Recent content by Mad w/o power

I don't really understand the 'dressing for yourself' thing. I personally don't dress for myself; I know who I am, and my day-to-day appearance has absolutely no effect on how I feel about or perceive myself. Basically, I dress for other people, and if I think *they* think I look good, then it...

That's interesting, I knew Vanson put the breaks on horsehide for a while, due to some legal conflict with Horween, then subsequently had problems sourcing horse hides. I wonder who's supplying them...

Higher sleeve = smaller arm hole. You can't change the height of the of the top of the arm hole; that's the top of the jacket! Simply raising the bottom of the arm hole, as opposed to making it smaller, would create a horizontal oval shape for the arm hole.

I've had my FQHH Aero Stuart for over a year now, and I live in Seattle, and ride a motorcycle. The idea of the thing getting soaked - as in, water in the leather - is comical. I've walked for over an hour in heavy, heavy rain at least a few times every month of the rainy season (September to...

...and I have no* idea where* all the *stars* came from**.

Excellent input, Himel. I'm familiar with your blog and seen the great-looking jackets you've made. Interestingly, I also ended up picking up a Jacket on eBay that I had seen on your blog! Anyway, I live in Seattle and around ten years ago I was dating a girl in Portland, so I stopped into...

Wow, I'm a little stunned; I just held these boots in my hands a few days ago. I'm sure some of you are familiar with Heller's Cafe - I used to sell him vintage leather from time to time, so every once in a while now, I go check out what he's got. Anyway, he was the winner of this auction...

I think its an age thing; black gets harder to pull off as you get older and well, larger. Black says rebellion and brown says I have to be in bed by nine, or my wife will scold me. Hahaha.

Well really, a fair amount of their jackets are an amalgamation of several classic details. Most of us dont buy an Aero with out a fair amount of modifications, the least of which being fit. I own many vintage jackets and although there are some simple style cues that were fairly consistently...

It's not something that can be ascertained by a quick look in the mirror; that will will work for checking the shoulder seams fall in the right spot or generally checking if it looks okay but when I first had my jacket on, I could not move - and this was after the 20min total it took to...

Hey guys, new guy here. I want to thank all of you for helping me make the final decision on getting an Aero jacket, as just a few pictures for a several hundred dollar jacket made over-seas can be an exceedingly risky affair. It was the testimonials and nit-picky conversations here that really...