Original-fliegerjacken.de sells a Luftwaffe jacket whitch they call Arado and that is made from Aero Leathers. I am thinking about geting one of these for at least 6 month now (yes I know, I just ordered a A2 38-1711-P [huh] ). The main reason for me to like this jacket so much are the fabulous pictures of this special order Arado original-fliegerjacken.de display on their homepage.
Yesterday something funny happened. I have a friend I see about twice a month, from whom I know that he has one of these Arado jackets. A few month back I took a glance at it, but since I was in a hurry it only took a few seconds. Since then I allways wanted to take another look at the jacket but never managed to do so, until yesterday.
I am 1.5" to 2" taller than my friend and about 20 to 30 pounds more heavy, so trying the jacket on never realy came to my mind, since he must be a size 38 or 40 and I have a 44" chest. Boy was I surprised to find out that the jacket my friend owns is not only a size 44, but that it is the jacket pictured above and used on the homepage of original-fliegerjacken.de to advertise the Arado. My friend is left handed and asked for the map pocket to be on the other side. He also wanted another liner, one that is warmer and a little more robust than the red lining normaly used.
The tag inside the jacket says "Made of Steerhide" which is also a surprise, since they are normaly only offered in horse hide and heavy horse hide. The quality of the jacket is superp, the leather feels great and is medium thick but still very heavy. The only thing that was a little annoying was, that the zippers where still very hard to operate, since the jacket has not gotten much wear time so far.
The cut of the Arado seems to be rather generous. Wearing just a T-Shirt I still had plenty of room in it and even with my thick Super-Dry hooded sweatshirt I could wear it comfortably.
Sadly I did not have my camera with me, so I only have a crappy i-Phone photo so far. There wasn't much time to take pictures anyways since whe met with 30 people to smoke cigars and have a good time. Another friend of mine made 2 or 3 pictures with a better camera, but he still has to send those to me.
Here is the one I have so far. As soon as the other pictures are in my mailbox I'll post them as well.
Now I only need an idea how I can convince my wive, that I'll need another leather jacket for 800,00 € in the not so distant future. With the A2 30-1711-P just being ordered and our second child on the way I fear she will not be to understanding about this projekt. I might also try to talk my friend into lending me that jacket to take some better pictures of the jacket as a whole and all its details, if there is anybody interested in it.
Yesterday something funny happened. I have a friend I see about twice a month, from whom I know that he has one of these Arado jackets. A few month back I took a glance at it, but since I was in a hurry it only took a few seconds. Since then I allways wanted to take another look at the jacket but never managed to do so, until yesterday.
I am 1.5" to 2" taller than my friend and about 20 to 30 pounds more heavy, so trying the jacket on never realy came to my mind, since he must be a size 38 or 40 and I have a 44" chest. Boy was I surprised to find out that the jacket my friend owns is not only a size 44, but that it is the jacket pictured above and used on the homepage of original-fliegerjacken.de to advertise the Arado. My friend is left handed and asked for the map pocket to be on the other side. He also wanted another liner, one that is warmer and a little more robust than the red lining normaly used.
The tag inside the jacket says "Made of Steerhide" which is also a surprise, since they are normaly only offered in horse hide and heavy horse hide. The quality of the jacket is superp, the leather feels great and is medium thick but still very heavy. The only thing that was a little annoying was, that the zippers where still very hard to operate, since the jacket has not gotten much wear time so far.
The cut of the Arado seems to be rather generous. Wearing just a T-Shirt I still had plenty of room in it and even with my thick Super-Dry hooded sweatshirt I could wear it comfortably.
Sadly I did not have my camera with me, so I only have a crappy i-Phone photo so far. There wasn't much time to take pictures anyways since whe met with 30 people to smoke cigars and have a good time. Another friend of mine made 2 or 3 pictures with a better camera, but he still has to send those to me.
Here is the one I have so far. As soon as the other pictures are in my mailbox I'll post them as well.
Now I only need an idea how I can convince my wive, that I'll need another leather jacket for 800,00 € in the not so distant future. With the A2 30-1711-P just being ordered and our second child on the way I fear she will not be to understanding about this projekt. I might also try to talk my friend into lending me that jacket to take some better pictures of the jacket as a whole and all its details, if there is anybody interested in it.
