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I have been a member for a few years, not so active lately. I just signed in to your new site design , but the website lists me as a New Member. This is not a major issue, but you asked us to let you know... Edit: Your software remembers my old signature catchphrase - (See below) - a line...

'Top Gun: Maverick': Patches On Tom Cruise's Jacket Spark Controversy

The Ambitious A-2 Project is looking great! I have been making things out of leather since I was about ten years old, and I am absolutely in awe of what you have done on this project. My sincere congratulations on your work.

Museum-grade replica Apollo-era NASA flight jacket December 3, 2013 – An Apollo astronaut, looking to keep the "right stuff" forefront in the public's eye, has recreated his iconic NASA-issued blue flight jacket down to the last button. Al Worden, who in 1971 flew to the moon as the pilot of...

The collar satnd question is one of style... Let me begin by saying that some of my flight jackets have collar stands and some do not. A collar stand is simply an optional style element on some vintage jackets and repros. It is a narrow band of leather sewn between the jacket and the...

The Best Mall Bomber /A-2 Jacket? I own a pair of A-2's, one G&B and one Goodwear. The Goodwear is the superior jacket hands down in almost any category of comparison, but the Goodwear is a WWII cut and the G&B is a so-called modern cut. I am just under 6 feet and weigh just under 200 pounds...

My guess is that it's what they call Bonded Leather Bonded leather or reconstituted leather is a material made of varying degrees of genuine leather combined with other substances to give the appearance of leather, but at reduced cost compared to natural leather. Bonded leather can be found in...

Uniforms always came from a variety of sources. Brooks Brothers in New York always made custom uniforms, usually for officers who could afford them going back to the Civil War. I think George Custer had his uniforms made by Brooks Brothers. Think of Jack Kennedy as a young Navy officer --...

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' jacket: The original is for sale If you wanted a Michael Jackson "Thriller" jacket in the 1980s, all it took was a trip to the mall. Now, owning the jacket Jackson wore in the groundbreaking 1983 "Thriller" music video means a trip to an auction house and a...

442RCT: why not ask they guy... 442RCT: Why not ask they guy you sold the jacket to in the original story? He is the only one who know the answer. All you can get from any of us is mere supposition. Why you find out, please share the info with us. Thanks.