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    How many new jackets do you have coming (and how many potential ones)?

    Butter or Vaseline?
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    Vanson Maverick

    Seam vs raglan are basically a completely different type of garment though. With raglan you have much more room although even then not infinite. Like I have a Sugar Cane shirt with a kimono type sleeve so I can wear it in two different sizes; the medium fits like a normal shirt with the...
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    Vanson Maverick

    Raglan shoulders are a completely different method of construction. Going off what Stu and TFLers say, you could have shoulder seams at basically your neck and it would all be fine if the sleeves are long enough!
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    Vanson Maverick

    I will fight this until the end. Shoulder length absolutely matters. If it's narrower than you, you can't wear the garment, no matter what people here or Stu say.
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    Hillside USA Horsehide Samples

    Algood’s Hillside find.
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    Hillside USA Horsehide Samples

    I guess I'm glad you like it but I don't know that their prices are actually low enough to justify the compromise. Their price point, new and used, is pretty comparable to Vanson.
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    Coat for a Corduroy or Tweed Sport Coat

    Lots of things will work, just obviously not a formal coat. Ulster coats, covert coats, polo coats, greatcoats, etc are good options.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    A lot of people seem to think (it's not their fault; it's something culture has forgotten) that a good fit means a completely flat smooth back, but it's generally the opposite. There needs to be extra space there even in fabric, let alone leather, for proper range of movement.
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    Does anyone make a short jacket (B2 length or touch longer for example) leather outside sheepskin lined inside like an aero Shawl Collar Barnstormer?

    Aero would be a good port of call here because they can do a shearling lining option for many of the half belts and Highwayman. I think he means a rugged leather on the outside like steer, horse, goat.
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    Iron Heart Nagoya

    IHUK selling items for markup + British VAT is one thing. Having a global monopoly such that even sales by stores in the U.S. are handled through them and incorporate that cost is another still. I don’t give Iron Heart Japan a pass for it to be clear. I don't see them as passive in giving...
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    Iron Heart Nagoya

    This is the thing. Many of my friends are avid buyers and cite the customer service but if you are selling something for double its actual retail price, then you can afford to give all the service in the world. Like the flippers who sell Rolexes at double MSRP will have the thing overnighted to you.
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    Iron Heart Nagoya

    It’s a really disgusting enterprise which doesn’t get the heat it deserves. Basically some reseller labelled itself “Iron Heart UK” and then strong armed Iron Heart into giving them a monopoly on all foreign sales, including from other foreign shops, so Giles and co get their margin no matter...
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    Leather jacket sizing, too big or small?

    I feel like it's Instagram and word of mouth for locals, then more fashion brand OEM manufacturing than they can handle, so there's no need to do more.
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    Walden Miller "Magnum" steerhide motorcycle jacket

    I remember Sator (who was something of a subject matter expert on tailoring on the forums about 15 years ago, until he married a woman who disliked menswear so he turned against it) talking about how lots of the fairly recent (60s and 70s for instance) Australian tailoring had more handwork than...
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    Wise words to live by (jacket related)

    Most of the main points have made, so I'll add this: don't feel like owning/wearing a leather jacket needs to change the way you wear the rest of your clothes. Especially don't get a giant chain wallet, neck tattoos, stitchdown boots, etc to "match" your jacket. You'll simply look ridiculous...
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    Leather jacket sizing, too big or small?

    Every other American woman owns this jacket except she was wise enough to pay less than $100 for it lol.
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    Leather jacket sizing, too big or small?

    Yeah I was mentioning the Johnson stuff just to explain to him who they are, not to rag on his original reaction. It's totally understandable that he'd have no idea because they are primarily a white label brand; like how a random person, even a fashionable one, probably won't know what Caruso...
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    Vanson! Vanson! Vanson!

    My Octagon was the last one at Vanson, there for years before I spotted it I think. It's a sort of light-mid mottled tan.
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    No more Schott forum

    Not necessarily. The Schott forum was a holdover from when companies often made their own in-house forum software. I expect whoever coded it is long gone.
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    No more Schott forum

    I had no idea. Can you let the person know it would be great if they even locked it to new posts but left the archive up? I'll voice the same when I visit Schott later this month.

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