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A few days ago o posed about an AMF jacket that I was interested in. Fairly certain it was made by brooks.
This jacket just arrived and it is glorious. Fits great and a far nicer leather than my other brooks gold label:
Ordinarily this would be a no brained to keep for me. However, I wanted to make sure of a few things first.
1. The jacket has a slight cigarette odour to it. I’m planning on soaking it in the tub then conditioning it (but if I do so I won’t be able to return it anymore if the scent doesn’t go)
2. There cuffs of the jacket show some peeling of the leather. I don’t care about wear, patina etc., I just want to confirm, this is not dry rot right? I shouldn’t expect this to worsen right?
3. The leather is extremely squeaky, do brooks usually behave like this?
If these issues are nothing to worry about I will definitely be keeping
This jacket just arrived and it is glorious. Fits great and a far nicer leather than my other brooks gold label:
Ordinarily this would be a no brained to keep for me. However, I wanted to make sure of a few things first.
1. The jacket has a slight cigarette odour to it. I’m planning on soaking it in the tub then conditioning it (but if I do so I won’t be able to return it anymore if the scent doesn’t go)
2. There cuffs of the jacket show some peeling of the leather. I don’t care about wear, patina etc., I just want to confirm, this is not dry rot right? I shouldn’t expect this to worsen right?
3. The leather is extremely squeaky, do brooks usually behave like this?
If these issues are nothing to worry about I will definitely be keeping