nick123
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I'm lost. I have no idea what you guys are referring to lol. It's been a long week.
Carlos my choice if you liked the leather tabs would have been to put a couple a few stitches on it like on some leather works maybe forming a X or something. Pretty and would have saved you the trouble of sanding the pointy edge.
I somehow don't really understand it's function though. If you pull it back it stays in place? It doesn't fall back?
Carlos my choice if you liked the leather tabs would have been to put a couple a few stitches on it like on some leather works maybe forming a X or something. Pretty and would have saved you the trouble of sanding the pointy edge.
I somehow don't really understand it's function though. If you pull it back it stays in place? It doesn't fall back?
Carlos what’s your opinion himel or Freewheelers? Who do you like best?
Thanks.
To recognize precise stitching you need to see and handle many many many different jackets and inspect them.
Check for straightness of stitching, evenness between stitches, evenness of edge folds, how many mistakes per jacket, just ask yourself "could anything be done better/more precisely?"
IME a Schott is usually a 2 or 3 mistake per jacket middle of the range. A Freewheelers is usually a 0 mistake per jacket.
Full disclosure, it might be healthier to not bother with all that and just not think about it...
Is this jacket warm?
This is just a quick update about the only negative thing i could find on the LaBrea and how i fixed it.
As i pointed out in the first page, the jacket turned up with these cute little leather pads glued on to the sleeve zipper sliders:
Unfortunately they didn't stay on there very long, within a couple weeks i had lost both of them, leaving me with these very aggressive looking spikes:
As you can imagine, what had to happened happened, it scratched the crap out of everything. I could literally not sit at a table without fearing i would scratch it, i scratched my desk, i scratched my steering wheel, i couldn't touch a thing without scratching it.
I even started not wearing this jacket if i new i would do anything that day where i would end up in a situation where my wrists would touch anything i could potentially scratch.
Ironically, i scratched everything but the jacket itself!
I really don't understand the thinking behind using these zippers for sleeves, i don't know if it is a historical thing, but i have not seen them used on other jackets than Freewheelers. To me they shoudl be pocket zippers, not sleeves.
Today i went on the offensive, enough is enough!:
I bought a set of tiny files, used the packaging they came in as protection not to scratch the jacket and went at it.
Halfway through, the zipper is plated brass so i don't need to worry about the exposed bit rusting.
Done, the aggressive nub is filed flat, no more scratching anything, i can once again carelessly wear my favourite jacket!
I have lost the locking function of the zippers, but i don't care to be honest, it is a small price to pay and i care about not scratching everything i touch far more!
What do you guys think? Did i ruin my jacket? What would you have done?
This actually brings up a good question for me as well - how does everyone handle buying a jacket like this from Japan? What I mean is, the la brea is expensive, and while the measurements seem to work (I'm a 46 in a FCL Leon, so 46 in FW I'd imagine), you never really know until you get it. But you can't return these. Any advice?
I send photos to Watanabe-san of Genco Clothing of a jacket that fits me with measurements.
He looks at those photos and measures the jackets he has in stock the same way as the photos I sent, and sends them back to me.
That way we can compare measurements and come to a conclusion together.
He had three 42 LA Breas when I bought one from him, he measured all three so I could compare them all and I chose the one I like the most out of the three measurement wise, as there are tolerances in construction.
Two things to consider.
1. No you can not return the jacket. Be sure you know what you are buying.
2. EMS is NOT shipping anything this large or heavy to the USA due to Covid. Only DHL or FedEx. What does this mean? EMS would normally be a $70 shipping charge. FedEx is over $300.
Because of that I have been patiently waiting for my LaBrea, since April or May of last year. It is already a $2500 jacket. I don't want to pay hundreds more to ship it, unfortunately. So if you want it now shipping is expensive.
I have a Centinella to hold me over until EMS resumes. If it were my first FW jacket I would have crumbled long ago...Impressive restraint. You are stronger than I am. I may have held out until the end of summer 2020, maybe.
This actually brings up a good question for me as well - how does everyone handle buying a jacket like this from Japan? What I mean is, the la brea is expensive, and while the measurements seem to work (I'm a 46 in a FCL Leon, so 46 in FW I'd imagine), you never really know until you get it. But you can't return these. Any advice?
I send photos to Watanabe-san of Genco Clothing of a jacket that fits me with measurements.
He looks at those photos and measures the jackets he has in stock the same way as the photos I sent, and sends them back to me.
That way we can compare measurements and come to a conclusion together.
He had three 42 La Breas when I bought one from him, he measured all three so I could compare them all and I chose the one I like the most out of the three measurement wise, as there are tolerances in construction.
Two things to consider.
1. No you can not return the jacket. Be sure you know what you are buying.
2. EMS is NOT shipping anything this large or heavy to the USA due to Covid. Only DHL or FedEx. What does this mean? EMS would normally be a $70 shipping charge. FedEx is over $300.
Because of that I have been patiently waiting for my LaBrea, since April or May of last year. It is already a $2500 jacket. I don't want to pay hundreds more to ship it, unfortunately. So if you want it now shipping is expensive.