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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

Motocann

One Too Many
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I really like this Simmons Bilt jacket
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zebedee

One Too Many
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Shanghai
I really like this Simmons Bilt jacket
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That is a fine thing. I like their jackets and I really like their selection of hides. Mine all 'wear'/'hang' totally differently to my Aeros - not in a better or worse way, but the fits are different. My Klondike in black goatskin is really comfortable. The V2 in mahogany steer is also much lighter-feeling than its weight suggests. What hide is this?
 

Tom71

Call Me a Cab
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Europe
That is a fine thing. I like their jackets and I really like their selection of hides. Mine all 'wear'/'hang' totally differently to my Aeros - not in a better or worse way, but the fits are different. My Klondike in black goatskin is really comfortable. The V2 in mahogany steer is also much lighter-feeling than its weight suggests. What hide is this?

This is the "unfinished" horsehide from the Conipel-tannery in Italy. It is a vegetable-tanned horsehide that starts off as a pale pink/white colour but rapidly darkens in natural light (but also rapidly picks ups stains from water, dirt, insects etc.).

It´s pretty substantial, but much less stiff than Aero´s CXL HH. Iron NHeart´s "Pale Rider" shirt/shacket is made from the same hide. It´s really a great leather if you can life with something that is ever changing.
 
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They are knurled wood. Made to look like leather wrapped buttons. I don’t the jacket was ever worn as the button holes are impossibly tight. I weighed this jacket, 7lbs with nothing but a thin nylon liner!
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