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  1. Carlos840

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    That looks like the same kind of goatskin used on the riders jacket you bought for me. It has a really nice weight and feel, vintage swedish goatskin is awesome!
  2. Carlos840

    New! ELMC Jacket Highway Star®️ Horsehide

    IMO that wide overhang looks bad, i would not wear that:
  3. Carlos840

    New! ELMC Jacket Highway Star®️ Horsehide

    It basically fits you like it fits me, the hourglass shape doesn't work cause you are too tall i feel. IMO the jacket is too short and the larger part of the bottom hem ends up being high towards your waist rather than lower towards your hips. They both look too wide at the bottom hem, whilst...
  4. Carlos840

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

    Is that because back then colour photography was still too expensive? A quick google tells me colour photography became readily available in the 60s but that the prices remained high untill the 70s. I assume that in the late 40s it was probably cheaper/easier to take a B&W pic and have it...
  5. Carlos840

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    agreed, i spec between 25.5 and 26.5 and i am 6'2"! 25" shoudl be about perfect for you.
  7. Carlos840

    Fedora special! Horween X Vanson

    I have made my peace with the hoarding lifestyle... Saying that, i might sell the X150 version i already have once i get the CXL one.
  8. Carlos840

    Fedora special! Horween X Vanson

    Well, i just won one of these CXL Gold Standard Commandos. @Bfd70 was right about no one on eBay caring about the difference in leather, it looks close to unworn and went for $750 with no other bid, coming from $1600 new i am pretty pleased. The jacket has to reach @JMax first (thank you!) and...
  9. Carlos840

    Finds and Deals - Leather Jacket Edition

    $800 down from $1150 new, with a crappy side panel alteration seems pretty optimistic...
  10. Carlos840

    Help identify this bad ass winter jacket

    No idea what the fur is, but is is super cool!
  11. Carlos840

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    Shouldn't there be a warranty? Anything bought in the EU should be covered by a two year warranty. I don't think that still applies if something is sold to the US, but you could try, i would like to know if Aero stands behind their products even if they don't legaly have to. It would also be...
  13. Carlos840

    Himel "The Imperial"

    Weird, my pigment Shinki Chevalier molded to me within hours, it took barely any wear at all for it to fully mold to my body: Personally i think the back is the best bit of the Imperial, the front is pretty plain, so is the collar and the sleeves. The back is literally the most interresting...
  14. Carlos840

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    How old is that jacket?
  15. Carlos840

    New Schott Perfecto 618 Horsehide peeling... :(

    I remember seeing this jacket on the IH forum, it was machine washed on high heat and then tumble dried on high heat too, which is a really really dumb thing to do IMO. I don't think this is a fair comparison, you can't put user stupidity and manufacturing defects on the same level.
  16. Carlos840

    White residue on the inside of collar of leather jacket

    I get the same thing, which is why i wipe the collar of worn jackets weekly during the warm months. I also do a wipe down of all the collars once a year on top of that. All i use is a wet microfiber, if it is a jacket i have worn lots or if the collar looks dry i also give it a wipe with the rag...
  17. Carlos840

    CXL thickness

    I don't know, i have seen these machines in use, but i don't know how they are setup or what the system to use them is. What i do know is that they have 2 different machines, 1 is a splitter that can split a hide in two and leave you with a full grain part and a suede part, there is then a...
  19. Carlos840

    New Schott Perfecto 618 Horsehide peeling... :(

    It's actually 1000Eur/$1125 from Schott in the EU...
  20. Carlos840

    New Schott Perfecto 618 Horsehide peeling... :(

    What you are seeing is a scratch created by the walking foot during stitching... There is a difference between a scratch, slow abrassion at wear points and "chunks of topcoat coming off at random places".
  21. Carlos840

    New Schott Perfecto 618 Horsehide peeling... :(

    And my Legendary USA Trojan, also HH, also made by Schott, similar wear marks:
  22. Carlos840

    New Schott Perfecto 618 Horsehide peeling... :(

    And here is another one: What is your point? are we starting to name scratches differently depending if they go through the top coat or not?
  23. Carlos840

    New Schott Perfecto 618 Horsehide peeling... :(

    To me what i see in the pictures posted in the original post are small superficial scratches, i don't see chunks of top coat peeling off. This is top coat peeling off:

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