What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

[Al 916]

My last day in Toronto and convinced my friend to take a pic with her fancy phone camera. Perfecto paired with Red Wings.

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Looking good!

 

[Bennarion]

My last day in Toronto and convinced my friend to take a pic with her fancy phone camera. Perfecto paired with Red Wings.

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You look cool

 

[Monte.C]

A leather jacket of this type, Magnoli U-boat, LW Peacoat, etc. carries something inherently sinister in its appearance that can't be separated from the jacket. I enjoy wearing mine but I try not to lose site of the fact that the jacket speaks to those around even when I don't.

I've made an effort to tone that down a hair.

Sometimes.

I love that about it. It's a real head-turner, in subtle ways. They say that the clothes don't make the man, but someone here said recently that the clothes are a reflection of the man's character. I love the kinds of attention this gets, the aura it gives off. It's just so much fun. Being the boss, so to speak.

 

[3.14nche]

Schott yesterday off to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor

 

[Imuricecreamman]

2 jacket day

 

[hodgeko]

50s LW Foster G-1. Auditioning some stuff in my closet for a trip I'm taking to Spain soon. I don't think this one will be the winner though because it's not very warm! Also, why does it sometimes insert pics here, and other times attach them? Can't figure out how it decides.

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[Boyo]

^ Looks like a winner to me…I love the G-1, especially an original

 

[Bennarion]

50s LW Foster G-1. Auditioning some stuff in my closet for a trip I'm taking to Spain soon. I don't think this one will be the winner though because it's not very warm! Also, why does it sometimes insert pics here, and other times attach them? Can't figure out how it decides.

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Great jacket. Everything is matched in style

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Aero:

 

[Jonas_g]

Some wool layering today. Dehen 1920 Varsity jacket.

 

[KBlake]

5*

 

[Monte.C]

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Wow that 1st one -
I'm a guy that doesn't really know anything about leather...
What IS that? The leather looks beautiful. I want that jacket.

 

[Herrvallmo]

Aero HB

Cheers all!

 

[Monitor]

Some wool layering today. Dehen 1920 Varsity jacket.
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I wanted to grow mustache like this but best I could do was 11 strands of hair, three of which were gray.

 

[photo2u]

LW Vest and Vanson Perf Gloves for a ride that took me by Toonstone. About 30 miles south of Fredericksburg by Sisterdale. Just a place to stop and rest. Many like it in TX.

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My type of place. The vest is diamonds. Max, you have all the cool vest.

 

[photo2u]

Aero Hooch Hauler
Akubra Boss hat
Pike Brothers salt n pepper vest
Pinion Golden Blood denim
Red Wing blacksmith boots

Beautiful sunny day, outside with kid
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You remind me of Billy the kid. All you need is your horse (motorcycle) and ride with Max in old Tejas.

 

[tmitchell59]

1940s Spiegel Aviator

 

[photo2u]

My profession requires that I maintain a somewhat lower profile than many however, in the context of jacket alterations on something known to be a top drawer product there's at least a minimum explanation due and maybe a fit pic.

Many years ago there was a cook on TV named Graham Kerr. Called himself the Galloping Gourmet. He nearly always wore a sport jacket and as an impressionable young man I was at the time trying to figure out what I liked and how to articulate my sense of what looked right to me. I didn't watch his program w/ any regularity but I did see part of an episode wherein he said he was wearing his favorite sport jacket and the hem of the jacket just barely touched the inside crook his fingers formed if he bent them inward in a U shape with his arm extended straight downward.

For more than 40 years I've measured sport jackets that way and certain other jackets as well, this peacoat among them.

I'm a little more torso than leg and for me that means a little more length in a jacket is better than a little less. I'm 5' 10" and this Lost Worlds leather peacoat is a 46L meant for a tall man with at least a 36" sleeve. The back length from neck to hem is what I wanted and the sleeve length I had shortened by 1.5" to better fit my 18-34/35 frame.

She's heavy and she's loud and I like her a lot. Sorry about the splooge on the mirror. I think Monitor may have brushed his teeth in front of it. The sleeve length though? Nailed it. It had a couple of backing buttons that needed to be replaced as well. Xlnt work. Ninety bucks out the door.

The comment from the leather shop when I went to pick the jacket up?

"Oh man, you can't get leather like this in the US anymore."

I didn't have the heart to tell him that IIRC it was tanned in NY.

Looks like that shirt cuff has been playing in the dirt, too. That one gets retired in 5, 4, 3...


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$95 for the sleeves and button repair? That is good price. Did your repair person also adjust the length?

 

[Trouser Bark]

$95 for the sleeves and button repair? That is good price. Did your repair person also adjust the length?

The length of the jacket? No… that length seems right for my shape which is long arms, long torso, shorter legs. My lineage is not long out of the trees.

 

[Trouser Bark]

I wanted to grow mustache like this but best I could do was 11 strands of hair, three of which were gray.

Many years ago I was trying to grow a mustache and it was coming in slooow. A guy that I worked with was pretty funny and in an open section of the office says “ hey, nice football mustache”!

I told him I had no idea what he was talking about he said “yeah, football. Eleven on each side”!