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...
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...
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...
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...
First of all, I'm really happy to have found this forum, totally by accident, as I've had a "thing" about fedoras and leather jackets for years and I never realized there were others around with similar sartorial interests.
Here's my situation: I used to have a nice beat-up old Avirex...
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