It is finally time to look at this one 
That jacket has been long in coming for me. I remember years ago, a friend showed it to me and I thought "it looks odd" as in I would never buy such a thing.
Then having spent time here, I got used to the jacket, saw the freewheelers version, the Centinela, in Desolation Row and fell in love (yet again). Only problem was that it was available in smaller sizes if available at all, until I found a size 44 at Genko and... failed to zip it up. It is very tapered and I wasn't lol
Gave up on it for a while, until trying to get LW to make it. Stuart was receptive to the idea, and after putting in some research this jacket saw the light of the day. Naming it was also a big challenge as the originals don't have any names. At least Buco had numbers in the catalogs, Leathertogs... nothing. After quite a lot of thought was put into it, Stuart decided to call it the "B" which I think is the most elegant solution taking everything into consideration.
While this jacket is not the first to become a standard offering after I ordered it - that is the courrier peacoat - this is the first full custom to become so. The courrier peacoat was made off an older pattern LW had made in fabric. So in a sense this jacket is potentially the start of even more things to come
Enough rambling, let's take a look at this jacket!
And here it is!
This is the snap with the cover
For those who like variation in grain
This jacket needs to be either zipped up or half zipped
I was worried that by going to heavy this would not fold well, but it actually works well
Lighting went down during that shot... sorry
That jacket has been long in coming for me. I remember years ago, a friend showed it to me and I thought "it looks odd" as in I would never buy such a thing.
Then having spent time here, I got used to the jacket, saw the freewheelers version, the Centinela, in Desolation Row and fell in love (yet again
). Only problem was that it was available in smaller sizes if available at all, until I found a size 44 at Genko and... failed to zip it up. It is very tapered and I wasn't lolGave up on it for a while, until trying to get LW to make it. Stuart was receptive to the idea, and after putting in some research this jacket saw the light of the day. Naming it was also a big challenge as the originals don't have any names. At least Buco had numbers in the catalogs, Leathertogs... nothing. After quite a lot of thought was put into it, Stuart decided to call it the "B" which I think is the most elegant solution taking everything into consideration.
While this jacket is not the first to become a standard offering after I ordered it - that is the courrier peacoat - this is the first full custom to become so. The courrier peacoat was made off an older pattern LW had made in fabric. So in a sense this jacket is potentially the start of even more things to come
Enough rambling, let's take a look at this jacket!
And here it is!
This is the snap with the cover
For those who like variation in grain
This jacket needs to be either zipped up or half zipped
I was worried that by going to heavy this would not fold well, but it actually works well
Lighting went down during that shot... sorry
