Leather Cult

[navetsea]

from what I see, they do look like most south/ south east asian leather online shops

50 color options etc, most likely they don't have all that colors readystock, so they would just use whatever color close to what you want or cook a new batch of hide hoping it would be more or less the color you want.

when you see or want certain feature on a jacket like biswing, or button on the lapel etc, tell them you want them working not only for decoration, otherwise you'll get a fake biswing and a button on the collar without a matching one on the body to snap to a chest pocket zipper that leads to nowhere...things like that.

common practice here too that they use pictures of jackets found online that they feel "confident" to replicate (without even developing a pattern yet) and waiting for a customer to order it and then they will swap the picture with their own

 

[Sloan1874]

It'll be a cold day in hell before you get me into lambskin leather. Let's ut to the chase, though: this bunch are the very opposite of what the Lounge is about.

 

[nick123]

They aren't that clueless:
http://www.leathercult.com/celebrity-jackets/jim-morrison-leather-jacket

Wouldn't get it in that leather though.

 

[navetsea]

jim's sleeves are longer than the jacket's hem, their replica has longer body than sleeve more or less, loose interpretation is what you get here.

 

[K-Pants]

Leather Cult reviews are enough to stop any FL member from taking this seriously. I'm sure the apparel is not terrible-- if you are looking to source costumes for a low budget film.

 

[TXFlyGuy]

jim's sleeves are longer than the jacket's hem, their replica has longer body than sleeve more or less, loose interpretation is what you get here.

The sleeves are made to your personal specs. You want long/short sleeves, give them the measurements.

Leather Cult reviews are enough to stop any FL member from taking this seriously. I'm sure the apparel is not terrible-- if you are looking to source costumes for a low budget film.

Or, for someone who only wants to spend a couple hundred on a true beater jacket. Nothing wrong with that.

Of course, we all know it is simply below the dignity of most loungers to be caught wearing something like this.
There...I said it.

 

[K-Pants]

The sleeves are made to your personal specs. You want long/short sleeves, give them the measurements.



Or, for someone who only wants to spend a couple hundred on a true beater jacket. Nothing wrong with that.

Of course, we all know it is simply below the dignity of most loungers to be caught wearing something like this.
There...I said it.

Point taken. I just saw some reviews that seemed very sketchy. I know bespoke apparel can be a gamble, but this one may be a longer shot than most. That's all I am saying.

 

[pak]

It'll be a cold day in hell before you get me into lambskin leather. Let's ut to the chase, though: this bunch are the very opposite of what the Lounge is about.

Confucius say: Better to be thrifty on leather jacket and lavish on av gas

 

[ProteinNerd]

I've already spent too much money on too many really nice quality jackets AND the available time of jacket wearing weather per year is small enough as it is here.....I can't afford to spend the limited time I have per year to add a cheaper jacket into the already full rotation.

 

[K-Pants]

I was (and actually still am) keeping an eye out for a leather blazer and I took a quick look at leather cult before deciding it wasn't for me. From what I read, if you have an issue with the product, the company invites you to ship it back to India. YOU pay the shipping fee

 

[Seb Lucas]

The sleeves are made to your personal specs. You want long/short sleeves, give them the measurements.



Or, for someone who only wants to spend a couple hundred on a true beater jacket. Nothing wrong with that.

Of course, we all know it is simply below the dignity of most loungers to be caught wearing something like this.
There...I said it.

There you go again with the criticism. You didn't need to say "there, I said it" it was abundantly obvious from many previous comments here and on other threads what you think. You appear to have a chip on your shoulder about what you see as jacket snobbery and therefore need to venerate dubious, sometimes ill-fitting jackets with exhortations about how good they are and how no one needs a ‘stitch for stitch reproduction’, etc, etc.

In itself your steadfast determination to make this point again and again is pretty amusing and enjoyable but I think we need a bit more from you. Some growth maybe...Add some new shtick to your repertoire.

You’ve spent more on a whole bunch of entry level jackets than some would spend on a couple of Aeros or Johnson Leathers jackets. So arguing from affordability isn't really valid.

There are plenty of affordable jackets in thrift shops and on auction sites with much more class than $200 tawdry lambskin knock offs from the sub-continent.

And remember the point of this site. Golden era – a celebration of materials, designs and quality that most of us would consider superior to that available in the mass market today.

In advocating on-line tosh like our Culty friends, you are like a guy posting on a dedicated vintage Ford website droning on about the superiority of the latest Toyota. Not really the point, is it?

Other than that, I (and I am sure some others) enjoy your veneration of cheaper gear. But it often isn’t convincing and you are having a shot at the rest of us for caring about design and quality.

