Five Star Leather Jackets

[Aloysius]

I just took a look at other Bronco contracts they have on their websites and found these:
1st one - it seems that the shoulders on this jacket aren't square, but regular A2 shoulders
2nd - this one also has regular A2 shoulders
3rd - also has regular A2 shoulders
Are these ones a good choice for a Bronco contract? I think that they aren't house A2s, but I was wondering if they are worth watching. If not, I will contact the owner for a quote of a custom jacket. Also, I have a question about the VAT, taxes and possible shipping fees for shipping from 5* to Croatia, in the EU. Do they have a warehouse in Europe from which they could ship the jacket so there is no additional VAT and tax charges?

Don't get the Bronco; I think that model predates them having original A-2s to study.

Their Rough Wear, Dubow, and a few others are patterned on originals.

 

[Canuck Panda]

I just took a look at other Bronco contracts they have on their websites and found these:
1st one - it seems that the shoulders on this jacket aren't square, but regular A2 shoulders
2nd - this one also has regular A2 shoulders
3rd - also has regular A2 shoulders
Are these ones a good choice for a Bronco contract? I think that they aren't house A2s, but I was wondering if they are worth watching. If not, I will contact the owner for a quote of a custom jacket. Also, I have a question about the VAT, taxes and possible shipping fees for shipping from 5* to Croatia, in the EU. Do they have a warehouse in Europe from which they could ship the jacket so there is no additional VAT and tax charges?

5* has $150 Broncos and $350 Broncos. I assume the $150 jackets are from earlier timeline and $350 jackets from the later timeline. The older entries aren't doing them any favors but I am not here to tell 5* how to run their business. It makes more business sense to discard the previous patterns in favor of the updated ones and just offer different levels of leathers to hit certain price points.
If you have a budget in mind it does not hurt to tell them up front, respectfully of course. I see no cost difference of cutting a jacket out of the $350 pattern vs the $150 pattern, the difference is in the material, and to hit certain budgets you may have to sacrifice on certain material. That' for 5* to figure out for you. $150 order is not as good as $350 order but still better than $0 order.
As for VAT and shipping. If you want 5* to ship to you FOB Germany then the cost will be much higher than if you import it yourself. There is no way around that. The way EU calculates taxes is to include the shipping cost to the base figure before the taxes. The most 5* can do is to declare lesser FOB Pakistan value so the base for calculation is a less.

 

[Camel24hrs]

I just took a look at other Bronco contracts they have on their websites and found these:
1st one - it seems that the shoulders on this jacket aren't square, but regular A2 shoulders
2nd - this one also has regular A2 shoulders
3rd - also has regular A2 shoulders
Are these ones a good choice for a Bronco contract? I think that they aren't house A2s, but I was wondering if they are worth watching. If not, I will contact the owner for a quote of a custom jacket. Also, I have a question about the VAT, taxes and possible shipping fees for shipping from 5* to Croatia, in the EU. Do they have a warehouse in Europe from which they could ship the jacket so there is no additional VAT and tax charges?

The Bronco is one of five stars first A2 jackets. And they did not have an actual jacket to pattern off of. They just made up what they got.
The first one you posted I actually bought that jacket. While I love some of their other jackets this one is trash. First they put the back seam to far forward on the shoulder and that throws off where the epaulettes sit. Instead of sitting on top of the shoulder they sit forward on the shoulders and look comical. While they may have better goat skin in some of their other jackets the goat used in this one sucks. It is stiff and starts to flake off the top coat in months.
I realize people look at jackets with a price in mind, but just understand the price determines the quality you will get. My suggestion is stay away from Bronco and anything else from five star that are cheap. Promise you will regret it and will have just wasted your money. Save up your money then buy a better quality jacket you will be happy with.
Their HH Rough Wear, Dubow, Star, Monarch and a couple of others are quality reproductions that are great jackets. Just make sure you get them customized to your length. An A2 jacket is a short waisted jacket to begin with. And some of five star jacket lengths run really short.