Alright, so something amazing happened. In one of my previous posts in this thread I remarked that I liked the "normal" higher button stance of the Rockafella better than the one on mine and that I had opted for the new goatskin if I had known it would become available soon afterwards. After reading this Kenny Calder contacted me and offered to remake the jacked in the final pattern (he said he had not realized that mine was made on a trial pattern instead of the final one) and in the new goat. Well, I wouldn't have asked for it, as the original jacket was pretty amazing but since I really felt the HH was too heavy and stiff for the jacket I accepted. It took me a while to decide which leather to take, but in the end I opted for the mid-brown goat. During this time I took up sports again and felt that I should size up as the original jacket was barely big enough in the chest from the start. In order to still have a nice fit at the waist I asked Kenny if the jacket could be tapered down to the next smaller size in the waist. He agreed!
So today the jacket arrived. I have no fit pics, but I can assure you it fits better and is more comfortable than the first one and the goat leather is much more pliable than the mid-weight HH. I am very pleased with the result. The color is a tiny bit darker than the old russet goat. Under a flashlight it looks much redder than it actually is. As it is a dark and rainy day neither the pics with nor without flash really give a realistic color impression. It is somewhere in between.
The new one in mid-brown goat
The old one in seal HH