Freewheelers leather jackets

[JMax]

Sweet! The collection is growing with the HB/FL/FW. Congrats again!




Nice one! It will be the first of many hopefully. Congratulations! Hope to see your jacket soon.




Maybe just wait for Tony to buy one and get dibs on it lol

We are close in measurements but he is taller. Alas, I’m either too barrel chested or vertically challenged for FW. I can push some serious weight though lol. Sort of a silver lining.

 

[Serghei Velescu]

I think the fit couldnt be better... was so worried with choosing a jacket i never tried before

thoughts on the fit?

 

[Monitor]

I think the fit couldnt be better... was so worried with choosing a jacket i never tried before

thoughts on the fit?

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Overall, it's good.

If I am to nitpick, sleeves appear to be considerably too long. There's some serious bunching going on all over and looks like cuffs would cover your knuckles, if unzipped.
Bit wide in the shoulders, too, though that's something I often notice with FW so it must be a pattern thing - Plus it doesn't look off. I like it.
Seems kind of long compared to what I've seen of this jacket but that's not an issue of course, just an observation.

So yeah, it's okay, I'd enjoy wearing it. It doesn't look eleven million monies good but it's nice.

 

[Serghei Velescu]

Overall, it's good.

If I am to nitpick, sleeves appear to be considerably too long. There's some serious bunching going on all over and looks like cuffs would cover your knuckles, if unzipped.
Bit wide in the shoulders, too, though that's something I often notice with FW so it must be a pattern thing - Plus it doesn't look off. I like it.
Seems kind of long compared to what I've seen of this jacket but that's not an issue of course, just an observation.

So yeah, it's okay, I'd enjoy wearing it. It doesn't look eleven million monies good but it's nice.

thanks for honest reply. Appreciated sleeves dont get to touch my knuckles unzipped but with time i think the sleeves whill shorten a bit and will be the right length for me i suppose. On the back indeed looks to large due to V shape patern but luckily i dont see my back when im wearing it haha.
I just need to loose the belly as its a bit tight around that area and work out a bit.. easy things haha

 

[Monitor]

thanks for honest reply. Appreciated sleeves dont get to touch my knuckles unzipped but with time i think the sleeves whill shorten a bit and will be the right length for me i suppose. On the back indeed looks to large due to V shape patern but luckily i dont see my back when im wearing it haha.
I just need to loose the belly as its a bit tight around that area and work out a bit.. easy things haha

I'm trying to be as honest as I can 'cause that's a lot of money in that jacket and just parroting "OMG perfect fit" won't do any of us any good. But most importantly - and I don't even feel I need to point this out at this point - is to be happy the way it looks on you, rather than focus on the right fit, which is something that doesn't even exist anyway & ultimately not give a damn. Centinela fits a specific way, I suppose 'cause seeing it on Momoa, seems to fit exactly the same on him as it does on you. Perhaps a bit shorter but he's tall if I'm not mistaken. But I mean, I would've told him the same thing. XD

https://loveusame.com/2018/12/freewheelers-leather-togs-centinela/

 

[Mich486]

I really like the way it fits Momoa.

 

[Robbie79]

I think the fit couldnt be better... was so worried with choosing a jacket i never tried before

thoughts on the fit?

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Congratulations! I'm glad to read that you're happy and I hope Watanabe-san's service was good! Beautiful jacket and body fit it quite good in my opinion and as others mentioned sleeves are on the long end. Why don't you unzip the sleeves (looks like you didn't unzip them) then the sleeves are going a bit over your knuckles and it might look much better?

 

[Robbie79]

thanks for honest reply. Appreciated sleeves dont get to touch my knuckles unzipped but with time i think the sleeves whill shorten a bit and will be the right length for me i suppose. On the back indeed looks to large due to V shape patern but luckily i dont see my back when im wearing it haha.
I just need to loose the belly as its a bit tight around that area and work out a bit.. easy things haha

@Serghei Velescu Please excuse, I read your post after I posted regarding unzipping sleeves

 

[Serghei Velescu]

@Serghei Velescu Please excuse, I read your post after I posted regarding unzipping sleeves

No worries i expected from beggining that the sleeves will be a bit longer due to being size 42. But i hope with time they will shorten enough to look a bit better

 

[Marc mndt]

I think the fit couldnt be better... was so worried with choosing a jacket i never tried before

thoughts on the fit?

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To me it looks like either the sleeve ends are a bit narrow, or the upper sleeves are a bit wide. Or maybe it's a combination of both. Also, the body length seems a bit long for the style. To me @Robbie79 's jacket looks to be better proportioned. Which is strange, because they're both FW Centinelas. I think it's because FW jackets get substantially longer with sizing up.

 

[Serghei Velescu]

To me it looks like either the sleeve ends are a bit narrow, or the upper sleeves are a bit wide. Or maybe it's a combination of both. Also, the body length seems a bit long for the style. To me @Robbie79 's jacket looks to be better proportioned. Which is strange, because they're both FW Centinelas. I think it's because FW jackets get substantially longer with sizing up.

