New Alexander Irvin

[m444uk]

What's the view on this ? Certainly looks warm.

http://www.alexanderleathers.com/milita ... acket.html

 

[Anonymous]

they must all be using the same photographer

 

[Roughwear]

For some reason this jacket reminds me of an Aero Irvin! The rounded collar is very much like Links jackets. The zips look familiar. Aces High and ELC produce more authentic looking Irvins IMO and I'm hoping Alexander Irvins get better and better.

 

[m444uk]

I wonder if Will Lauder didn't just take a copy of all the Aero patterns before he left.
He had a hand in some of them http://www.alexanderleathers.com/sale/m ... jacke.html

The drop-down menu on the non-sale jackets is interesting. Every dimension including shoulder width is selectable in half inch increments.
This really puts the onus on the customer to measure themselves accurately. Get the shoulder width wrong and sleeve length will
be out too. I don't see how the potentially large number of custom sized returns can be absorbed without buckrtupting the company :?

 

[PaulGT3]

"For some reason this jacket reminds me of an Aero Irvin!"

Funniest thing I have heard all day! Thanks Andrew!!

 

[flyboy]

At least it looks just as fluffy and teddybear-like as the Aero I once had.

 

[m444uk]

The price seems a bit elevated. The D1 + B-3 were £400-£450 at the introductory price.

I couldn't resist buying a jerky horse Roadster @ £300. It's made of a mid-weight (1.4 mm according to my callipers) veg tanned horse sourced from an English tannery.
This is what it looks like after 2 days wear in the dry. Already plenty of character developing. Something a chrome tanned leather wont have. In time the black will wear thin and the tan base will give a translucent effect.
Construction quality is as good as any Eastman I've had.

 

[Otter]

I liked the Barnstormer clone they had in the sale pages, i would have bought one of those but the do not have it in my size! Probably just as well for my addiction. :mrgreen:

I have one of the Aero Irvins and boy is it fluffy, about twice the volume of my Eastman B-3 and just about twice as warm.

 

[m444uk]

I have one of the Aero Irvins and boy is it fluffy, about twice the volume of my Eastman B-3 and just about twice as warm.

I've been wearing my Eastman Perry type B-3 continuously for months as it's so cold ! In fact it doesn't have enough loft for the coldest days. A 20 mph wind at -2
requires donning an expedition quality goose down jacket. 3/4 inch shearling is strictly for summer use in the Uk these days.

 

[PaulGT3]

Geesh,
I wish I would live somewhere like that. Its been 80F for a month!!

 

[Andreart]

The price seems a bit elevated. The D1 + B-3 were £400-£450 at the introductory price.

I couldn't resist buying a jerky horse Roadster @ £300. It's made of a mid-weight (1.4 mm according to my callipers) veg tanned horse sourced from an English tannery.
This is what it looks like after 2 days wear in the dry. Already plenty of character developing. Something a chrome tanned leather wont have. In time the black will wear thin and the tan base will give a translucent effect.
Construction quality is as good as any Eastman I've had.

I hate those tallon zip pulls they use, it gets stuck and its a pain in the ass to un stick and get loose. bad design. its too squared off where it meets the zip box.

 

[Andreart]

The price seems a bit elevated. The D1 + B-3 were £400-£450 at the introductory price.

I couldn't resist buying a jerky horse Roadster @ £300. It's made of a mid-weight (1.4 mm according to my callipers) veg tanned horse sourced from an English tannery.
This is what it looks like after 2 days wear in the dry. Already plenty of character developing. Something a chrome tanned leather wont have. In time the black will wear thin and the tan base will give a translucent effect.
Construction quality is as good as any Eastman I've had.

I hate those tallon zip pulls they use, it gets stuck and its a pain in the ass to un stick and get loose. bad design. its too squared off where it meets the zip box.

that HH is very similar to the Aero i had made durring the melt down, its all broken in and its awesome. mine was brown jerky but it was a spray finish, not doing a spray finish anymore, analine all the way.

 

[m444uk]

I hate those tallon zip pulls they use, it gets stuck and its a pain in the ass to un stick and get loose. bad design. its too squared off where it meets the zip box.

The zips are cheapo YKK like on most of the £300 Alexander jackets. If they ever bust I'd put on RiRi. Precision Swiss made and vastly superior to anything else. This one is over 20 yeras old and seen a ton of use. Zero wear.

 

[Andreart]

swiss zips. justs rolls off the tongue, mine has talons which i dont care for.

 

[regius]

Mind me mention something about the Alexander A2 here?

I ordered one with seal brown goat (I love that goat, the same one I had on Aero's Cheyenne). It's not exactly WW2 undertone of olive green, instead it's a brown and cordovan undertone, but still multi-layered and superb in quality.

I asked Amanda which 1942 model they copied (as said in their description), but she said they didn't copy any, just a generic design. however, the label is a 1939 Werber label, of course, with modifications. 39-2951p.

When it arrives we will see if the box stitch on the pocket is done right, for now, it's obvious the epaulettes are not Werber's epaulettes.

 

[Anonymous]

A comfortable 70 today were I sit :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Skip]

A comfortable 70 today were I sit :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

:?:

 

[m444uk]

I wonder if Will Lauder didn't just take a copy of all the Aero patterns before he left.

I must be Nostradamus, the Aero court case has subsequently shown that is exactly what the fellow detained at HM pleasure did !

 

[John Lever]

They still use the skins that Ken calls Teddy bear fleece. For me the arms don't look right still too tubular, bu it's probably very well made though.

 

[m444uk]

I see they have added a new UK supplier for veg tanned hides

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HNQEM32dF4