Field Leathers

[Monitor]

How long does it take to make one detailed jacket anyway? I can remember some saying that a machinist makes one jacket a day if everything goes right but I think they had the lining and cutting done by someone else .
So can we calculate how many orders he has taken on to create these lead times ?
When a bigger shop makes you wait 12months with 10 ? machinists but a small shop ?

Yeah, that's what I don't understand either. There are so many videos on Youtube of people making an entire leather jacket in one afternoon. I follow two guys on Insta that post videos where they make a leather jacket entirely by hand in two days!
There are setbacks, of course; You run out of this or that but none of this explains the 2 plus years lead time, especially since none of these makers actually drown in orders. What happens that you suddenly need years to catch up with an order?

ToJ happened because they could no longer pump out, what, 100 jackets a day? But until they could, they did.

 

[Marc mndt]

If I remember correctly Greg once told me he can sew one jacket a day. What costs time though is communicating with customers (some customers literally send hundreds of emails), pattern making and design tweaks. That's why the collabs are so lucrative: standard sizing of one and the same design with the cutting done in bulk.