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Looks pretty good. I sent them my black goat Roadster to be re lined in shearling with a mouton collar a couple of weeks ago. It’s going to be next winter by the time I’ll get to use it though. I didn’t think they had that really nice goat anymore.

Decided I’m going to keep it. Sorry to the couple of people who PMed me this week and my late replies. The site hasn’t been working for me very well and it won’t load properly on any of the computers in the house.

Clearly too subtle for me....

Al Bowlly was very popular in the thirties. He sang at all the big nightclubs and fashionable cafes in London which the idle rich frequented, and was very big on the wireless. His biggest successes were with the bandleader and songwriter Ray Noble, in whose bands he sang for years. He went with...

I meant the picture put up by tmitchell59 of his. Post 14.

Having seen the pictures of the original with the same belt and pocket placement I now think it’s completely right. If that is how it’s meant to be then it’s correct, and it’s only our modern tastes and preconceptions of what a jacket should be which gets in the way of our vision.

John Lever has told me that it isn’t as old as I was told when I bought it and dates to around 2000. That probably fits in better because the seller was a bit vague as to how long it had been in the wardrobe...

I do one for tomorrow. It’s the nylon translucent type.

Quite agree. I don’t think it’s any more outrageous than dog walkers or house sitters. The OP gets to wear new and different expensive leather jackets all the time too. What if one was nicked, or damaged in a freak gardening accident though?

I was slightly intrigued by this thread because the Mr Freedom I knew was a clothing shop in King’s Road and then Kensington back in the dark ages. I had a multi coloured Mr Freedom shirt from the Church Road shop which I kept for years. The place was fashionable, and like all fashionable things...

Tarzan 1912. The lost World 1912. Just two off the top of my head and there were plenty of others.

Fit looks good. But if you’re unhappy about the belt and pockets now it will only grow...

Stick with it and wear it, and sit on it and knead it. It fits so well and the colour is so good you need it.

I’m not one for putting lots of quotes under my handle. But I do like Maynard Keynes reply to someone who accused him of inconsistency. “When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do?"

I am selling my Eastman BoB size 44. It’s an earlier one from the late nineties or around the turn of the millennium from the view of these who know here. Andrew the go to Irvin man says that these earlier ones are the best ones. Before the broken hide. I bought it a couple of years ago from...