Field Leathers

[Aloysius]

Great looking jacket, but does it really button up that way, or are we seeing a reflection?

When I saw this pop up on his sales listing I assumed it was a cancelled but very unusual special order given the combination of elements (car coat, but with a hem cinch, right over left). Still looks very good but that would explain it.

 

[trainspotter]

Greg made a mistake in the buttons placement
Otherwise it was a custom order I guess...happy to have it though. Finally a jacket that is not too tight...

 

[Daniel Veit]

New modified Route 66 :

Overall this jacket is all I looked for. Sadly I have two gripes with this jacket.
First being, that the kidney panel is not symmetrical as can be seen on the pic above. On the right side the panel is 5mm higher than on the left side. Of corse this can only been seen under close inspektion. I still recognised it without need to measure it.

The second fault I find can been seen on the left cuff.
Here a closeup:

It's a little hole/scar in the hide. Maybe that normal and unavoidable but since the rest of the hide is blemishfree it is the more noticeable.
I hope that you can convince me that this both still aceptible in a 1300 pound sterling jacket.


Otherwise it is really nice. A bit on the longer side for a kaff racer (1/4 longer than spect, so very well in the aceptible deviation range) but I still like it.
Here seen with the highest rise jean I own.

 

[Marc mndt]

It's a little hole/scar in the hide. Maybe that normal and unavoidable but since the rest of the hide is blemishfree it is the more noticeable.
I hope that you can convince me that this both still aceptible in a 1300 pound sterling jacket.

Leather is a natural product. Full grain leather will show blemishes.

Is it acceptable on a £1300 jacket? For just £300 or less you can get a sanded/coated blemish-free split leather jacket. Less money less blemishes

First being, that the kidney panel is not symmetrical as can be seen on the pic above. On the right side the panel is 5mm higher than on the left side.

The human body isn't that symmetrical!

Here's my crooked, blemished FL.

 

[Daniel Veit]

Leather is a natural product. Full grain leather will show blemishes.

Is it acceptable on a £1300 jacket? For just £300 or less you can get a sanded/coated blemish-free split leather jacket. Less money less blemishes




The human body isn't that symmetrical!

Here's my crooked, blemished FL.

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Thanks! That put me at ease. Deep in my heart I knew it already but, as with all things new and expensive, I got a little bit overexited.
Thanks for talking your trouble.

 

[dudewuttheheck]

Leather is a natural product. Full grain leather will show blemishes.

Is it acceptable on a £1300 jacket? For just £300 or less you can get a sanded/coated blemish-free split leather jacket. Less money less blemishes




The human body isn't that symmetrical!

Here's my crooked, blemished FL.

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I love being reminded of how beautiful this jacket is.

 

[TooManyHatsOnlyOneHead]

New modified Route 66 :
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Overall this jacket is all I looked for. Sadly I have two gripes with this jacket.
First being, that the kidney panel is not symmetrical as can be seen on the pic above. On the right side the panel is 5mm higher than on the left side. Of corse this can only been seen under close inspektion. I still recognised it without need to measure it.

The second fault I find can been seen on the left cuff.
Here a closeup:
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It's a little hole/scar in the hide. Maybe that normal and unavoidable but since the rest of the hide is blemishfree it is the more noticeable.
I hope that you can convince me that this both still aceptible in a 1300 pound sterling jacket.


Otherwise it is really nice. A bit on the longer side for a kaff racer (1/4 longer than spect, so very well in the aceptible deviation range) but I still like it.
Here seen with the highest rise jean I own.
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is it an actual hole? Like you can see light through it? If so, I wouldn't be cool with that. If it's a disfiguration, scar, etc. then that's fine.

 

[Daniel Veit]

is it an actual hole? Like you can see light through it? If so, I wouldn't be cool with that. If it's a disfiguration, scar, etc. then that's fine.

Just a scar. I have already calmed down. Thanks to the excellent therapy here.

 

[Damon141]

You will have scarring on most hides, and depending on how the scar is placed on the hide, the manufacturer will will try to place it in an area that is less obvious, or if possible sometimes cut around it, but that's not always an option.

Horses in general will have scars because they're only able to use horses that die of natural causes which means the horse has presumably lived a long and healthy life, so they will have bug bites of all kinds, possible scarring from Barbwire, or even from scratching themselves against a fence or a tree.

