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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

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I have been wearing my LaBrea everyday now for the past few weeks, and got to travel with it on airplanes and airports etc. with a recent vacation. Also wearing my newly discovered love of Tanuki jeans I discovered on said trip.

That being said this LaBrea is not breaking easy. The cuffs have taken their sweet time to soften up and stop fighting me. The D-pocket is adding rigidity to the trunk of the jacket. Going to be a while longer before this jacket gets broken. I am up to the challenge!

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I have been wearing my LaBrea everyday now for the past few weeks, and got to travel with it on airplanes and airports etc. with a recent vacation. Also wearing my newly discovered love of Tanuki jeans I discovered on said trip.

That being said this LaBrea is not breaking easy. The cuffs have taken their sweet time to soften up and stop fighting me. The D-pocket is adding rigidity to the trunk of the jacket. Going to be a while longer before this jacket gets broken. I am up to the challenge!

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This single photo answers the question:
What Is the Allure of Japanese Leather Jackets?
If you don' see it here, then you are not a student of this pursuit, and should be exiled from the dojo.
 
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Thanks y’all I feel lucky every time I put it on!
I wish my PHWM would've fit that way. It wasn't built like yours. I think you were lucky in that the body has this shape: \/ rather than the one mine had(). Yours looks closer to an SB Tailgunner through the body, massive improvement and it shows.
 

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I have been wearing my LaBrea everyday now for the past few weeks, and got to travel with it on airplanes and airports etc. with a recent vacation. Also wearing my newly discovered love of Tanuki jeans I discovered on said trip.

That being said this LaBrea is not breaking easy. The cuffs have taken their sweet time to soften up and stop fighting me. The D-pocket is adding rigidity to the trunk of the jacket. Going to be a while longer before this jacket gets broken. I am up to the challenge!

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this is something else. The details are outstanding, yet there is an overall elegant simpleness. I've been eyeing these but way out of my price range. Something like this would be the ONE jacket if I was forced to only pick one.
 

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this is something else. The details are outstanding, yet there is an overall elegant simpleness. I've been eyeing these but way out of my price range. Something like this would be the ONE jacket if I was forced to only pick one.

Thank you for your comment!

It is one of the reasons I became interested in these early Leathertogs jackets. They lack pockets I just don't use, and have little details that I find interesting (like the symmetrical lapels) due to the history and maker. It could easily be my one jacket, but then my Centinela says otherwise... "I can be your only jacket, you don't have to wear that LaBrea..." says my Centinela. The LaBrea just shrugs. :)
 
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The black Hercules is pretty much the exact same size as my brown one, only it feels longer. It has no storm cuffs, no inside pocket, and an additional French seam along the bottom of the sleeve where the brown one doesn't. I like it, but now I have to buy black boots, and a black hat.
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The black Hercules is pretty much the exact same size as my brown one, only it feels longer. It has no storm cuffs, no inside pocket, and an additional French seam along the bottom of the sleeve where the brown one doesn't. I like it, but now I have to buy black boots, and a black hat.
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No need for boots. Keep it real:
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Gorgeous jacket btw...who made it? JC?
 

jonesy86

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No need for boots. Keep it real:
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Gorgeous jacket btw...who made it? JC?

Yeah, you're right I just wear da slippah.

It is a Good Wear Leather Coat Company Hercules, in a black Horween Mustang horsehide. This is what the master said about the brown one:

This one is made with Horween Mustang horsehide, which is a wax finish, and it has a ton of natural grain. I really like this one, and it's comfortable to wear. I took apart a vintage 1938 Hercules for the pattern (oddly enough, a size 44, and all I've changed is making the body and sleeves a little longer...
it's a proof of concept jacket. I've gotten my double-needle machine set up at 1/4" gap, which is how all the body seams are sewn, and it did a fantastic job. I see why Monarch used these machines for the seams. It's so much easier than rolled seams, which the back yoke and sleeve/body joints use.

He got this pattern right! That makes 10 GWs I now own. :cool:
 
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