Recent content by Bammerman

love that mouton Just a quick $0.02 to say that I recently bought a bomber-type jacket with a removeable mouton collar - and I LOVE that collar. It feels terrific against my neck, and in really cold weather it is super-warm - much warmer than a scarf. And because it's removeable, I won't have...

This weekend I watched A Place in the Sun, a great movie (murder or accidental drowning? based on Dreiser's An American Tragedy) from 1951 with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Raymond Burr (!) et al. Clift's character, George Eastman, is wearing a terrific leather jacket in...

Thanks, all ...for the replies. I think that's the jacket for me, all right. I particularly appreciate the direction to Club Obi Wan, where I found many instructive threads. Now I just have to decide which of my fountain pen collection to auction off on eBay to pay for this jacket...

I've seen a fair number of posts on this forum about Wested's jackets, and I've looked at their website. As a result, I'm seriously thinking of buying a Wested IJ jacket. But the pictures aren't very good on the Wested website, so I'm wondering if any of you Wested owners have some photos you...

Think how many billions of them there are So just what is the matter with beards and armpits? If the world population is presently 6,497,981,023 then there are some 12,995,962,046 human armpits on the planet today. Don't diss all those pits! And assuming, just to make the math easy on me...

shoes and hat, that makes sense Thanks to both of you for replying. Pilgrim, your suggestion to key the hat to the shoes makes sense, because if it's cold enough for me to be wearing my overcoat, all people will be seeing of my clothes (after all, I'll be taking both hat and overcoat off once...

Subject line says it all... Should I match my hat color to my overcoat color (I only have one, charcoal color, so that limits me to gray or black, I think) or to my suit color or sportsjacket color? In the latter case, I can then wear my brown hat. What do you think? Is there a federal...

I highly recommend Pelikan I've owned - and used - many fountain pens over the years, and while there are several brands I could recommend, if you particularly want a pen that "sucks the ink up out of the bottle", you want a Pelikan. They have been using the same mechanism for many decades...

in my mind, I still weigh 150 ...like I did for most of my life. It's hard to change your self-concept, isn't it? More seriously: I wonder why Neil Cooper USA still says to go for your "normal size" (or words to that effect). In any case, thanks for your counsel. No point in getting a...

Thanks, Baggers and Major Nick Danger ...for the helpful and encouraging advice. I think it looks like something I might be able to deal with. Now whether I can get into a size 40 is something else altogether....

As I've said elsewhere, I'm shopping for a (used) Cooper A2. I've found a great deal on one - a 50th anniversary commemorative A-2 from 1995, inside lining has a picture of a WWII flight crew - because it has a blemish: the previous owner, unfortunately, glued stars to the epaulets (!). The...

I was looking at a Cooper A2, offered for sale on an auction site, which was described as goatskin. When I asked the seller whether there was a label in the jacket stating it was goatskin or how he knew it was goatskin, this is what he replied: "All Coopers are said to be Goatskin...

Rinterstate, wanna sell it? If it's just sitting in your closet, you might want to sell it, and I'm in the market. If interested, we should take this offline; email me at bammerman@rocketmail.com. In any case, thank you for your reply and your advice. I am still undecided about size. I've...

Thanks, Green Papaya! I appreciate the advice. I want a good fit but but I have to be comfortable - don't want to feel constricted.

two examples Many years ago I worked at the American Consulate General in Lyon, France. One of the French employees wore what I always thought was a plain wool overcoat in the wintertime, until one day I noticed that the inside was lined with fur. Very discreet and understated, very classy...