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I can confirm that no skiving was done on my unlined Aero trucker jacket and all the seams came out very neat.
Just in case you haven't seen it-It may have been posted already
you get a hug, and a lunch date at the end...so...
A hug, lunch and your hide tanned tooyou get a hug, and a lunch date at the end...so...
Japanese jackets are often both skived and glued- you get a tight, flat seam that way.I'm not the expert here but that is done in shoemaking and look at how long leather shoes and boots last and they get more abuse than any leather jacket will ever receive.
Just because a maker doesn't do it doesn't mean it's a wrong method of doing it.
Yeah but:"For me, they're meant to be thrown around... Worn everywhere. Something that you should be wearing. You should live in it."
"Most beautiful thing to me on a leather jacket is when I see someone wearing one is the creases in the arms..."
"Every experience you've had in that jacket... Something evolves in that material."
"It's like modern day armor... 'cause it gives you this confidence that you really don't get from any other piece of clothing."
I'm kind of in love here. That... intense expression doesn't help, either.
But from the things she says, she really knows what she's talking about and more importantly, she knows what people want and expect from a leather jacket, even if they don't know it themselves.
Plus, seems that the company offers a full on bespoke service and then there's that no two jackets alike deal... I don't know. $5K is a lot of money but ever since it became okay to pay $2500+ for an OTR, I don't see why this would be that much obscene.
If I was extremely rich, I'd get at least one of their jackets. But in any case, I wish her and her business all the luck in the world. She's truly passionate about leather jackets and she actually gets them. What's not to love or at least like?
Yeah but:
HAHAHA...I knew you would say that. I admire her for her passion toward the craft. I would love to visit her shop in my 3.0 Bootlegger or former LW j-23 and kindly ask her to "please, impress me"...Lol yeah okay, you have a point there.
...the truckers aren't that bad tho.
This is simply amazing prose! I don’t know if you write, either for fun or to make a living, but you have the gift.She'd stare you down. Right tf down. And you know it. You'd go in there: 'Hey, I saw the video and, yes, but Aero/LW/Eastman blah, blah, blah' and there be an intense silence. She's just look at you, and wouldn't blink. You'd have the urge to protect your upper body, maybe half-heartedly scratch your left elbow with your right hand, and she'd just not break the stare. You wouldn't even hear the reply, the stare would be so steady. Finally, you'd start to reply, like some sad, squeaky-voiced clown. 'Do you even skive?' she'd ask, genuinely amazed. And you'd be lost. You'd have lost.