items for a small white label (missing) G1 and a multipocket woman’s leather - similar to Schott and Lesco versions.
Check with ‘Rag Parade’ on a Facebook. It’s a vintage clothing shop owned by a friend. It’s also called Jojo’s General Store 553 Ecclesall Road Sheffield UK. He does online sales and is highly likely to have what you need and if not may be able to source one for you.
It looks like an Aero Leather ‘Luftwaffe’ jacket made by Aero Leather. The label has the usual Aero words but translated into German. I believe they made this jacket a few years ago but it’s not on their website at present. It’s the ‘Luftwaffe’ not the ‘Hartmann’ - the latter doesn’t have...
Can anyone throw any light on - Why this label?
I may have paid too much for this old Aero Café Racer at £180 eBay U.K. but I’ve been after one for some time. I’m intrigued by the Thunderbay label. I’ve read on old threads on TFL that this label was sometimes used to signify an ‘apprentice made’...
Seems to me it could be worth worth following him. He uses the same titles in his sales as the original sellers. Consequently you can find the original easily at the cheaper price and buy it from under him.
As lots of others have noted above my grail jacket tends towards the next one I want/need. My current grail jacket is an Aero Sunburst in Natural Vicenza. I missed out on this one while taking advice from ‘the fashion police’ (my wife), who dislikes natural leather...
Altered Carbon on Netflix and American Gods on Amazon so far. Next in line is Mad Men. Our theatre trip to see the stage version of cabaret was cancelled so I bought the dvd on eBay (it’s not available to stream except for a grainy version on YouTube. I dug out the old DVD player and had to buy...
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