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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

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5 star squeaky seal goat. This is the perfect jacket to wear following your kid on foot as she rides her bike on a 45 degree day. Dad fit.
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torfjord

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Was there something different in the tanning back then? In some ways yes, but modern makers often recreate those things. Styling? Sure but again we have some who do stitch by stitch repros. Made with love or something haha? Modern makers use a lot of love. So was there something or somethings different and lost to modern times? I’m sure. The difference to me in terms of that look and feeling of vintage verse no matter how much we spend or design and tweak to “perfection”is simple: the vintage things have been lived in. They have stories to tell, a drape, patina, grime. They have life in them.

I’m not saying that these vintage jackets having the worn in look isn’t a factor, I think it is. But I also think another important factor is that they are a finite resource. A lot of these items you can’t just get today, because the companies who made them aren’t around anymore. The only way is searching and looking and then when you score something and it fits and it’s awesome, you know it’s a unique thing, you can’t have someone reproduce it today exactly the same.
 

dannyk

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I’m not saying that these vintage jackets having the worn in look isn’t a factor, I think it is. But I also think another important factor is that they are a finite resource. A lot of these items you can’t just get today, because the companies who made them aren’t around anymore. The only way is searching and looking and then when you score something and it fits and it’s awesome, you know it’s a unique thing, you can’t have someone reproduce it today exactly the same.
I mean for sure. But that’s also not like a tangible factor. It’s the story they tell. The life history they carry with them. Super important stuff. I love the history as much as I love the look. I just meant like so little of what makes them awesome is some like lost technique or material....it’s the story, and the life they lived. It adds so much character to them.
 

TooManyHatsOnlyOneHead

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Selling? Why? It’s a cool jacket. Perfect color for sunny weather
yeah, I know. You're right. It's not even worth the trouble. Was more about finding someone who really wants one and will wear it. At this point, the beautiful talon zips are worth more than the jacket. Ok, I'm keeping. LOL. This happens with all my jackets I go to sell. Thank God I have space in garage and 2 boys that soon can wear this stuff. Hopefully they won't end up vegan LOL :p:p:p:p
 

TooManyHatsOnlyOneHead

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I mean for sure. But that’s also not like a tangible factor. It’s the story they tell. The life history they carry with them. Super important stuff. I love the history as much as I love the look. I just meant like so little of what makes them awesome is some like lost technique or material....it’s the story, and the life they lived. It adds so much character to them.
exactly this. Was the point of my Cal thread I did the other day. None of my new jackets will ever come close because there's not enough chance to wear them. Plus and probably more importantly, I don't ride, so they're not getting exposed to all those elements. 60 or 70 years of wear can't be recreated with hand vintaging and whatever else. But I am very curious how some of our jackets will evolve in the next 20-30 years. Especially the shinki and teacore stuff, a lot of the Thedi, etc. I think this is why I'm justifying all these purchases now. Almost like investing early. Get in now, start wearing, and before I'm ready to die hopefully some of these will start peaking LOL ;););)
 

Marc mndt

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I’m not saying that these vintage jackets having the worn in look isn’t a factor, I think it is. But I also think another important factor is that they are a finite resource. A lot of these items you can’t just get today, because the companies who made them aren’t around anymore. The only way is searching and looking and then when you score something and it fits and it’s awesome, you know it’s a unique thing, you can’t have someone reproduce it today exactly the same.
I wonder why they can't make leather like this anymore. If they could do it back then, why can't they do it now?
 

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