I will say if it really bothers you that you could shorten the jacket, but it looks good to me, it looks to be about one of the best locations to modify a jacket on one of the best styles given how complicated a sleeve shortening can be when there are zippers involved or compare that to a cross zip with a belt and multiple pockets close to the hem, that would make near impossible to shorten that style.

But again the jacket looks great, and I would wear it in good health, it will only get better the more you wear it.

Thank you so much for sharing your review and the pictures with the board

 

[Marc mndt]

Horses in general will have scars because they're only able to use horses that die of natural causes which means the horse has presumably lived a long and healthy life, so they will have bug bites of all kinds, possible scarring from Barbwire, or even from scratching themselves against a fence or a tree.

From what I've read this might have been true for the United States at one point in time but in Europe horses are laughtered for their meat. Horween gets most of their horsehides from France, Shinki from Poland (if I'm not mistaken).

It's a little hole/scar in the hide.

If it really bothers you, you could fill up the scar with black Urad.

 

[Damon141]

From what I've read this might have been true for the United States at one point in time but in Europe horses are laughtered for their meat. Horween gets most of their horsehides from France, Shinki from Poland (if I'm not mistaken).

Good info, that's just what I always heard. I do remember hearing about certain countries eating horse now that you mentioned it. Obviously Europe has a longer history than America and I remember now that horses would surely be eaten by soldiers.

That's why you always hear of polish horses

 

[Will Zach]

From what I've read this might have been true for the United States at one point in time but in Europe horses are laughtered for their meat. Horween gets most of their horsehides from France, Shinki from Poland (if I'm not mistaken).


If it really bothers you, you could fill up the scar with black Urad.
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When I was at Desolation Row in Tokyo, the sales dude was funny. He asked me where I was from, I said from Poland. He said shinki hides are from Poland, buy a Mulholland and the hide will come home. Nice pitch, but I didn't.

 

[FL2021]

When the Quebecois get the munchies... the hides from Quebec find there way to Horween... Quebec is a large consumer of ...and thus a major supplier of hides to it's brothers south of the 49th parallel

 

[Aloysius]

When I was at Desolation Row in Tokyo, the sales dude was funny. He asked me where I was from, I said from Poland. He said shinki hides are from Poland, buy a Mulholland and the hide will come home. Nice pitch, but I didn't.

Should have asked him for a free jacket/discount in recognition of your heritage!

 

[Daniel Veit]

Some slightly better cell phone pictures of my new jacket:

Panel lining

27 inch back (should have been 26.75, so spot on!)

Some funky dance move (timer setting related problem, no spasm)


Ordered urad to fill the small spot to put my ocd to rest.
Love all

 

[Canuck Panda]

Damn it's real nice fit and all. You have another jacket in the queue right?

 

[Daniel Veit]

Damn it's real nice fit and all. You have another jacket in the queue right?

Thank you!

Yes. I will get a modified halfbelt when and if they will start using semianiline, dyed through brown hide.
Unfortunatly, though understandably, the brown shinki pony is history.
But we are getting the fit jacket done now, so that the production can Start asap.


Sidenote: Consider to use moleskin as a lining. Very velvet-like but durable at the same time. Happy that I did choose it over the tartan wool.

 

[handymike]

Moleskin is awesome, I love it in pockets.

 

[Daniel Veit]

Moleskin is awesome, I love it in pockets.

Yes, it's not in mine though : not enough cloth left. But I got nice white corduroy-like lining instead.

 

[Canuck Panda]

Thank you!

Yes. I will get a modified halfbelt when and if they will start using semianiline, dyed through brown hide.
Unfortunatly, though understandably, the brown shinki pony is history.
But we are getting the fit jacket done now, so that the production can Start asap.


Sidenote: Consider to use moleskin as a lining. Very velvet-like but durable at the same time. Happy that I did choose it over the tartan wool.

Their Scottish moleskin is nice, I use it on most of my custom Aero builds too. But I went with a heavy tweed on my Field leather build because I don't have those yet and wanted to try.

The ponyhide is really nice, has a real nice drape but still dense horsehide feeling. The brown is hard because the semi aniline finish shows all the imperfections. But if going all the way to pigment then the drape would decrease a bit from the stiffer paint. This is a hard one, Greg needs to work with the tannery to figure something out.