Vanson! Vanson! Vanson!

[VansonRider]

I enjoyed wearing my Model B so much! But it was a House model that someone's removed the patches from so stitch holes always annoyed me but it is among the most perfect, complete jackets that I ever had.

That is SO irritating. One, I LIKE the stripes on the House jacket (and Hugh Laurie is brilliant) but two, if you don't like the patches or stripes on a jacket, just sell it off! I've gotten rid of jackets after deciding I couldn't live with a patch, but I straight up don't buy jackets with holes in them. I've even skipped jackets with straight pin holes on the lapels.
Just don't poke holes in jackets...
We live in a SOCIETY...

 

[TartuWolf]

It's an awesome jacket all around, and it would be WELL worth the expense of raising the hem and installing the shorter zipper.

If it was an Oxford in brass hardware I would consider it. The mandarin collar and nickel really need to grow on me first.

 

[RockSolid]

Great fit i'm happy you enjoy it

 

[Monitor]

@Monitor What happened to your Model B in the end? Sold it off or still have it?
I also like the design quite a bit (apart from body length), but I would gladly take the 9D Oxford instead of this.
Although I guess it's basically the same jacket apart from the collar.

Sold it. Couldn't stand the stitch holes. Can't really settle with that. I also bought that Schott racer jackets with patches that somebody had removed and even though it immediately became the only jacket I wanted to wear, how warm, comfortable & perfect in every way it was. . . But those damn stitch holes. I'd buy another one if it wasn't so ugly with the patches. They should re-release it in clean black.

They don't shorten the B enough for the smaller sizes. That's the issue with them. The one I got was 25" back which is spot on for me.

 

[Monitor]

That is SO irritating. One, I LIKE the stripes on the House jacket (and Hugh Laurie is brilliant) but two, if you don't like the patches or stripes on a jacket, just sell it off! I've gotten rid of jackets after deciding I couldn't live with a patch, but I straight up don't buy jackets with holes in them. I've even skipped jackets with straight pin holes on the lapels.
Just don't poke holes in jackets...
We live in a SOCIETY...

Exactly but if someone had told me, I would't have believed how many jackets there are out there that people have been messing about with, ripping out patches and what not. There's no patch ugly enough that I'd rather have stitch holes instead.

 

[TREEMAN]

Leather jacket mutilation is a rising trend. When one is for sale the sellers boast that the mutilation was done professionally …

 

[Bluechel]

Damn them!! I do know what you mean about holes though. Especially lapel holes!!!

 

[Aloysius]

Jacket mutilation is a rising trend. When one is for sale the sellers boast that the mutilation was done professionally …

I was arguing with a guy recently who was trying to explain to me how much cooler you become when you cut stuff off of your leather jacket lol.

Stupidest trend in workwear.

 

[jkoj]

It’s expensive living close to Vanson. Look what I got. Wooop woooop

 

[Bluechel]

It’s expensive living close to Vanson. Look what I got. Wooop woooop

On sale I hope!!

 

[jkoj]

I got 10% off lol

 

[TREEMAN]

Which leather is that ?

 

[f2002q]

It’s expensive living close to Vanson. Look what I got. Wooop woooop

I’m 1 and 1/2 hours away and the boss has forbidden me to even think about taking a trip there. Last time we went I came out with two jackets.

 

[jkoj]

Which leather is that ?

X150

 

[Aloysius]

It’s expensive living close to Vanson. Look what I got. Wooop woooop

This was in the clearance right? I came close to biting several times. It’s so much cooler than the ‘high end’ knockoffs of it lol.

 

[JMax]

It’s expensive living close to Vanson. Look what I got. Wooop woooop

I thank the almighty every day for not putting me close to Vanson, Cal or JL. Good thing LW doesn’t have a shop to visit.

Sweet jacket, and the X is awesome.

 

[jkoj]

I’m 1 and 1/2 hours away and the boss has forbidden me to even think about taking a trip there. Last time we went I came out with two jackets.

I hear that. I don’t even tell my wife when I go there lol

This was in the clearance right? I came close to biting several times. It’s so much cooler than the ‘high end’ knockoffs of it lol.

I wish it was in clearance but it wasn’t. They have 1 left in large. It’s no longer in production I guess.

 

[panigale]

It likely is.

Here's my HH Comet with the tag and Riri zip for comparison.

A real beauty. Love it.
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I want it!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Aloysius]

Comp weight has a brown core now, it seems. At least some batches. New photos of the Chopper on Vanson's site show the grainy hide I saw earlier this year, but look at the belts; brown core instead of dyed-through black.

 

[jkoj]

Love that shit