What are these fake repairs you speak of?
They're in the same spots on every rough n ready jacket. I think there was one or two on the shoulder(s), one at a pocket welt, done with olive thread and intentionally crude, made to look as if hand-stitched. Levis and RL made similar repairs on other models; some of them actually looked pretty good. On the Aero jacket, not so much I think.
I recall seeing some RL garment with a machine stitched repair mimicking the zigzag repair often seen on continental, espcially French, 20s-40s workwear.