AeroFan_07
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To the OP - if this is your "first" leather jacket, I would cut your budget in half at least, and start with the Schott or a similar Vanson model such have been mentioned above. This will give you an idea of what you can have, will like, or will not like.
Hundreds of pages in this forum have been devoted to leather weights, usability and break-in. Each finds a slightly differently but often rather similar path.
I take it you are looking at Fine Creek through Self Edge's website?
I would look around a little more before making that your first legitimate leather jacket.
For reference, my first "new" Leather jacket purchase was in 1990 at JC Pennies in Champaign IL. on a terrible fitting bomber jacket. I paid a whopping $129 for it, which was a lot of money for me newly into college. A couple years later I picked up an Excelled "perfecto style" motorcycle jacket (which was around $85) and it's been all downhill ever since.
Hundreds of pages in this forum have been devoted to leather weights, usability and break-in. Each finds a slightly differently but often rather similar path.
I take it you are looking at Fine Creek through Self Edge's website?
I would look around a little more before making that your first legitimate leather jacket.
For reference, my first "new" Leather jacket purchase was in 1990 at JC Pennies in Champaign IL. on a terrible fitting bomber jacket. I paid a whopping $129 for it, which was a lot of money for me newly into college. A couple years later I picked up an Excelled "perfecto style" motorcycle jacket (which was around $85) and it's been all downhill ever since.