Leather on Vintage Jackets question

jos198 said:

Hi All,

I bought a Leather jacket on ebay made by Fidelity that was from the 70's. The fit was nice but the leather felt like...i don't know what the word is, it wasn't dried out, just had a plastic feel to it. Is this normal for vintage jackets? Or is it just the type of leather used. The seller said it was horsehide, but i had an Aero Highwayman in FQHH and the feel wasn't even close.

Thanks

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jos198 said:

Hi All,

I bought a Leather jacket on ebay made by Fidelity that was from the 70's. The fit was nice but the leather felt like...i don't know what the word is, it wasn't dried out, just had a plastic feel to it. Is this normal for vintage jackets? Or is it just the type of leather used. The seller said it was horsehide, but i had an Aero Highwayman in FQHH and the feel wasn't even close.

Thanks

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Monitor said:

It is perfectly normal, yeah. It's not an easy job to find two older jackets from the same maker that look and feel exactly the same - They often don't feel even remotely similar. What @Seb Lucas said, leather can be all sorts of ways. Some jackets are made from leather that you couldn't be convinced isn't vinly, the others feel almost alive.

This has nothing to do with the animal the hide belonged to.The fact that it doesn't feels or looks nothing like another horshide jacket is also completely normal. Thing is, nobody can really even tell the two hides apart.

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Carlos840 said:

What do you mean by "made by fidelity"? i thought the "vanson associates" was the regular Vanson label used in 78-79.

Leathers a different.
They can go from a pretty thin waxy topcoat like CXL to a thick almost latex coating like some old Schott or modern Lost worlds.
It doesn't tell you much about the quality of the leather just different tanning and different styles of leathers.

I have two Vansons, both are competition weight, the one on the left is from 2008, it has a super thick shiny black top coat, almsot like plastic...
The one on the right is from 2016, it has a thinner almost matte grey topcoat, technically both are great leather, both were sold as the same grade of leather, but they are very different!

Full review of both:
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/vanson-chp-2.95458/

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jos198 said:

Thanks for the reply. I bought the fidelity jacket, I'm thinking of buying the Vanson one. Do you have any experience with the Vanson and associates jacket?

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jos198 said:

Thanks. I just want to avoid purchasing another jacket that has the vinyl feel. Was just worried that older jackets normally take on that feel.

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