I was walking in NYC, and I saw someone with a similar looking jacket. I asked him if he did it himself, and he explained that it took him 2 years while his band was driving in a van around the country. It was really cool to see a homemade one in-person and speak with the creator.
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Very nice! Lost Worlds?
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I did not know they offered this design. It is a new one, right? Not a variation of another pattern?
I ask since I cannot see it on their website.
I ask since I cannot see it on their website.
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That's what I expected. Thanks and congrats on yet another great piece.
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Nice. Did you deliberately chose a three piece sleeve (Instead of the two piece original)?
No, to be honest i had not paid attention to that.
Its not really the kind of detail that is super important to me, i just let them do their thing.
Also, there is always unknown with Stuart, he will do what he thinks is best, whether you like it or not.
For example i had sourced and shipped him some really nice Corozo cats eyes buttons, but i could tell he didn't like them, i told him that they where period correct, that Corozo was very common at that time beofre bakelite and plastic replaced it. He was just not into them.
When he sent me the pics his only comment was: " i sourced some genuine mother-of-pearl cats eye period buttons that are big upgrade over the current plastics."
He just couldn't bring himself to use the Corozo ones that he hates so much, no matter how i feel about them and the fact i am not a fan of the shiny mother of pearl.
It's the Stuart way, he knows what he wants.
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@Carlos840
FL (not mine) next to LW
Personally I like the Shinki a lot better than the somewhat dull LW horsehide (hardly any color depth).
What I really dislike about the FL is the sharp / square shoulder.
Overall the FL looks more feminine and the LW more 'manly'
FL (not mine) next to LW
Personally I like the Shinki a lot better than the somewhat dull LW horsehide (hardly any color depth).
What I really dislike about the FL is the sharp / square shoulder.
Overall the FL looks more feminine and the LW more 'manly'
Stu just sent me a closeup of the buttons:
I don't think comparing the leathers like that is fair, the LW is pictured under bad artificial lightning and the Field next to a nice sunny window...
Also, i am going to ride in that jacket, and i would not ride in a shinki jacket, it's just no tough enough...
I'll post "better" pics when i get it, i just sent Stu a shipping label, shoudl be here next week.
Wow, Congratulations Carlos! I would love to see this one side by side with @Canuck Panda’s Bill Kelso version in a review.
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That looks amazing! What colour where the corzo buttons you sent?
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Studs: the cowbell of the leather jacket world.
It's nice to see something organic, somebody really make a jacket their own. Not that production line versions can't look great too, but they rather lose their effect when you see more than one of them together. Mass-produced uniqueness.... I'll never forget looking in the window of, I think it was Primark on Oxford Street a few years ago. There on a rail were a dozen cross-zip style jackets, each and every one with an identical, faux-paint, screen-printed legend on the back which read "Be Individual". To this day I sorely regret not having a camera on me, it was so comical. I'd love to think it was an ironic comment on the nature of consumerism (same as all of those commercially printed t-shirts with Che Guevara or an anarchy symbol on them), but I suspect that would be overly optimistic.
There is that. Fair enough, really, as long as the buyer knows that going in. Aero and many others don't like to do certain things. I can well understand taking that line. It's not as if they're cooking a steak for the buyer (I have a pathological hatred of pretentious eateries that refuse to actually cook meat properly, making up excuses like "it ruins the flavour" and other such rot for only serving stuff half raw); any jacket that goes out the door with their name on it will be seen as representative of what they do, so they want to be happy with it.
You bet the Lost Worlds is manly! They're the manliest manly jackets around, and we forum ladies better understand that!
Buttons are an interesting point of difference. I think I like the bright buttons on the LW better than the tonal black, as they catch the light the way I'd expect chrome or brass would. Works well with the zips for me. Actually I think jean style stud-buttons would look good on this design too, though I'm not familiar enough with the pattern to know if there was any such thing ever used on the originals. Nice back to the design.
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Does it mater what Stu thinks? IMO, Corozo or Pearl. It is just the look. It is nothing structural or has to do with practicality or durability. Stu as designer is a scary thought. It is like a structural engineer who tries to convince the client that he can be the architect as well.
Just noticed one of the originals that i sent to stu has three piece sleeves too...
He said it was a bit a nightmare to do cause every peters you see pictured is different.
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Peter's Galore! Let's not forget the Bison JL one that RedDevil has - A Peters jacket made in San Fran about a hundred years later...
It's really hard to tell how these jackets will sit on a body. They were suppose to be short like a C2 Vanson right? But the half belt design and the side corsets gives the illusion of a much longer jacket.
I was hoping for this below which I think the LW has capture the look best, with the extra zipper strip and higher pockets.
But I think I am getting this below which is more FW / FL design up front, with lower pockets making the jacket look longer.
The wait for package is the worst.
It's really hard to tell how these jackets will sit on a body. They were suppose to be short like a C2 Vanson right? But the half belt design and the side corsets gives the illusion of a much longer jacket.
I was hoping for this below which I think the LW has capture the look best, with the extra zipper strip and higher pockets.
But I think I am getting this below which is more FW / FL design up front, with lower pockets making the jacket look longer.
The wait for package is the worst.
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