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RMNZ Dubow in redrusset arrives! + pics!

WHOOOOAAAA.....!!!!

:D ....my Dubow Arrived...!:D

It is incredible !
I opened the box and in it was the jacket, neatly folded and packed in plastic. The distictive scent of HH leather filled the room and the color is ....uh...well ....indescribable....but I'll try anyway.

First some admin though:
- Paddy had this jacket on sale (20% off) as it was the last one (no hide left)
- Price was 1300-20%=1060 NZD INCLUDING shipping. Approx 600 USD/500 E.
- It is a Dubow for the Japanese market (high quality fine grain very smooth)
- The color is a tint darker red russet than on their website.
- Paddy offered that I could either keep it and get 20% off or when I did not like it, try it for size and send it back, although this would forfit the discount.

The thing is: the sleeves and jacket length were 1.5 inches too long for my liking BUT...I JUST LOVE THE COLOR!
I have a very good tailor here that assured me he could shorten both sleeves and jacket. He would take off the pockets and sew them back on a bit higher, using the original stitch holes. He'd also change the blackened conmar zip with a WW2 correct TALON zip. (from Steve aka Senicko). He'd do it all for just $100.

....A giant gamble, but Hey...gotta keep the blood pumpin'!

Anyway, as I am hooked on this color + Paddy told me this color hide (pre WW2 reddish russet brown) was finished and I'd only be able to get a custom jacket in their current regular russet color (milk chocolate brown), I let the tailor "do his thing"....huuu....SCARY!

Well the results are AMAZING!! The tailor is a PRO and did not lie! The only visible thing that gives this surgerey away are a few stitch holes beneath the pockets where they used to be stitched, but they are hardly noticable.

IT IS A PERFECT FIT! EXACTLY THE WAY I WANT IT! (the leather ends right at the hipbone)

As my camera died a few weeks ago, I had a buddy of mine take some pics.
They just don't do the color justice.
I'll get some better + close up pics when I buy a new camera.

For now ...Look at:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dex31amsterdam/detail?.dir=15e6scd&.dnm=8dd8re2.jpg&.src=ph

and......enjoy!

WHOW what a jacket!
The leather is thick, but light weight and supple, however it sits on me like a house. It needs some serious breaking in. I have been wearing it daily and sleeping in it nightly for the past days now, but I need a lot of harder wear I gusess.
Although it slightly molds to my body, it still stands up by itself.

How long does it take to break it in?
It has not been raining yet, but that ll change when fall sets in.

I;ll get some better picas and will post on some more details later.

For now: THANX to all guys on the forum that helped me get my dream on my back!

Dex
 

Havana

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Fastastic jacket! I absolutely love the color. You may be on a long road as far as the break in goes. Sleeping in it is probably the best thing. If you're into working out, zip it up and do some exercises where you move your upper body a lot. It looks weird but it's worked for me with a stiff cowhide motorcycle jacket. You can also massage the leather to get it to soften up a bit. It will take a lot of work to get it where you want it but who here wouldn't want to be in your place?
 

Feraud

Bartender
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Hardlucksville, NY
Congrats. That is a beautiful jacket and the fit looks perfect. The russet color is wonderful. I notice in the pictures you are all smiles. I can see why!
 

Jay

Practically Family
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Location
New Jersey
Swell jacket. I agree, red russet is the best color for an A-2. Now if only I had the funds to supply myself with one...
Being a college student has a lot of down sides.
 

Better Duck

New in Town
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39
Location
Vries, The Netherlands
Hi Dex,

Beautiful jacket! Sleeping in it is an idea! My wife already raises her eyebrows when I wear my ELC RW 1401P inside on a chilly evening. Got to see her when she finds me in bed in my jacket!!:)
You certainly took the plunge giving your jacket, just flown in from the other side of the world, to a local tailor, to have it altered, and in such a big way too! I mean, it isn't as if you asked him to fasten a loose thread!

I'm glad it payed off though!

As to the colour of the jacket: it is amazing, what shades and variations one colour can have, given differences in lighting, camera etc. It is that you say the jacket in all seven photo's is one and the same, otherwise you could have fooled me. Looking forward to some more pictures,

Peter
 

Fedora

Vendor
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828
Location
Mississippi
Welcome to the RMNZ club!! I bought one a few years ago, although mine is not the russet brown. Mine is horse hide, and one day I hope to have it broken in!! It is the only jacket that I have ever owned that will never be for sale. I love the slim cuts of these jackets, and non of my other A-2 were cut like this one. Once you move from the blousy cut to this one, it is hard to ever go back. Fedora
 

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