It reminds me of how mail works here in Buffalo. All mail gets picked up and taken to a facility in Rochester, which is about 1 to 1.5 hours away. Even if that mail is going to someplace in Buffalo. I want to mail my neighbor a bday card. Goes to Rochester first.
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How many new jackets do you have coming (and how many potential ones)?
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That's your LeaterJacket Anonymous sponser, trying to keep the jacket-dope away from you
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This is why I wouldn’t ship a month old dog turd via Fed Ex. I mean my God...look what they did to Tom Hanks.
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Honestly, I'd love to end up on that island. It's pretty nice plus the two natural items to sustain life are sunlight and coconut milk. Did you know that?
Read this, it's my favourite book, out of print but available online:
http://www.thisisaprivatesale.com/an_island_to_oneself.pdf
Apparently drinking too much coconut milk will give you mad diarreah...
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As will refreshing shipment tracking pages.
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I’m cool with the tasty waves and sun but no cool buzz and ribeye? No thanks, nuke the island.
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@Marc mndt Congratulations on your new jackets. Your collection is quite nice and massive after such a short time. I really like the German cross zip (congrats @Monitor ) and I‘m not sure if if I saw this one or a similar one on German EBay Kleinanzeigen some time ago. Anyway, nice find. Even if I‘m not a A2 fan (as you know already), I like the patina on your A2!
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Thanks. I'm not a fan of A-2s either but I just needed to cross it off my list and be done with it. I'll have my tailor sew a squadron patch onto it, make it a bit more playful. I thought you had an Eastman A2?
I can't help myself, I just keep finding nice jackets everywhere. Too nice not to buy
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I miss spoke, you are right I was thinking of Brooks got mixed up with Bates who jackets I prefer. I did not mean to imply Buco and Taubers were connected
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@Marc mndt I also like the back on that Thedi (minus the side panels). So much so that I requested it when I was ordering my incoming jacket from JL. Curious to see how it looks when the fitting arrives.
perfect to run away from zombie apocalypse, but I need some boardgames for me and my imaginary friends to play together at the very least a magnetic chessboard, a volleyball won't do it. and I hope the island is not actually a shell of monster size turtle that occasionally dive into the sea to feed.
I dislike fedex, and the partner they work together here, worse than somalia pirate that company. they warehoused my small package despite I'm calling interlocal to their head office to ask what should I do to have it processed the first day I see in tracker it arrived at sorting facillity in the airport, nope they just let it sit for weeks without replying to my e-mail, and the person answering the phone was just a lip service machine girl with memorized lines, and then started correspondence for another week once day per mail kind , and quote me money for 3 weeks warehousing, for administration, charged me an interest fee for loaning me money to pay custom, why would they loan me money for, I bank transfer them the first day they inform me how much custom I should pay, if they paid it first and let my item sit in storage for an extra week of storage fee before telling me about custom fee to make money out of me, then it is on them, not me... so I only pay the custom and disputed all other bs charges they try to squeeze me with, and they negotiate the prize, and suggest me an illegal way to pay less custom and so probably they would have leverage to use against me, when I said no they use threat of sending the item back to sender and renegotiate the fee to be lower again until I think F it OK I pay that Sht and they send the package on private motorcycle with no fedex identification whatsoever within the same day after I pay the extra fee, so my package already at my local city just held hostage somewhere. bunch of crook cosplaying as courier service
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@Marc mndt I'm sure a squadron patch would make it more playful - it's a very good fit and IMO A-2's do look good on you (much better than on me).Thanks. I'm not a fan of A-2s either but I just needed to cross it off my list and be done with it. I'll have my tailor sew a squadron patch onto it, make it a bit more playful. I thought you had an Eastman A2?
I can't help myself, I just keep finding nice jackets everywhere. Too nice not to buy
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I totally understand - I was in a similar situation crossing off styles off my list a couple of years ago when I realized that for instance I really don't like A-2 style for some reason and that I want to focus more on leather types (partially still jacket styles) I really like (there are also a lot but fortunately much less than jacket styles).
Man, I'm getting older I actually owned two Eastman A-2 (I forgot one to mention last time we chatted). One was an older one in size 38 (excellent fit for me) and very well broken in HH with a beautiful patina (I received about 750€ for it when selling it on Ebay...I can't find any pics) - sometimes I regret that I sold it, not because of the style but more because of the really nice leather.
I sold another Eastman A2 (one size too big, also too long sleeves) two years ago which I don't regret - leather was quite nice but not as nice as the "vintage" one:
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...0-new-more-expensive-time-worn-version.96697/
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Those Eastmans look much nicer than this A-2 but it does make sense that you've sold them because they're serious money. Money which is better spent on a jacket style that you really like.
I bought this RL for €169. At that price it's just a fun jacket to have. It's not some particular contract, it's not historically accurate and it's not made from hh. But the leather looks nice, it's well made and it's a perfect fit. That's more than enough to scratch my A-2 itch
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This one will be coming
Late 1930s Police Jacket. Looks to be Goatskin. No makers label. Sunrise Talon Zippers always attract me. like a shiny object, A Jewel. Plenty of Collar on this one.
Late 1930s Police Jacket. Looks to be Goatskin. No makers label. Sunrise Talon Zippers always attract me. like a shiny object, A Jewel. Plenty of Collar on this one.
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The collar really makes the jacket reminds me of the collars on my Sar GolvesThis one will be coming
Late 1930s Police Jacket. Looks to be Goatskin. No makers label. Sunrise Talon Zippers always attract me. like a shiny object, A Jewel. Plenty of Collar on this one.
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Would you confirm this is tagged 42? It's hard for me to see in a previous posted pic. Thanks.
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It has the look of a West Coast jacket. That collar is substantial and could give a good clue as to the maker. Should be here in a week or so.
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you got your sizing nailed
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