My New Five Star A-1 Jacket
I love my jacket
Five Star - relatively new company, workers based in Pakistan. Owner trying to make quality era repro/repro styles at a budget price. NO ONE really does this with leather. As mentioned on VLJ, you get an 80% (to really 85-90%) excellent jacket...
thanks all - I am really looking forward to wearing it once the temps go down.
Not sure of the thickness of the leather. its soft/supple but IMO heavy-ish.
Hello All:
Sorry the photos are not better but wanted to give a HUGE shout out to Shawn and the Five Star team for the superb custom A-1. Great communication, all of my requested choices: Premium seal brown steer hide, horn buttons, seal brown knits, seal brown thread, brown cotton lining. Did...
These jackets look great. The workmanship and cut/fit is really super. There are things that fall short compared to the high-end folks however, for $200 these are incredible and looking at pics of well-worn 5 Stars, once there is lots of wear, they are comparable to the high priced...
This doesn't really add to the discussion but I just retired my last pair of vintage/selvedge jeans and have completely gone to the dark side (yet very comfortable side) of stretch jeans and lightweight tech pants (Prana). The comfort factor got the better of me and I got tired of denim dye...
IMO - Unless a black leather jacket is extremely well broken-in, has lots of patina and lots of undertones showing through, leather jackets don't look so good in black. I wear mostly black and grey clothes (cloth) so black leather goes perfectly but to me, so often black, especially a deep...
nothing coming, nothing being considered at this time. My leather jacket interest is a 10000% a spectator hobby only now. I don't even wear the few leathers remaining. However, some cool looking jackets posted by members.
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