Leather Jackets: Post Pictures of the Best You've Seen/Owned?

[mmmargeologist]

SHOULDN’T HAVE SLEPT!

 

[LA Guy]

The thread where dudes want to keep their badass leather jacket sleeves uncreased and their shearling pile hella tidy

I’ve never understood that. One of the more “I’m so embarrassed for you” moments in my life happened in a nice Italian restaurant in Pasadena. The waitress, as she walked back to the kitchen, spilled a glass of wine on some dude’s leather jacket, and he physically flinched, yelped, and then angrily asked for a rag. He spent the next fifteen minutes dabbing his jacket and telling everyone that it was brand new and a thousand dollars ( expensive back in 2000 or so.)

I dunno. Leather jackets that look too nice and clean just look a bit awkward to me.

 

[Patek]

whoa tell me how you really feel? You do sound as badass as ponyhair panels on a horse leather jacket !

I hope you realize the extreme irony of your comment in the thread that may be the biggest echo chamber in all of SF

I love you guys. Your stuff is a little pricey but I'm glad you are active on this forum.

I don't have the style to pull off half the stuff you sell--especially from some of the Japanese designers. My wife would look at me like I joined a cult if I came down one morning in Kapital from head to toe.

 

[Patek]

I’ve never understood that. One of the more “I’m so embarrassed for you” moments in my life happened in a nice Italian restaurant in Pasadena. The waitress, as she walked back to the kitchen, spilled a glass of wine on some dude’s leather jacket, and he physically flinched, yelped, and then angrily asked for a rag. He spent the next fifteen minutes dabbing his jacket and telling everyone that it was brand new and a thousand dollars ( expensive back in 2000 or so.)

I dunno. Leather jackets that look too nice and clean just look a bit awkward to me.

That happened to me once. I had a RL suede jacket brand new on the first outing and grease got spilled on it at a restaurant. I now just wear HH that I can beat up.

 

[LA Guy]

That happened to me once. I had a RL suede jacket brand new on the first outing and grease got spilled on it at a restaurant. I now just wear HH that I can beat up.

I wear black roughout a lot (in the form of a Joe McCoy type 3 and a Schott x 3sixteen double Rider) and the more matted they become, the more comfortable and just sorta me they are. If something spills on it, from the two full boxes of pastries I dropped on the Schott two Pitti Uomos running (scootering on cobblestone while carrying a box of sfolgia is rough) to oil to so much coffee, I just wipe it off, or dab it in the case of pastry cream, and go on with my day. They have pretty much evened out by now, to a nice matte throughout.

Of course, heavy horse and steer hide is even easier maintenance.

 

[LA Guy]

I love you guys. Your stuff is a little pricey but I'm glad you are active on this forum.

I don't have the style to pull off half the stuff you sell--especially from some of the Japanese designers. My wife would look at me like I joined a cult if I came down one morning in Kapital from head to toe.

Head to toe anything often looks strange outside look books. I did this with kapital once, and maybe I just picked the wrong pieces, because instead of looking cool like the old Gentry New York model, I looked like a bag of rags with a Dr. Seuss hat.

tldr: the model did it better.

 

[bry2000]

Jeez, I am the type that will check multiple weather reports before wearing leather or suede outerwear.

 

[mmmargeologist]

Gentlemen, NMWA doesn’t stock Kapital

 

[Patek]

Gentlemen, NMWA doesn’t stock Kapital

My bad, I confused them with Kaptain Sunshine.

 

[kindofyoung]

Cow hair panels?

I wish I could have brought my Gaultier with me to New York when I met you guys.
After all, why stop at panels when you can make the whole jacket out of cow hair

 

[scurvyfreedman]

SHOULDN’T HAVE SLEPT!

I didn't even know it existed as a MTO until I saw the tan suede version in stock. Then, I did my research and boom, missed out. I'll wait for next year. This winter will likely just be stuck in the house anyway.

 

[gdl203]

I wish I could have brought my Gaultier with me to New York when I met you guys.
After all, why stop at panels when you can make the whole jacket out of cow hair
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That's actually really cool.

 

[Patek]

Received the FCL James today.

It is definitely trim.

Here are some quick bathroom fit pics.

 

[hoodog]

Received the FCL James today.

It is definitely trim.

Here are some quick bathroom fit pics.

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Agreed, a bit trim. But most important, does it feel right when worn? Or too tight?

 

[Patek]

Agreed, a bit trim. But most important, does it feel right when worn? Or too tight?

This jacket has zero break-in so I'm sure there will be some molding once I start wearing it. I can only compare it to my Himel Kensington which which was much tighter than this but it broke in and fits me like a shirt now. Definitely not an overcoat or layering piece.