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    Please opinion on this leather jacket fit

    Yeah I’ve often thought the same. Takes you out of a bit when you realize that the inflation adjusted price of Rolex sports watches through the 90s is cheaper than Tudor’s price point today! (It’s actually even lower than that because before 2010, it was extremely common to receive a big...
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    Johnson Leather Jacket

    The close up shows the brown stitching. (I didn't want super high contrast, but I did want contrast, so I went with brown both because it's not the TFL olive and because my briefly owned 50s Cal had brown thread.)
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    Johnson Leather Jacket

    By the time I saw it (which was after I paid for the jacket), a number of TFLers (or so I assume) had already seen it I think, haha.
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    Johnson Leather Jacket

    Thank you, Professor X! Props to Canuck for putting me onto the shrunken horse before my SF trip.
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    Johnson Leather Jacket

    Canuck's crescents have me beaten on the cool factor, but I just saw a photo of my jacket on their Instagram!
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    Premature Wear on lining of Aero Highwayman

    Enjoy the constant relines. While I wouldn’t do it, I’m glad it’s keeping machinists employed!
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    Please opinion on this leather jacket fit

    I wish I could be one of those guys who picked up a GMT-Master from the PX in the 70s and never took it off. (Mind you, at least part of that isn't because of hobby tendencies or greed, or even how affordable they were then. New watches with their blingy trims and finishes designed to never age...
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    Premature Wear on lining of Aero Highwayman

    I'd actually missed that you got that hem layer added when I first glanced at your post, but that only makes it stranger to me. This is such an odd and inevitable thing to consider a flaw. It's just how friction works.
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    Premature Wear on lining of Aero Highwayman

    I promise I don't mean this in a rude way at all, but what exactly is the big deal about this? The idea of having a workwear jacket relined because of one tiny wear hole seems a bit ridiculous to me. Virtually every jacket that gets real wear, unless it has an extremely thick/stiff/warm lining...
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    JL cafe racer fit pictures - comments pls

    This looks to fit you well.
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    Please opinion on this leather jacket fit

    There's more to it than this. You can generally go by the size tag when you are buying from a British/American maker like Schott, Lewis, Aero, Vanson, etc because chest size in inches is a universally understood thing in Anglo culture and tailoring. However, the Japanese don't use inches, so to...
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    NWT Addict Japan AD-02 Black Teacore Sheepskin Double Rider sz 42 and 44 both sizes

    Given the condition, why don't you just return it?
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    AERO's undersized zips

    Ah but who I mean as the people who pushed back were the TFL types, the most vocal of the buyers even if we're not the full number. That's why I'm saying it's a good thing that the prevailing view here has shifted in favour of the YKK Universals.
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    Ask a Question, Get An Answer About Outerwear

    MASH Japan
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    AERO's undersized zips

    Probably because he was at Aero when they tried to do that and people pushed back demanding Talon, haha. But I think the market has matured in that respect, or at least I hope so.
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    AERO's undersized zips

    I think the YKK zip basically delivers on that need. The problem is they don't emphasize that aspect of it. I like how they've started to restrict leather choice on some jackets (where a stiff or soft leather wouldn't make sense, for example, so it still looks right); it would be cool if for...
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    Doubts about authenticity of Real McCoy's Buco J100.

    I'm not mocking you to be clear, it's just funny to think of. The only leather I have that's so strong smelling (and I love the smell of it) is Schott's horsehide. Everything else just smells neutral after being out of the box in my experience. Even my Horween products.
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    Please opinion on this leather jacket fit

    Again, why not buy the US market model which has a better leather and pattern? The 689 is right there lol. This fetishizing of JDM models needs to stop. I thought they had something special to them too until I tried them all on. The only one that actually has some kind of 'edge' is the Shinki...
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    Please opinion on this leather jacket fit

    These don’t look comparable at all. It’s not a matter of break in. Bear in mind that people on this site, though that’s shifting a bit, often like their jackets practically popping at the seams. So keep that in mind when people are quick to say something is a good fit. IMO it’s often because...
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    Doubts about authenticity of Real McCoy's Buco J100.

    I feel sympathetically embarrassed reading the CS explanation that a 15 year old jacket might not smell like it’s freshly tanned.

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