For the record I have no Aero’s or high end jackets these days. I won’t pay that kind of money. But that’s not the same thing as thinking a Cockpit USA jacket is as good as, or even nearly as good as a Goodwear.

For the record I will be seen dead (and alive) in a $45 Dickies utility jacket. I’m no snob. But like most of the people who gather here I appreciate good things.

 

[TXFlyGuy]

The thrust of the original post was to alert those who are frugal, or on a tight budget, that there are options for a custom made jacket in the $200 range. Never said anything about the company being world class, or even 3rd world class.
But it is totally unfair for members here to badmouth a company when they have no first hand experience with them.

There is a certain air of elitism on display, by a few. Not everyone, thank goodness.

You are free to think what you like, about me, about my posts here. But, at my age, I will call it as I see it. No one has to agree, or even like it. That is the choice, and everyone is free to make up their own mind.

Ask yourselves this...how would you like to be criticized, and downgraded by a group of people who had never met you. By a group of people who have only seen a photo of you, without ever meeting you face to face, or even taking the time to talk to you?

You know the answer.

Time for me to take a vacation from here. This will please a number of you, no doubt!

Cheers!

 

[K-Pants]

Its all in the detail

Good Lord!!! No thank you.

 

[l0fielectronic]

The thrust of the original post was to alert those who are frugal, or on a tight budget, that there are options for a custom made jacket in the $200 range. Never said anything about the company being world class, or even 3rd world class.
But it is totally unfair for members here to badmouth a company when they have no first hand experience with them.

There is a certain air of elitism on display, by a few. Not everyone, thank goodness.

You are free to think what you like, about me, about my posts here. But, at my age, I will call it as I see it. No one has to agree, or even like it. That is the choice, and everyone is free to make up their own mind.

Ask yourselves this...how would you like to be criticized, and downgraded by a group of people who had never met you. By a group of people who have only seen a photo of you, without ever meeting you face to face, or even taking the time to talk to you?

Well I think, in part, the people opperating this business are fraudulenty offering items for sale using images that are both stolen and not representative of the products being sold. I realise this is increasingly common in this kind of endevour, and that there are dozens of similar companies on websites like ebay doing the same, but it doesn't make it a good way to do business, or a fully legal one, and its likely part of the reason that people are not looking on them very kindly.

 

[ButteMT61]

Frugal/tight budgets look no further than used good to great jackets.
Also, vintage shops.
I just (like seb and others) don't get the constant attempt to pimp this crap here. It is indeed not what this joint is about, IMHO.
But hey, if you like/buy it, I hope you enjoy it.

 

[Monitor]

http://www.filmjackets.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3103&p=48542&hilit=leathercult#p48542

 

[K-Pants]

'Nuff said.

 

[Edward]

Images pinched from elsewhere? Mn. Infringing other people's copyright is never a good place to start in this business. It woild certainly put me off dealing with them (irrespective of the quality of the goods themselves).

I wonder, then, are they tied up with the near-counterfeit Aeros suddenly all over eBay?

 

[navetsea]

the price is plausible though, if you live nearby these workshops and pick the leather they have available yourself, and face to face conversation with the man/ woman who'll cut the pattern (not to the owner of the company), and frequent multiple visits during its making to prevent misunderstanding, and numerous fitting, eventually you get a custom made jacket you actually want, economy in this part of asia is different so $200 for leather jacket is still a decent spending, you actually can go far with that budget

however what I see in that site, those sheep jackets, here in my country indonesia, they cost half that probably between $70-$100,
3 yrs ago I ordered a MtM modded sheep jacket online from west java in what I imagined would be a nice tan color (picked carefully from 50+ color swatches, including camo and metalic too) , what I got was orange jacket, wrong collar which I moded it myself with glue, a working gusset, a decoration only waist adjuster, but with my name embroidered on the inner pocket leather trim, I even asked for a fully padded lining and they didn't ask for extra cost)

 

[Sloan1874]

http://www.filmjackets.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3103&p=48542&hilit=leathercult#p48542

Confirms exactly what I thought - companies that pile up page after page of patterns are immediately suspect, especially when the images used are inconsistent. Also, the idea that a lambskin jacket would be a beater is a non-starter as the damn thing would tear at the first serious hammering. As Seb and Butte both pointed out, there's no need to hand your cash to these people in the vain hope that you'll get something serviceable. A bit of judicious saving and some patient ebaying will get you something 10 times better than the terrible cheap knock-offs that they're trying to tempt people in with. These are not 'gateway jackets', these are ways of extracting money from people under false pretences.