Leilah Wilde
New in Town
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I was really surprised when I saw this review as my experiences with you have been completely the opposite. I had really top notch communication with both of my orders. The response times were very quick and even had me questioning Leilahs sanity with some of the times she would respond given the time difference between Colorado and the UK. I’ve been trying to order a pair of willies boots for two weeks now with my last message sitting on read for over 2 days now with no response. I had nothing like this with Rugged West.
I have not received my second jacket in the new hide but as for my first jacket that was in the two tone steerhide there wasn't any bad smell. I have 5 stars and my RW was nothing like that. I was very surprised that this review said that the Leather was thin. My jackets leather is substantial with out being overly stiff. The measurement were all to spec and there was no chipping on my jacket. I did have some of the tape that was covering hardware pull up a little pigment when I removed it too quickly.
My jacket was exactly what I expected. There were no surprises or differences from the model on the website.
I liked my first jacket enough to buy a second that I am eagerly awaiting in the blackened tea core.
I think you are suffering from success. Not a bad problem to have. It seems like you are taking this seriously and are learning from it.
I’ll answer this one here too…All of these are "1.4mm steerhide", but I'm not sure if all of these are the same leather:
- blackened brown teacore
- teacore blackened brown
- Oil Black Teacore
- (simply)Teacore
Seems confusing to me.
The photos also show how big the variation is (assuming it's all the same leather, because Leilah said they have 3 options : cordovan, British tan and X). No idea how much of this is down to lighting, camera setting or leather color variation.
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When I put an order in for the steerhide, I asked the tannery to split the hide evenly between three colours: teacore black, cordovan brown and what I call “British Tan”. When the teacore black was delivered, it was more of a blackened brown (seal brown, if you will). I didn’t dislike it, in fact I really loved it so I chose to create the Stockman and a few Lonely Hunters in this hide. As we only used a small quantity of it, I asked the tannery to darken the rest once more until we arrived at jet black. This is why we now have both blackened brown (all used up now) and jet black (still have some of this left).