What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

[Monitor]

My profession requires that I maintain a somewhat lower profile than many however, in the context of jacket alterations on something known to be a top drawer product there's at least a minimum explanation due and maybe a fit pic.

Many years ago there was a cook on TV named Graham Kerr. Called himself the Galloping Gourmet. He nearly always wore a sport jacket and as an impressionable young man I was at the time trying to figure out what I liked and how to articulate my sense of what looked right to me. I didn't watch his program w/ any regularity but I did see part of an episode wherein he said he was wearing his favorite sport jacket and the hem of the jacket just barely touched the inside crook his fingers formed if he bent them inward in a U shape with his arm extended straight downward.

For more than 40 years I've measured sport jackets that way and certain other jackets as well, this peacoat among them.

I'm a little more torso than leg and for me that means a little more length in a jacket is better than a little less. I'm 5' 10" and this Lost Worlds leather peacoat is a 46L meant for a tall man with at least a 36" sleeve. The back length from neck to hem is what I wanted and the sleeve length I had shortened by 1.5" to better fit my 18-34/35 frame.

She's heavy and she's loud and I like her a lot. Sorry about the splooge on the mirror. I think Monitor may have brushed his teeth in front of it. The sleeve length though? Nailed it. It had a couple of backing buttons that needed to be replaced as well. Xlnt work. Ninety bucks out the door.

The comment from the leather shop when I went to pick the jacket up?

"Oh man, you can't get leather like this in the US anymore."

I didn't have the heart to tell him that IIRC it was tanned in NY.

Looks like that shirt cuff has been playing in the dirt, too. That one gets retired in 5, 4, 3...


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That's the thing - LW makes a good jacket. And I like this a lot more than the biker ones right now. Mine was made from the same leather, I believe.

 

[Trouser Bark]

The dog in the photo attracts more attention)

He does. Phenomenal worker but if he's not worked every day there will be hell to pay.

 

[Monitor]

Ran out to grab some paper for watercolor painting & a street style photographer took our photo.

 

[Marc mndt]

Ran out to grab some paper for watercolor painting & a street style photographer took our photo.

Looking great! Perfect outfits, both if you.

 

[Monitor]

Looking great! Perfect outfits, both if you.

You may recognize the Perfecto she's wearing. It's the Excelled, still as strong and beautiful as the day it arrived.

 

[Bennarion]

Ran out to grab some paper for watercolor painting & a street style photographer took our photo.

Great photo. It's nice to see how naturally and unobtrusively you are dressed

 

[Monte.C]

Ran out to grab some paper for watercolor painting & a street style photographer took our photo.

Couldn't be a more perfect image. Makes me want to buy you both a coffee. Let me know when you're in NY.

 

[KBlake]

 

[cbez]

Toys mccoy. Not as beefy as my RC and the sleeves are a little long for Mr. Trex. But they got some fantastic tones out of the aniline veg tan. And I lovethe warm colored mouton.

 

[Cskarev]