Haha I saw the Aero post about being one of the suppliers after Eastman's misleading "the official supplier".
Eastman does great stuff and has outfitted great films; they don't need to mislead!
I have half a mind to send a picture of the Aero jackets in the show, send them to Eastman, and ask...
These kinds of jackets are a reversed sheepskin with the fur inside and the soft inner layer on the outside. In order to extend the life of the garment for more than a year or so, that inner portion (which is on the outside) gets painted and lacquered.
I may be wrong but I don't think it's something done by the jacket maker. After sheepskin is tanned, the flesh side (non fur side) can be painted and lacquered to be stronger and a bit more weather resistant. This is why sheepskin pilot jackets usually have a shiny red or brown color. It's paint.
I was calling the Schott in that pic seal brown.
The reason the sheepskin you're seeing is rough is because the way these wartime style sheepskins were prepared was actively *painting* the non-fleece side. That is where the darker color comes from and why it fades.
The best affordable alternative is probably the fleece-lined tanker and deck jacket models from At The Front, which targets the re-enactment community.
I'm sorry but $1500 CAD is a lot of money!
Instead of this gambling game, why not just get an Aero B-6 to suit your height, for considerably less money. The Schott B-3 (which is a great civi sheepskin) is basically a B-6 anyway.
Ironically those under-sized suits really age Skyfall poorly because it's rather unusual for the suits of a Bond film to be so trend-chasing rather than classically tailored. But then I guess that's the deal with the devil they made with the Tom Ford sponsorship. (The suits in Quantum actually...
Who is making this? Does he have experience making sheepskin coats? What does he normally make?
The single post important thing in a garment is the patterning; if the pattern is not good, the jacket will be terrible no matter how much money you pour into it.
Before those are answered, we're...
It goes with anything. You won't look like a fashion tryhard.
On occasion about 15 years ago I would sometimes wear tan Oxfords with a navy suit; at the time it was a sort of rakish move. Now it seems like the standard footwear for dark suits is tan and that combination is horrific default.
That makes sense to me, since unlike wool leather moulds, whereas for a suit regardless of your general measurement they need to construct the shape through cutting, canvas, and iron.
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