It seems from Simmons website photos that most of their patterns have been updated to a slimmer, body-contouring style with various collar shapes, this is a nice thing to see.
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These Swedish coats are amazing, well built & the goat is large and strong, the lining is high quality & beautiful. I just received one today from the UK, albeit the ebayer sent the wrong jacket, it’s still of the same design.
When I saw “cake”, my immediate reflex was “bread” in the SNL joke on Oprah. Oprah: just don’t make me run against bread...
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I hear you & that’s how I approach a jacket myself, except when buying from these vintage reproduction makers, they care more about period correctness, & whatever specimens they laid their hands on & took apart may well had not been a tailor made item. If your wife insists on the flare detail...
Thank you for the photos. I think the lower portion fits just fine, I’d be very satisfied with this fit, coming from my Hercules where the waist band section bulge out instead of cinch in. one may say the Hercules is a very different cut altogether, I may agree, because I owned two originals, &...
Got the Moment macro lens today, it’s out of this world!!
Heavily coated horsehide on the 60s Excelled jacket (similar to Schott)
(this one is goat)
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Amazing! I just got my own excelled HH motorcycle back from Alan too, minimal repair unlike yours, but your template is a far more interesting & rare specimen to begin with
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Speaking of patina, dunno how many of you here has seen the front cover of the Lightning magazine, you can just google it but best to view upfront. That’s a HD D pocket jacket, probably it’s the photography, the the D pocket texture against the body, the oily feel, the depth of the brown, is...
Don’t want to get people excited, so I put a question mark. Has anyone got one & could share some photos & experiences? I like the tapered collar & the sea biscuit was what got me into halfbelts. I wonder if it tapers at the waist?
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I was using the Xenvo macro/wide angle combo for iPhone. I couldn’t get the blur out, so I’m not entirely happy with all of the photos
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