From last post, I was sick of getting fake Horween jackets off Taobao, so I sourced my own horween Vermont in camel color from Mavericks' thanks to @Canuck Panda on tips and advice on staining and sourcing.
I had Tony Leather make a custom jacket from it. I have contacted other companies(HDK...
so having brought a Cidu horween jacket, or they claim, i'm pretty sure it's not horween.
I think they just show the reverse side and use some chinese tanned cow.
Red tornado does not have official store outside of china.
AliExpress is just resellers that guy from source and ship it out.
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could you not strip the finish like how you would strip the alden shells? ergo bye bye squeaking.
With rubbing alcohol and then recondition with bick 4 if not black, then something more nutritious if black color
it's not bad, but unlined so it's very sticky in the summer, the material is very cardboardy, I would recommend red tornado's lined wax canvas, RGT copy, it's probably build better than the original RGT and softer drapes better than the one you've linked.
Then there are the next tier up, like...
Since most suggestions have long long wait time.
You could get a exact copy from china, someone did a comparison between fw and the top chinese jacket makers here, and you can custom the size to fit you. You can even get Maryam hosrebutts, CFS kudu or different shinki if that is what u want...
yes they do, but that is not shared across countries/local customs you head back to, at least not for Canada in 2018.
Unless of course they got rid of the custom forms you have to fill out and start tracking your purchases, i'm sure there is a "Act" or w.e that the gov have to pass to allow...
walk through custom with brand new jacket, remove the tag, who is gonna know? Don't declare it. Win-Win, and you can get the japan consumer tax back if you are a foreigner.
this is typical out off china, the sample attached leather they have is tanned in china as well.
they do this to show that the leather is actually horse and not some fake stuff.
Cost less than 100 usd out of china fyi
Horween shrunken horse butt for jacket is something close to the one ring !
Horween do not like to tan horse butts, since their cordovan make so much $.
Only smaller horses raws hides gets processed as hosrebutts.
Anyone else remember Nick horween talking about skiving and how the hide is no...
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