VansonRider
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Couple of thoughts…
First is that the arrow in your picture, pointing to the “problem” collar, is the one spreading like most people are trying to make there collar. The collar in your picture without the arrow, is doing more of a shirt collar thing. If you like the shirt collar bend, hang it zipped and folded down.
More common is to spread the collar, so hang it snapped open.
But eventually the whole jacket will go floppy and crinkly, fully soft and broken in, like this one…
With that in mind an often overlooked method of jacket storage is…
The old Vanson site used to suggest throwing your jacket on the floor of your closet to encourage break in! Then they started selling “wide shouldered shaper preserving ventilator hangers for 40 dollars each.
What I’m getting at, is leather continues to change as you wear it, and this training of the collar is very practical because it makes the jacket comfortable enough to wear it into that broken in state.
But for me it’s just a stage in the process.
Wear it a bunch, and wear it some more.
These guys below weren’t using binder clips on their collars, and I think they’ve got “The Look” down pretty solid! (Photos from 1968 journalism book by photographer Danny Lyon, The Bikeriders)
First is that the arrow in your picture, pointing to the “problem” collar, is the one spreading like most people are trying to make there collar. The collar in your picture without the arrow, is doing more of a shirt collar thing. If you like the shirt collar bend, hang it zipped and folded down.
More common is to spread the collar, so hang it snapped open.
But eventually the whole jacket will go floppy and crinkly, fully soft and broken in, like this one…
With that in mind an often overlooked method of jacket storage is…
The old Vanson site used to suggest throwing your jacket on the floor of your closet to encourage break in! Then they started selling “wide shouldered shaper preserving ventilator hangers for 40 dollars each.
What I’m getting at, is leather continues to change as you wear it, and this training of the collar is very practical because it makes the jacket comfortable enough to wear it into that broken in state.
But for me it’s just a stage in the process.
Wear it a bunch, and wear it some more.
These guys below weren’t using binder clips on their collars, and I think they’ve got “The Look” down pretty solid! (Photos from 1968 journalism book by photographer Danny Lyon, The Bikeriders)