Mine is the jacket Ken is wearing in Craig's feature.
Yes thats the one, same as the one of me and the Hayabusa, you can just make out the Hepolite wing badge on the left breast in each pic.So this one then?
Didn't the text say it was a Highwayman?
Didn't the text say it was a Highwayman?
Scotland_on_Sunday said:He created the jacket after 23-year-old customer John Taylor asked him to come up with a design based on a 1950s biker style. His response was a deceptively simple, hip-skimming jacket that became his calling card. The original cost Taylor a week’s wages, but it became a fashion standard among Scottish students, who admired it on the backs of Deacon Blue, The Rezillos and Wet Wet Wet. By the 1990s, he was taking orders from Japan.
Last month, Taylor returned the first Highwayman to Calder and it now hangs on his office wall – 30 years on, it is a collector’s item but timeless enough to remain wearable. Taylor admits to having a serious Aero habit.
I think it was his zip.
Hi Tom, I agree with you about the jacket wrinkles posts etc, just that these days if you bought something that was not right people will moan because they pay big $$$ £££ €€€ for things.The whole point of my embarassment over the length of the Aero Statement thread was that I don't want to see a company like this going down because the swampin' flood of leather wrinkle closeup photos and ounce and oz inspections... it would be terrible to loose the jackets and to see quite a few scots loosing their job - because the customers aren't genuine and authentic anymore either---
No authentic pilot was checking his leatherjacket wrinkles before their missions - I personally interpreted at all souls day once in all the military cemeteries in and around Budapest, saw the US memorial and the British and comonwealth cemetery at Solymár (smalltown northwest of Budapest) - all those men were downed airforcemen. I think none of the fallen heros had the last thought whether their collar is fully symmetric or the Hide is correct... None of the civilians back in the day had enough money to have a jacket collection. To compare their jackets. My ex-wifes late doctor grandpa had a single motorcycling jacket, that is still workable and my late grandpa also never talked about the correct buttons of his rapid reaction corps artillery officers uniform, when he told his war stories in WW2 - this was not the main issue. Surviving the war was. The main issue today is to have a few manufacturers who still concern about quality and durability. Like Ken and Aero does. And back in the day companies were not better: Buco etc did also economize on leathers and production.
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the posts on this particular thread more than most others, and I am fascinated at seeing the human side applied to a small family run company and its roots. Keep up the good work Aero!!!!
Great article but I hate it when newspapers don't caption their photos. Who was the red-headed girl pictured, is that Holly?
It is indeed!
Back in 1982 I doubt Duran's JT would have been seen dead in Battersea. But me, a mere nobody hahaWow. Some great early days customers before he was making leather jackets. The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Sweet. Nice article.
When I first saw John Taylor I thought of Duran Duran as he is the bass player. Then realized it is not the same person.