What's your favorite flavor of...Brown?

[handymike]

Hey guys,
A couple of leather jackets are coming down the pike over at SJC.
Here's your chance to weigh in on which style of brown hide you prefer.
Black is already a go, so choose your brown!
Cheers.

 

[Sloan1874]

I personally would love to have one of each, but I tend to like a brown with hint of red, just to give it some depth.

 

[Worf]

Russet... the other's offer no contrast to my natural condition as it were, though I do own them.

Worf

 

[nick123]

60/40

60=red brown
40=russet

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I actually prefer russet but in the case versatility, red brown (dark brown that leans toward burgundy...

 

[navetsea]

darker brown that would age lighter are common, why not tan that would age darker

pairing it with a new jeans that starts off dark, and then as the jeans fade the jacket darkens, sounds like an interesting journey to me

 

[Barabus]

Dark brown always looks cool. The new black.

 

[Surferbruce]

Tan is highly underrated.

 

[Big J]

Seal. So dark it's almost black.

 

[handymike]

Ok guys, here are some color swatches for you to get a better visual idea.

Tan (Brown Sugar)

Cognac (Leather Brown)

Russet (Coconut Shell)

Reddish Brown (Russet Brown)

Dark Brown (Friar Brown)

Keep in mind that all screens are a bit different.
Thanks again!

 

[Mark]

That don't look like leather to me handymike? [huh]

 

[handymike]

Right you are Mark, those are cotton samples.
Imagine how much better those colors will be in Steerhide

 

[Peacoat]

Horween's chromexcel brown used by Aero in its jackets. I have it in the Thunderbay and the Sheene and love it for its dark rich color.

 

[Fanch]

Horween's chromexcel brown used by Aero in its jackets. I have it in the Thunderbay and the Sheene and love it for its dark rich color.

+1. My Teamster is made from Horween's chromexcel brown FQHH that is IMO reddish brown in appearance and has a rich, luxurious look and feel that is hard to put into words.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

This color of FQHH, for me. Rich brown with mottled lighter highlights that develop more with wear...

 

[Fanch]

HD that is the one I was talking about. :thumb:

 

[Sloan1874]

Personally, I've found that as brown FQHH breaks in, the reddy tones come through. I wonder whether what we're seeing in the poll is cross-over between dark and reddy options in terms of how people think about Horween's brown FQHH.

 

[nick123]

I loved the almost cordovan shade of the Highwayman I owned (pay no attention to the fit!). This is the "reddish brown" I have in mind.

 

[bn1966]

Like them all on different jackets

 

[bn1966]

Now this was last years shade:

 

[pawineguy]

I voted for russet as it's my current favorite jacket but I like having one in dark also, just not too dark so that it looks black. I guess most would call it seal, as opposed to dark seal. That's the difficulty in differentiating between names, as even with the Vincenza we have seen that hide colors aren't always consistent, both between different batches and between different hides within the same batch.