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I had this horsehide jacket from the Japanese maker Fine Creek & Co. for a week and I learned that this is worn ideally as a light jacket that you carry along nearly everyday and throw on just about anywhere. With its collarless design and bare essentials (no pockets), it is like a convenient, bring-along blanket. Bunch it up in your hand, drape it over your arm, throw it over your shoulder, toss it onto the passenger seat.
If there were such prerequisites during the design, rapid creases and grains were part of this jacket’s DNA. On the first day when I pulled it out of its plastic bag, drenched with the fresh, scent of horsehide, it was as smooth as newly-laid wet concrete; but, as soon as I slipped it on, the jacket took shape and form with the speed of an exotic fever. I had no chance of taking a picture of it looking new—that moment was gone. Creases and grains suddenly appeared. Just like that.
Day 1, after trying it on for a couple of minutes:
Day 3, with wearing only in the morning and in the afternoon for those days:
This two-tone horsehide jacket is made with the tea-core feature. It must have been made with the sole-intention of “wabi sabi” defining its purpose.
I am lucky that this jacket fits me like a glove. Stiff at first but softened up faster than any horsehide I’ve ever owned, aside from the Iron Heart + Self Edge Cafe I recently got—that one came ridiculously soft! These are the first two Japanese leather jackets I’ve experienced and they’ve deeply ingrained into my mental map the quality one can expect from respected Japanese makers.
Which means, unfortunately, my horizon for exquisite makers of fine leather jackets just expanded.
These pictures were taken from Day 1:
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If there were such prerequisites during the design, rapid creases and grains were part of this jacket’s DNA. On the first day when I pulled it out of its plastic bag, drenched with the fresh, scent of horsehide, it was as smooth as newly-laid wet concrete; but, as soon as I slipped it on, the jacket took shape and form with the speed of an exotic fever. I had no chance of taking a picture of it looking new—that moment was gone. Creases and grains suddenly appeared. Just like that.
Day 1, after trying it on for a couple of minutes:
Day 3, with wearing only in the morning and in the afternoon for those days:
This two-tone horsehide jacket is made with the tea-core feature. It must have been made with the sole-intention of “wabi sabi” defining its purpose.
I am lucky that this jacket fits me like a glove. Stiff at first but softened up faster than any horsehide I’ve ever owned, aside from the Iron Heart + Self Edge Cafe I recently got—that one came ridiculously soft! These are the first two Japanese leather jackets I’ve experienced and they’ve deeply ingrained into my mental map the quality one can expect from respected Japanese makers.
Which means, unfortunately, my horizon for exquisite makers of fine leather jackets just expanded.
These pictures were taken from Day 1:
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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