Navin323i
Practically Family
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- Maryland, USA
I can't believe this day has finally arrived. I ordered the jacket on March 18 and received the jacket yesterday, June 8... just a few days less than 12 weeks.
This is my first horsehide leather jacket... I love the scent of the jacket and I especially love the rigidity of the jacket. I didn't know what to expect in regards to how stiff the jacket would be but it does not bother me at all... I wish all my leather jackets were this stiff. I feel like I get a good workout wearing the jacket... I look forward to SLOWLY breaking this jacket in.
I want to personally thank Mark Moye, Amanda, Will and Moira (who made my jacket)... this is definitely the best fitting leather jacket I've ever worn!
Details of the jacket:
1) Black Front Quarter Horsehide
2) Delete woolen storm cuffs
3) Delete side vents and snaps -- make with Highwayman style buckles/straps instead
4) Lining: Black Cotton Drill Cloth
5) Hardware: Bright Brass
6) Labels: Standard white "police", "horsehide" and size in neck area as standard
7) Add inside left body horizontal top loading snap pocket (with leather reinforcement border) into the lining.
8) Above this pocket sew our standard color 'plane, car, cycle' label.
9) Stitch personalized leather tag at the standard location at bottom of jacket and include numerical day in addition to month and year.
My new Aero police jacket is dedicated in loving memory to my grandfather, a police chief, good cop, and hardworking/loving father of 6 kids (my mom being the youngest). Sadly he died 3 years before I was born. I'm proud to say I look so much like him. I can never follow in his footsteps to be a cop because of my heart condition, but I can and will follow in his footsteps to be a good father and husband as he was.
This is the only thing I have from his police uniform... a badge that would have been located on his shoulder boards.
Onto the pictures of my jacket (you can see the Highwayman style buckles and straps in some of the pics)...
Note: I had Aero include the exact day my jacket was made. Normally they put the month and year only. Aero sent me a second personalized label... not sure if this is normal or not but I don't mind, especially in case the current label falls off or gets damaged somehow.
Also I liked the Aero label with the red car so much I had them include this along with the standard police label they normally use for the NYPD jacket.
Closeup of the brass police button. Prior to receiving my jacket I had no idea what design was on the button.
I love this picture! Good old rigid horsehide makes my jacket proudly stand up.
This is my first horsehide leather jacket... I love the scent of the jacket and I especially love the rigidity of the jacket. I didn't know what to expect in regards to how stiff the jacket would be but it does not bother me at all... I wish all my leather jackets were this stiff. I feel like I get a good workout wearing the jacket... I look forward to SLOWLY breaking this jacket in.
I want to personally thank Mark Moye, Amanda, Will and Moira (who made my jacket)... this is definitely the best fitting leather jacket I've ever worn!
Details of the jacket:
1) Black Front Quarter Horsehide
2) Delete woolen storm cuffs
3) Delete side vents and snaps -- make with Highwayman style buckles/straps instead
4) Lining: Black Cotton Drill Cloth
5) Hardware: Bright Brass
6) Labels: Standard white "police", "horsehide" and size in neck area as standard
7) Add inside left body horizontal top loading snap pocket (with leather reinforcement border) into the lining.
8) Above this pocket sew our standard color 'plane, car, cycle' label.
9) Stitch personalized leather tag at the standard location at bottom of jacket and include numerical day in addition to month and year.
My new Aero police jacket is dedicated in loving memory to my grandfather, a police chief, good cop, and hardworking/loving father of 6 kids (my mom being the youngest). Sadly he died 3 years before I was born. I'm proud to say I look so much like him. I can never follow in his footsteps to be a cop because of my heart condition, but I can and will follow in his footsteps to be a good father and husband as he was.
This is the only thing I have from his police uniform... a badge that would have been located on his shoulder boards.
Onto the pictures of my jacket (you can see the Highwayman style buckles and straps in some of the pics)...
Note: I had Aero include the exact day my jacket was made. Normally they put the month and year only. Aero sent me a second personalized label... not sure if this is normal or not but I don't mind, especially in case the current label falls off or gets damaged somehow.
Also I liked the Aero label with the red car so much I had them include this along with the standard police label they normally use for the NYPD jacket.
Closeup of the brass police button. Prior to receiving my jacket I had no idea what design was on the button.
I love this picture! Good old rigid horsehide makes my jacket proudly stand up.
