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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    And to speak to his objective, it is throwing in one more variable for Five Star, one that I don't think they have much experience with.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    This looks like a textile jacket, not a leather jacket, though it looks terrible even in this instance. If you were trying to find an example of a textile jacket for men with darts you could have posted any suit coat that's not an American Ivy League cut or Anderson & Sheppard drape cut. Darts...
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    Vanson! Vanson! Vanson!

    Where are you based? Rather than doing guess work, if you’re in the U.S. you should go to a Vanson dealer with the measuring tools. They have a pretty extensive fit system. That said, I think a Maverick or similar jacket is sort of a waste of a custom jacket order because the pretty simple...
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    Ask a Question, Get An Answer About Outerwear

    I'm assuming he looked during a 10% off stock sale or something.
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    Ask a Question, Get An Answer About Outerwear

    The prices now are the same as a year ago. I just checked.
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    Ask a Question, Get An Answer About Outerwear

    They went up about two years ago. Honestly they were underpriced at the previous price point. I don't know how they covered labor/materials with that.
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    What do you consider high rise?

    This too, but even in smaller sizes you might have a seemingly high rise measurement but they're actually cut to wear at the hip.
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    What do you consider high rise?

    As with so many things I try to explain here, numbers are meaningless. There are jeans with 12"+ rises that are low rise, because the waist is designed to sit on the hips. Wrangler Cowboy Cut isn't high rise; it just seems so after the 2000s fad of revealed-butt rises.
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    Aero lining

    N.b. (for OP and any other newcomers), cotton sateen doesn't mean satin. It just means a smoother surface; the fabric itself is comparable in strength to the drill, though less stiff. I mention this because there was confusion on this matter a few years ago here.
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    Aero lining

    Everything goes with the cordovan leather. For the lining, do cotton drill or sateen.
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    Hooked on jackets? Why?

    You see a version of this in the watch world and people who think someone is 'supposed' to have one watch in every category. A side effect of this is that they treat what genuinely are daily wear watches as though they are extra formal, because someone has to have a watch in every category...
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    Hooked on jackets? Why?

    I agree with this. On the one hand I think Carlos has the same LW sizing as me... on the other hand I will talk someone out of selling a jacket I want if I think it's a bad idea. Like KBlake and that perfect Monarch.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Ha, I'm the opposite. I wish Nomex still had that Nylon-like shine but it hasn't in recent decades. I got a new-in-package (matte, looks like cotton twill) Nomex CWU for about $150. That seems like it would offer what you're looking for.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    They actually already do repros of a bunch of CWU jackets so I would just order one of those directly.
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    The Real McCoy’s J-100 fit comparison between the old model (BJ9110) and new model (BJ19110)

    Re: skiving, I find I can usually tell extreme skiving by feeling the seams, but I don't know if I could distinguish slight skiving vs unskived seams, even though I prefer the latter.
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    Vintage Schott-Beck Motorcycle Jackets

    Our belts look identical, in both leather and construction, except mine lacks the Buco brand stamp (of course) and the studs. I'm looking at it right now since it's near my computer, but I need to go to an event; will take pictures when I'm back.
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    Simmons Bilt vs. Aero Half Belt sizing question

    I think dropping sizes to get a slimmer fit is usually not going to get you there, like people who downsize the boxy Highwayman just end up with a weirdly-shaped jacket. You need a jacket that's supposed to be that slim. Your jacket above is a CHP. If you get a slim pattern (like 1930s half...
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    Is this Horse Hide from 5 *?

    I see no reason it couldn’t be horse, but that doesn’t mean it would be any good. You’ve been around long enough to know better, but people need to get out of their heads the notion that if horse then good. It’s a clearly mediocre (at best) leather. I think even the more experienced of us...
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    Schott and Coronado casual belts?

    I don't know if I would call either of the above a "name brand" belt. They're just CXL belts; I don't think anyone is pulling the belt off to show that Schott or Coronado is embossed on the underside of the letter–not that anyone would recognize those names anyway. If you want something like...
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    Hooked on jackets? Why?

    In this case I mean more like, for example, looking at Alden Indy boot order forms while my CXL Indy is sitting in the basement unworn for three years.

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