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    Leather jacket sizing, too big or small?

    I feel like it's Instagram and word of mouth for locals, then more fashion brand OEM manufacturing than they can handle, so there's no need to do more.
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    Walden Miller "Magnum" steerhide motorcycle jacket

    I remember Sator (who was something of a subject matter expert on tailoring on the forums about 15 years ago, until he married a woman who disliked menswear so he turned against it) talking about how lots of the fairly recent (60s and 70s for instance) Australian tailoring had more handwork than...
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    Wise words to live by (jacket related)

    Most of the main points have made, so I'll add this: don't feel like owning/wearing a leather jacket needs to change the way you wear the rest of your clothes. Especially don't get a giant chain wallet, neck tattoos, stitchdown boots, etc to "match" your jacket. You'll simply look ridiculous...
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    Leather jacket sizing, too big or small?

    Every other American woman owns this jacket except she was wise enough to pay less than $100 for it lol.
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    Leather jacket sizing, too big or small?

    Yeah I was mentioning the Johnson stuff just to explain to him who they are, not to rag on his original reaction. It's totally understandable that he'd have no idea because they are primarily a white label brand; like how a random person, even a fashionable one, probably won't know what Caruso...
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    Vanson! Vanson! Vanson!

    My Octagon was the last one at Vanson, there for years before I spotted it I think. It's a sort of light-mid mottled tan.
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    No more Schott forum

    Not necessarily. The Schott forum was a holdover from when companies often made their own in-house forum software. I expect whoever coded it is long gone.
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    No more Schott forum

    I had no idea. Can you let the person know it would be great if they even locked it to new posts but left the archive up? I'll voice the same when I visit Schott later this month.
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    Vanson! Vanson! Vanson!

    Seems too dark for Octagon cow and not red enough for Octagon horse but I could be wrong. Looks amazing either way.
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    Leather jacket sizing, too big or small?

    Quite a few of us are into fashion, actually. The pushback against, say Real McCoys or Fine Creek or whatever at the time as "fashion jackets" is actually usually by someone like @Monitor pointing out that these brands are essentially nobodies in the fashion space. When I said I assumed this...
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    US Navy & US Marine Corp Boat Cloaks, and US Army Capes

    I wonder how much it hurt the tailoring trade in the US when US dress uniforms went from being basically a voucher redeemed at the tailors in the area to being factory-produced garments. Indeed I wonder if that actually increased costs to some extent because it means necessarily making too...
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    Partially Shot Schott... What Would You Do?

    Yes. Reach out to them.
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    Partially Shot Schott... What Would You Do?

    Have you contacted Schott support? They're surprisingly affordable for repairs and mods.
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    Footwear to go with our jackets

    Maybe some higher top field sneakers? This is the raison d'être of Danner's Trail shoes, but I haven't tried them myself. Might fit the bill for him.
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    Leather jacket sizing, too big or small?

    Really? I honestly assumed it was a $200 made-in-Pakistan "motorcycle jacket" from Amazon from the pic. (Nothing wrong with that, to be clear, and it wouldn't have stopped me from giving you fit advice.) But hearing it cost $2000 is horrifying. Perhaps it shouldn't have surprised me because...
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    Finds and Deals - Leather Jacket Edition

    L. Strauss Indianapolis Is there a chance this is a different L. Strauss than Levi Strauss SF?
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    Advice needed for first top-tier G-1 leather jacket purchase

    If you don't want to go full fur jacket (which are not very versatile so I get that) I think an N-1 would be great. When it comes to Japanese companies, I like the special N-1s Buzz Rickson's made for HPA in New Jersey in blue and khaki.
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    Lewis Leathers botched repair job on boots

    Great to see where Lewis's massive price increase is going.
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    Advice needed for first top-tier G-1 leather jacket purchase

    Not all Japanese companies take a fashion/luxe approach but RC definitely does, modern RMC definitely does. There's a reason the Eastman ones are perennial bestsellers over there.
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    Advice needed for first top-tier G-1 leather jacket purchase

    I would not consider Rainbow Country for this at all, not just because of the price. They make some good stuff for sure, but the G-1 and its siblings are widely available and frankly luxe-ing them up would take away from much of what makes them great. The only Japanese maker I would be happy to...

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