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Having just bought a Vespa, I had half a notion to buy a fishtail parka... I know, I know, it's a slippery slope!

Anyway, since thinking about buying a parka, I'm seeing them everywhere! I see a lot of girls and women wearing them, and some clothes shops have wall-to-wall displays of them. They're not the original US army-issue ones, and some are a neater cut, and quite stylish. Have they always been popular, or is there currently a resurgence in parkas as a fashion item?


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 2:30 pm
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Germany ex military is what scooter boys wear. I did for 10 years.

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Posted : 09/11/2016 2:33 pm
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I just found my old leather bike jacket, Weise one. Going to use it over wintee for my field archery shoots. No need for the bracer 🙂

Whats the best way to rejunvanate dry leather.

Sorry for interloping on a Mod thread 😉

PS I had a Honda Hornet so I'm allowed to wear biker jacket 😉


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 2:38 pm
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saddle soap spray.


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 2:39 pm
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Dry leather... damp cloth.

Not hand cream or any other such nonsense


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 2:41 pm
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I've not tried it, but it seems that [url= http://www.duckswax.co.uk/ ]DucksWax[/url] would be a good option to rejuvenate leather.

In light of the recent down jacket thread, I'm unable to guarantee that DucksWax hold death certificates for their dead ducks.


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 2:50 pm
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They're back in fashion it seems, fair few teenages going to the college the back of my office wearing them, plus teenage kids of colleagues, wish I'd have kept mine now.

90's fasions are being taken over by early 2000's, gonna dust of ny chunky Road cords and my blue and white addidas superstars.


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 2:55 pm
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Whats the best way to rejunvanate dry leather

Or you could try neats foot oil. Softens it up a treat.


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 3:21 pm
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I used saddle soap on my crusty leather shorts.

Worked a treat, lovely and soft again. No chaffing


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 3:24 pm
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I used saddle soap on my crusty leather shorts.

😯


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 3:25 pm
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Prawny - gonna dust of ny chunky Road cords

Don't be stingy, buy some new ones: http://www.roadjeans.com/product/jumbo-phat-pant-road-cords_fw/


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 3:44 pm
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Thanks guys. Saddle soap it is 🙂


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 6:11 pm
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My daughter has been wearing one for the past couple of years when the weather has been appropriate.


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 6:15 pm
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Posted : 09/11/2016 6:16 pm
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A scooter?

Sir will be requiring one of these:
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....some of these:
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And you will meet lots of very sarcastic people who drive these:
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🙂


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 6:27 pm
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Just looked up my Weise bike jacket and it's over £250..... second hand 😯

COAC

*Getting that figure is another question altogether.


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 8:33 pm
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[url= https://www.liquidleather.com/furniture-leather-products/22-gt11-leather-conditioner-5060033829776.html ]For leather restoration I've always rated Gliptones...[/url]


 
Posted : 09/11/2016 9:00 pm