RRL leather jacket bought on eBay — authenticity check and cuff tab placement question

[nagaiyimaqi]

Hi everyone,


I recently picked up this RRL leather jacket on eBay and wanted to get some opinions from people who know RRL well.


The jacket was sold as authentic RRL. The seller disclosed before purchase that the care label had been removed, so I was aware of that part. The photos of the jacket on the carpet are the actual jacket I received.


After receiving it, I noticed one detail that made me curious: the cuff tab / cuff button placement seems higher up from the sleeve opening compared with some official or reference photos I found online.


At first I wondered if the sleeves had been altered or if something was off. However, both sleeves are symmetrical, and the construction around the cuffs looks consistent to me. I contacted the seller, and he explained that the photos I was comparing with may be from a slightly different season or production run. He also sent me another image which he said was the official RRL picture for this exact article, and in that image the cuff tab placement does look much closer to the jacket I received.


So now I’m trying to understand whether this kind of detail variation is normal for RRL, especially on leather jackets or seasonal production runs.


I’m not here to accuse the seller. I’m just trying to learn more and get a second opinion from people with more experience. Based on the photos, does this jacket look authentic to you? Have you seen RRL pieces where the same or very similar article has small differences in details such as cuff tab placement, buttons, labels, or production details?


Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[jacketjunkie]

I just don't see why anyone would go to these lengths to fake this particular RRL item.. sure, there are RRL fakes out there, but of their Polos, not of a tiny niche small production item such as an probably entirely overlooked and rarely bought car coat.. no RRL expert by any means, but I'd put my money on it is real.

 

[l0fielectronic]

You would get the best advice on this posting on the 'The Official RRL Thread' over on Styleforum.net, those guys have the best knowledge on genuine and fake RRL and also which items are known to be regularly faked.

While there are indeed some fake jackets and shirts from RRL there are often small changes between retail items and photos from the RRL lookbooks and website, often due to them using photos of pre-production samples.

Your jacket actually matches the promo photo, with no chest seam and the button placement, rather than the final retail one which had a chest seam. Makes me wonder if this is perhaps an early sample jacket, which might also explain missing tags. ...Or it could indeed be from an earlier season as they say. To me It looks nicer than the jacket sold with the chest seam and looks high quality, I would guess genuine but the RRL collectors in that thread would know best.

 

[RossRYoung]

Is the seller 0olivewho0? If so, very good chance it’s fake

 

[nagaiyimaqi]

You would get the best advice on this posting on the 'The Official RRL Thread' over on Styleforum.net, those guys have the best knowledge on genuine and fake RRL and also which items are known to be regularly faked.

While there are indeed some fake jackets and shirts from RRL there are often small changes between retail items and photos from the RRL lookbooks and website, often due to them using photos of pre-production samples.

Your jacket actually matches the promo photo, with no chest seam and the button placement, rather than the final retail one which had a chest seam. Makes me wonder if this is perhaps an early sample jacket, which might also explain missing tags. ...Or it could indeed be from an earlier season as they say. To me It looks nicer than the jacket sold with the chest seam and looks high quality, I would guess genuine but the RRL collectors in that thread would know best.

Thanks a lot, that actually makes sense. The part that confused me most was that my jacket matches the promo image more than the final retail photos I found. I’ll try posting it in the Official RRL Thread on Styleforum and see what the collectors there think.