Fivestar Leather Jacket custom made, all wool 40's style Sports Jacket
with 100% cotton lining showed up today...
This time I went a tad wider to wear a sweater comfortable underneath:
Fit pictures:
In fact, I already had and have a few Thedis leather jackets, but when it comes to laser straight stitching, his leather jackets cannot be surpassed. Also not from FW etc. the thickness of the seams used are another matter...
As far as I know, RMC had serious problems with the quality of their leather jackets about 3-4 years ago. Unfortunately, I don't know how it looks today... I didn't have any such faults with my RMC jackets.
After my retro jacket 40's Sports Style Jacket "Westerner" from FiveStar Leather in Goatskin, this time I ordered the same jacket but in cloth fabric with some leather applications. I have to say the guys at FiveStar Leather did a fantastic job... the jacket fits perfectly.
Right at the time i opened the thread the song "you sexy thing" from hot chocolate was playing in my radio... fits perfectly with the jacket and takes me back to my teenage years. Sexy jacket, have fun with it!
In fact, I've had my hands on countless leathers/jackets over the years and three leathers in particular stood out for me: This steerhide from Himel, the Shinki HH uses in my Brakeman from FW and the Sheepskin from the B-6 from Eastman... but as always, this is of course a personal matter.
As mentioned in the WAYWT thread, I absolutely love the American chrome re veg tan Oak Steerhide. The pictures speak volumes: The color changes like a chameleon, from shades of brown to muddy depending on the sunlight...
The twist in the jacket also gives it an extremely comfortable fit!
Oops! That might be quite difficult. I don't know how many Pinecrest have been produced so far. Besides my jacket, I've only seen FL member @RiceKnight's jacket, who bought it from the same seller... Possibly a few made their way to far east (Japan, Korea) but there are little to no infos on the...
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