Pyritez
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Got this used Jeffrey Banks M-422/G1 on Ebay for $35 and $5 shipping, lol. Sweet!
Looks to be cowhide...won't know for sure until it arrives next week.
Got a (purportedly) goatskin seal brown w/viscose lining Pakistani A-2 variant earlier this month new on Amazon for $85 + tax & shipping ($100 total). It looks to be a returned item... & likely a factory second to begin with as the dying was not bad but slightly uneven in spots...but regardless still a very nice leather jacket. Still breaking it in via wearing it...& still deciding whether its actually sheep or goat, as the prominate goat grain pebbling seen elsewhere in 'full grain' hide is not there...very small/slight pebbling instead. It could be a 'top grain' goatskin with the 1st layer removed or sanded...or sheepskin leather. Either way is fine, lol. Very soft 1mm-1.5mm leather regardless. Nice.
(Pakistan is putting out some nice stuff these days in leather jackets, as apparently they have a huge domestic leather industry...& apparently supplied the US military with goatskins previously for leather jackets at various times.)
Also found a vintage real mouton collar (& !soft!) on Etsy for $20, installed buttons on the jacket & new elastic button loops on the mouton...& presto!!! An A2 with a nice removeable mouton collar...for $120 total out-the-door. The mouton will fit on the Jeffrey Banks jacket as well (pictured)...with the same 3-button inside collar layout.
The point here is...you can score some nice leather flight jackets for dirt cheap if you look around a bit & do some homework...& don't mind maybe also doing a few things yourself to 'restore' them to 'like factory new', lol. (Amazon sells inexpensive leather sewing kits & assorted leather treatments/conditioners.)
While this won't appease many of the purists hereabouts who apparently prefer to spend their $$$ on custom tailored domestic labor rates & whatnot, lol, we have no such compunctions for scoring nice leather flight jacket representations for cheap & off the rack. (We'll spend the savings on liquor instead, lol.)
Lots of good information on this site regarding leather jackets & leathers, construction, maintenance, etc., so thanks for that.
Looks to be cowhide...won't know for sure until it arrives next week.
Got a (purportedly) goatskin seal brown w/viscose lining Pakistani A-2 variant earlier this month new on Amazon for $85 + tax & shipping ($100 total). It looks to be a returned item... & likely a factory second to begin with as the dying was not bad but slightly uneven in spots...but regardless still a very nice leather jacket. Still breaking it in via wearing it...& still deciding whether its actually sheep or goat, as the prominate goat grain pebbling seen elsewhere in 'full grain' hide is not there...very small/slight pebbling instead. It could be a 'top grain' goatskin with the 1st layer removed or sanded...or sheepskin leather. Either way is fine, lol. Very soft 1mm-1.5mm leather regardless. Nice.
(Pakistan is putting out some nice stuff these days in leather jackets, as apparently they have a huge domestic leather industry...& apparently supplied the US military with goatskins previously for leather jackets at various times.)
Also found a vintage real mouton collar (& !soft!) on Etsy for $20, installed buttons on the jacket & new elastic button loops on the mouton...& presto!!! An A2 with a nice removeable mouton collar...for $120 total out-the-door. The mouton will fit on the Jeffrey Banks jacket as well (pictured)...with the same 3-button inside collar layout.
The point here is...you can score some nice leather flight jackets for dirt cheap if you look around a bit & do some homework...& don't mind maybe also doing a few things yourself to 'restore' them to 'like factory new', lol. (Amazon sells inexpensive leather sewing kits & assorted leather treatments/conditioners.)
While this won't appease many of the purists hereabouts who apparently prefer to spend their $$$ on custom tailored domestic labor rates & whatnot, lol, we have no such compunctions for scoring nice leather flight jacket representations for cheap & off the rack. (We'll spend the savings on liquor instead, lol.)
Lots of good information on this site regarding leather jackets & leathers, construction, maintenance, etc., so thanks for that.
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