nick123
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Maybe it's the multitude of factors described at play at once.
Doubt it's any different drying method by Horween. If they changed part of their tanning method as drastic as that, I'm sure it would be known. I know you remarked your FQHH in this jacket felt different, so I can't blame you for trying to put two and two together. But I don't think it's that.
Maybe your FQHH being lighter or more supple or whatever did cause it to crease differently than the others. But then there's Dav's example, kind of dispelling the theory that a different weight of FQHH would be the cause.
It's probably the rapid climate change of China to the UK, combined with god knows what kind of climate/conditions the jacket experienced folded up in a suitcase stored in the bottom of an aircraft, or outside while the luggage guys handled it. This combined with it just being folded up in the conservative way you described might have been just enough to cause the perfect storm.
I really don't know if leather drying out/being exposed to humidty or rapid change of temperature would even shrink the jacket. All speculation. I think there's enough fat/oil infused in the FQHH to keep it supple.
Conclusion: somehow it was folded funny, with just enough weird humidity going on.
Doubt it's any different drying method by Horween. If they changed part of their tanning method as drastic as that, I'm sure it would be known. I know you remarked your FQHH in this jacket felt different, so I can't blame you for trying to put two and two together. But I don't think it's that.
Maybe your FQHH being lighter or more supple or whatever did cause it to crease differently than the others. But then there's Dav's example, kind of dispelling the theory that a different weight of FQHH would be the cause.
It's probably the rapid climate change of China to the UK, combined with god knows what kind of climate/conditions the jacket experienced folded up in a suitcase stored in the bottom of an aircraft, or outside while the luggage guys handled it. This combined with it just being folded up in the conservative way you described might have been just enough to cause the perfect storm.
I really don't know if leather drying out/being exposed to humidty or rapid change of temperature would even shrink the jacket. All speculation. I think there's enough fat/oil infused in the FQHH to keep it supple.
Conclusion: somehow it was folded funny, with just enough weird humidity going on.
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