Get to the pics!! I’m surprised to hear your thoughts on the leather. My Aeros felt like lunch meat in comparison and it’s thicker than any of the LW’s or Cals/Vanson I’ve had. Even the last JL I sold was thinner and that was almost the thickest hide I’d handled to that point!My "bootlegger" arrived!
I'll post some pics later as I'm still working. But some fast impressions:
1.) Tony's wild exhortations about the leather thickness had me really worried: would this thing be a suit of armour? I was relieved to get the jacket and realize it's just a heavy and above average thickness leather jacket. I actually already have a couple just as thick, I just didn't realize it was considered thick until now. Maybe Canadian jackets are sold thicker than others?...the Brooks Brothers CR I got off eBay feels comically thin by comparison, not jacketlike at all.
2.) It is stiff but my heavyweight Brave Star jacket is much worse. Just wearing this jacket a bit, it's already softening it up, I wish my denim jacket would.
3.) Colour and quality of leather feels really good. Smells nice.
4.) This is my first custom buy. I'm unsure about the fit, I hope you guys can give me some ideas for alterations. I know someone who can do it for cheap.
My "bootlegger" arrived!
I'll post some pics later as I'm still working. But some fast impressions:
1.) Tony's wild exhortations about the leather thickness had me really worried: would this thing be a suit of armour? I was relieved to get the jacket and realize it's just a heavy and above average thickness leather jacket. I actually already have a couple just as thick, I just didn't realize it was considered thick until now. Maybe Canadian jackets are sold thicker than others?...the Brooks Brothers CR I got off eBay feels comically thin by comparison, not jacketlike at all.
2.) It is stiff but my heavyweight Brave Star jacket is much worse. Just wearing this jacket a bit, it's already softening it up, I wish my denim jacket would.
3.) Colour and quality of leather feels really good. Smells nice.
4.) This is my first custom buy. I'm unsure about the fit, I hope you guys can give me some ideas for alterations. I know someone who can do it for cheap.
Yours definitely looks a bit nicer and I’d say even a bit thinner. Mine is full of scars, pores cuts, etc. it’s also gone much lighter brown in very short order. I wonder if my jacket was cut from the prototype batch…I’ll be curious to see if yours ages with the same speed. It’s kind of a hazy brown now and the top coat looks like the fuzz on top of a glass of root beer.Well, it's definitely thick, but it isn't oppressive to me. It felt roughly comparable to the two Aero CRs I had last summer. The stiffness is more of an obstacle and it's already looser just typing on my computer.
Here's a couple of pics on my lawn (lol, I know). Fit pics later on.
Fit looks good. Maybe a touch loose but that’s not a bad thing with this hide. I’d let it fully break in first. It will soften up really quickly.I got my 8 year old to snap a few.
Definitely not a warm weather jacket.
Alterations: she's good. I am wondering about a smaller p2p. Also the back panel seems too wide?
Fit looks good. Maybe a touch loose but that’s not a bad thing with this hide. I’d let it fully break in first. It will soften up really quickly.
I'd say let in break-in further before any alterations are attempted.What about the back?
I got my 8 year old to snap a few.
Definitely not a warm weather jacket.
Alterations: she's good. I am wondering about a smaller p2p. Also the back panel seems too wide?
Yours definitely looks a bit nicer and I’d say even a bit thinner. Mine is full of scars, pores cuts, etc. it’s also gone much lighter brown in very short order. I wonder if my jacket was cut from the prototype batch…I’ll be curious to see if yours ages with the same speed. It’s kind of a hazy brown now and the top coat looks like the fuzz on top of a glass of root beer.
That leather is gorgeous, and it does seem less unwieldy than Ton's. Seriously gorgeous, looks as good as anything coming out of Chicago, and the color is spot on.
Yeah, fit is a very finicky thing to get right. Consider that when getting a normal suit made, with wool fabric being much easier to work with than leather, let alone the types of leather we fawn over here, even a Savile Row tailor will need at least a couple fittings to get the fit right. There's a ton of engineering and experience that goes into a leather jacket, making alterations sorta creates a whack a mole situation where you minus this, then this needs to be fixed, so on and so forth. Good tailors/alterators listen to what you're after, take the measurement, but oftentimes they're making other small adjustments to get what you're after.
And for me, given my body type, I have no illusions of grandeur that anything will fit as good on me as it does on Ton, lol.
Thanks man! I'm very happy with it. What other company can do better at this price?