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Mine is size 42 and of Robbie is size 40 and we have basically same height. Thats why mine looks longer. As i did not find anywhere size 40, i decided to get size 42 from Genco. But personally i like the length so it is not bothering me. Only thing bothering me is the sleeves length which i hope with time they will get shorter

 

[Monitor]

Only thing bothering me is the sleeves length which i hope with time they will get shorter

Well... Sadly, it won't.
Theories on creases that shorten sleeve length do not have any practical basis in reality. The way the jacket fits you now won't change much as you continue to wear it. Not significantly, at least. Creases set in the first few times you put the jacket on and that's as far as it goes.

 

[sweetfights]

Overall great looking jacket and fit. I am biased in favor of longer sleeves, especially on biker jackets. I really prefer the "tunneling effect".
As Monitor said, Freewheelers designs tend toward wide shoulder measures.
One size smaller would not work for you in my opinion.
Enjoy this bad-ass jacket.
I am not certain about shinki but every cxl jacket I ever purchased new shortened within a few months. Strange but true.

 

[Jin431]

I think the fit couldnt be better... was so worried with choosing a jacket i never tried before

thoughts on the fit?

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Lovely jacket. It takes a lot of confidence to wear something like this, that I don't have lol! It is a bit wide on the shoulders but not by much and if you wear a sweater/hoodie it will be a nice fit. The sleeves are slightly long and it should shorten with wear but not by much. I dunked the sleeves of my jacket in hot water, pushed up on the cuffs and wore it to dry to set the creases and it worked to some degree maybe shortened by 2".

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...ou-wearing-today.82949/page-1628#post-2803102

 

[dudewuttheheck]

That's a beautiful jacket, but I have to agree that it looks a bit big. Sleeves will not really shorten either.

 

[Robbie79]

Perhaps you can ask companies like Thedi, Aero, Simmons Bilt or even Shangri-La (btw one member told me that a Shangri-La jacket would probably fit perfectly and they are based in the EU - I'm really happy with my Shangri-La trucker) if they are capable to shorten the sleeves even if it costs you 100-200€ but I think it would be worth it. Since the sleeve design is very specific I hope someone can do this job. If I was you I would not hesitate and contact leather jacket manufacturers in Europe. But that's only my opinion.

 

[Serghei Velescu]

Perhaps you can ask companies like Thedi, Aero, Simmons Bilt or even Shangri-La (btw one member told me that a Shangri-La jacket would probably fit perfectly and they are based in the EU - I'm really happy with my Shangri-La trucker) if they are capable to shorten the sleeves even if it costs you 100-200€ but I think it would be worth it. Since the sleeve design is very specific I hope someone can do this job. If I was you I would not hesitate and contact leather jacket manufacturers in Europe. But that's only my opinion.

Thanks Robbie! Will keep that in mind

 

[Tom71]

Going against a new mainstream I have been observing for some time now: I think look and fit are perfectly fine. Leather jackets are tools. Trying to achieve a fit as one would in a suit is something that is alien to me. Leather isn´t wool/cotton/silk, and so it drapes differently. Also, a jacket needs to be able to be worn both with a Shirt AND a jumper, as it is "outerwear", so a bit of breathing space is fine, indeed desirable.

For sure, neither sleeves nor shoulders are excessively large and certainly nothing anybody on the street would even notice. I think the style suits you well, and a size 40 would be really (too) trim.

Just my personal 2 cents, obviously, but if YOU like it, that should perfectly do the trick.

 

[Monitor]

Leather jackets are tools. Trying to achieve a fit as one would in a suit is something that is alien to me.

Maybe at $200-$300 price range but at $1000+ tag, that simply ain't so.

This jacket is a 100% pure, dedicated luxury, fashion piece and sooner we start treating it as such & stop pretending it's not a high-street piece but some sort of rugged piece of work-wear instead, the better.

Quality aspect between different hides is as blurred as it gets. It's dead animal skin. Nobody made it. Good looking, quality leather can be sourced even at a cheapest tannery, as evidenced by countless vintage jackets out there. So that just isn't where the money goes.

Next we have stitching & make but this too also doesn't mean a thing as any highly experienced machinist will make you a good jacket. Operating a stitching machine itself is not an art, it's a trade.

So what is it exactly that we're paying such insane amounts of money for? Brand name. And, of course, guaranteed, perfect fit. Without it, this Freewheelers might've just as well ended up to be a particularly nice, I don't know, GAP. Y'know, they had a good year, sourced some great leather and of course it's well made, I mean, it's basically impossible for a skilled machinist to mess it up at this point. Also, quality control at big companies is really tight. . .

Nah, man, I'm not buying it. This isn't a tool. It's a suit or at least a part of it, a part of what it represents. So let's at least make it fit right.

All in all, I wouldn't be happy if my $2600 leather jacket fit anything short of perfect 'cause then I would just have to spend even more energy at forcing myself to pretend it's such a great jacket just because the brand tag is supposed to guarantee that it is, even tough I can plainly see that it's not and I am so very tired of doing that. . .

 

[Brandrea33]

Mine is size 42 and of Robbie is size 40 and we have basically same height. Thats why mine looks longer. As i did not find anywhere size 40, i decided to get size 42 from Genco. But personally i like the length so it is not bothering me. Only thing bothering me is the sleeves length which i hope with time they will get shorter

I think it looks great on you. IMHO, fit and feel are in the eye of the beholder. Enjoy your new jacket