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    Which Flat Head back design looks better?

    Basically this A cut was astroturfed by Lightning Magazine (FCL is very close to them). It’s sort of a weird combination of the late 2010s bad Japanese pattern type (undersized in all dimensions) and the new oversized fashion at the same time, so it’s a hyper tight chest with baggy stomach. At...
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    Is this Horse Hide from 5 *?

    This could well be horse but whatever it is is not nice.
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    Which Flat Head back design looks better?

    Definitely. But what I mean is while that would explain, say, RMC sizing it wouldn’t explain the FCL A-cut.
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    Aero Perfection - my new Cordovan FQHH Ridley

    Lining pockets are the least fancy but most effective sort of pocket. If you're to have a leather lined pocket, for it to be effective I think it needs to be all out designed to stay flat, like the police jacket or CCW gun pockets found at the police uniform companies and Vanson, which is over...
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    Which Flat Head back design looks better?

    I think even the ‘Japanese body’ explanation that fans of this cut throw out doesn’t hold, being Asian and having spent much of my life there. To suit the A-shaped cut from Fine Creek (or even the Japanese versions of western makers like Lewis), you would have to be simultaneously very weak and...
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    Ton’s on the spectrum sale! Schott, Wranglar yee haw!!!!

    I call dibs.
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    Field Leathers

    I really like this, which is saying a lot because I tend to find cafe racers the most boring design. (Even my own well-fitting one bores me.) What's the other, chrome-tanned jacket you're referring to?
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    Finds and Deals - Leather Jacket Edition

    The "Japanese tight fit" with Lewis is actually better suited to fat people, as my (very trim) Japanese friend in Tokyo discovered when Lewis Tokyo persuaded him to get 42 "Tight" instead of 42. It has this extra wide hem (like Fine Creek) making it baggy at the waist which the original Western...
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    Brown highwayman style jackets with an aggressive V taper?

    Sheene is a cafe racer with the Highwayman collar and back design so that should be right up his alley.
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    Double rider for non-motorcyclists - yay or nay? Which is your favorite?

    I don't mean to sound a shill; I mention it a lot because Aero's goat is one of my favourite leathers but rarely gets mentioned here so it sort of took me by surprise when I tried it on a stock jacket. I get more compliments on this leather than any other type; probably more than the rest put...
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    Ton’s on the spectrum sale! Schott, Wranglar yee haw!!!!

    Is the ranch coat still available? I shouldn't be eyeing this given the roughout jacket I forgot I had but...
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    Double rider for non-motorcyclists - yay or nay? Which is your favorite?

    Imo the most similar to the black Badalassi in terms of that rich lustrous black is actually the black goat.
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    Help! Quick opinion on Kreosote boots.

    That isn't what the term means in Japan either. It was just a way of differentiating between leathers that are brown at the core (really 'tea core' is an incorrect translation, because it just means literally brown core) and those that are not. I actually find jackets like the above pretty...
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    Help! Quick opinion on Kreosote boots.

    It's kind of funny how the Japanese themselves came up with 'tea core' not as a term for fading but just to describe the color of certain older leathers. Then, when the western workwear scene which was accustomed to buying fast-fading denim jumped on leather jackets from Japanese makers, they...
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    Brown highwayman style jackets with an aggressive V taper?

    Also OP, to be clear I'm not singling you out for the "calling a plain leather jacket a Highwayman" thing. Someone here started it like two years ago, which led to awkward moments like Aero seeing his post and thinking he had gotten an Aero-friendly maker to do an Aero knockoff lol. I had to...
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    Ask a Question, Get An Answer About Outerwear

    Yeah if you’ve had wool against your skin without issue I can’t imagine that was it.
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    Ask a Question, Get An Answer About Outerwear

    All wool does.
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    Rainbow Country Single Rider

    It’s fun to watch the layers of conjecture upon conjecture that develop into universally-acknowledged truths on this forum. There have been many over the years.
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    Brown highwayman style jackets with an aggressive V taper?

    That is a really bad name for the type and you should stop using it. Not least because as a jacket name it refers to a boxy straight cut design, lol. You just mean a collared leather jacket. Say that. Anyway, there are lots. Just search brown leather jacket and you’re likely to pull up a ton...
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    Brown highwayman style jackets with an aggressive V taper?

    What does “highwayman style” mean in this context? Collared straight zip?

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