New Aero back designs

[Sloan1874]

I suppose it's only something people around would notice any way

 

[thor]

Agreed. I assume, though, taking into account the Japanese dedication to authenticity,
they took the idea from an actual vintage jacket. Personally I think the look is better
with the adjusters and belt level.

+1

 

[Fanch]

I imagine that virtually everyone thinks the look is better with the adjusters at belt level.

 

[majormajor]

The lower buckles seems to be a particularly Japanese prediliction (I'm sure someone will prove me wrong, though!)

Halfbelts and buckles at the same level seems logical to me.

I noticed Aero did a pre-prod 20's Halfbelt with the buckles much lower. It was the one thing that stopped me buying it:eeek:

 

[Sloan1874]

There's another 1920s single colour HB appeared on Aero's sale page. I see the design seems to have settled. Great looking jacket.

http://www.aeroleatherclothing.com/product-detail.php?id=1417

 

[majormajor]

Those back seams look to be non-pleated. Or maybe it is just the photo.......:eeek:

 

[Sloan1874]

Not sure if the pleats applied to the two-tone and not the standard. Swithering between the two-tone and Irvin as next purchase actually.

 

[majormajor]

Not sure if the pleats applied to the two-tone and not the standard. Swithering between the two-tone and Irvin as next purchase actually.

Single tone 20's HB for me. Irvins are just a touch too bear-like for me!

 

[Sloan1874]

I feel the need to give free rein to my inner Douglas Bader (or something).

 

[majormajor]

I feel the need to give free reign to my inner Douglas Bader (or something).

Good one, Craig. And the weather up your way is a bit colder than here in sunny England!!:eeek:

 

[wild_balls]

The lower buckles seems to be a particularly Japanese prediliction (I'm sure someone will prove me wrong, though!)

Halfbelts and buckles at the same level seems logical to me.

I noticed Aero did a pre-prod 20's Halfbelt with the buckles much lower. It was the one thing that stopped me buying it:eeek:

It didn't stop me!shhhhhhhh


Cheers Joakim

 

[majormajor]

It didn't stop me!shhhhhhhh


Cheers Joakim

Congrats on the buy, Joakim!

 

[wild_balls]

Thank you, I am very curious about the lower buckles! Will post pictures when it arrives!



Joakim

 

[Sloan1874]

Funnily enough, on my first trip to Aero I tried on a LHB that belonged to Japanese guy - he'd sent it back to have a furry collar attached - and the buckles were barely two or three inches from the bottom of it. Couldn't work out why either, other than he was massively tall and wore it as a half-belt. :eeek:

 

[handymike]

I'm really interested to see what the lower buckles do to the siluhuette of the jacket, lower buckles might have kept out a draft by cinching at the hips on a cycle jacket as opposed to waist height on a sports/fashion jacket.

 

[wild_balls]

On some early 20's and some 30's halfbelts originals the buckles was placed very low! Maybe Aero did a test according to the original designs of that era?


Cheers, Joakim

 

[Sloan1874]

I was told that the Japanese guy just wanted it modified that way. Don't think it would happen now, as it didn't really suit the LHB's style. It's a long body, so the side-straps kind of 'mark-off' the waist by pulling it in slightly (at least that's what it does for me) which gives it a bit of shape and stops it from looking too tubular.

 

[Sloan1874]

Good one, Craig. And the weather up your way is a bit colder than here in sunny England!!:eeek:

Until you've been forced to stand next to the Forth on a freezing January morning while the police drag the river for bodies, you don't know the meaning of cold!

 

[majormajor]

Until you've been forced to stand next to the Forth on a freezing January morning while the police drag the river for bodies, you don't know the meaning of cold!

When my daughter was younger, we took her to Lapland to see the "real" Santa Claus.

Now that WAS cold! We spent the afternoon on a frozen lake with a huge bonfire burning in the middle of it!:eeek:

 

[IXL]

I have been one of the guys IN the river, looking for a missing torso, on a freezing February night. You are correct, sir, I learned the meaning of "cold."