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Agree completely, I started with the bootlegger and now Have a D pocket on order and would love to have a CHP style jacket (straight zip though)
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Agree completely, I started with the bootlegger and now Have a D pocket on order and would love to have a CHP style jacket (straight zip though)
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Don’t hold yourself back like that @Jin431. You should have both a straight zip and a cross zip CHP. Perhaps even two of each!
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I think I first got the bug for a stripped down cross zip after seeing the Schott P213. I didn’t like the leather or the cut, but liked the style so from there I went:
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Oh man that would be so cool to have for sure. I've noticed you have it in both styles and I always like those jackets! might as well go for the whole treatment ala @El Marro.
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The first two of the three would be easy choices for me:
1. 1930s-1940s style cross zip sports jackets
2. 1930s-1940s half belt
3 is a bit harder. My Freewheelers Mulholland is not a half belt. It's an Italian collar, straight zip, police/motorcycle jacket. It's not even easy to classify. If I could group it with the half belt and just call that category "collared, straight zip jacket with side adjusters" or something like that then I would do that. If I could do that, then the third category would be trucker jackets surprisingly just because I love my new FW so much.
1. 1930s-1940s style cross zip sports jackets
2. 1930s-1940s half belt
3 is a bit harder. My Freewheelers Mulholland is not a half belt. It's an Italian collar, straight zip, police/motorcycle jacket. It's not even easy to classify. If I could group it with the half belt and just call that category "collared, straight zip jacket with side adjusters" or something like that then I would do that. If I could do that, then the third category would be trucker jackets surprisingly just because I love my new FW so much.
That was literally my exact path...
Like @Hobbes1 i thought cross zips were a bit much, i got a bootlegger, enjoyed it, decided i was ready for more, got a Vanson CHP 2, and it all went south from there.
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That would do me, all the rest are just for pleasure.
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That would do me, all the rest are just for pleasure.
That would be IIRC:If my house cought fire right now and i could only save three jackets it would be:
I'm not sure i would survive the broken heart i would get from seeing the rest of them burn to ashes...
Edit: just re read the Op and realized you are asking about styles, not specific jackets, personally, i am all in on the Cross zip, they are my favourite and i wear them 90% of the time.
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Where is the Himel Chevalier? :O
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which half belt and cafe racer are those?
I did also think that a full on cross-zip was too much initially. But going back to the LW J24 page every so often taught me that there are very tastefully made full on cross-zips that work really well. I would have gone for it directly, but the moose Trojan happened first.
In short, spend some time looking at cool cross-zips and you will realise you can easily wear them
If you think about, it the Chevalier is essentially a Leathertogs repro... so I would suspect you would want to maximise variety in such a situation?
Edit: typos
The Half-belt is a GW Imperial and the CR is a Kehoe.
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It was mine as well. I hadn’t thought of it for a while but I was pretty self-conscious the first few times I went outside in the Vanson. Fast forward a couple years and now the cross zip is just like any other jacket style to me.
Honestly, i rarely wear it.
Brown is really not my colour to start with, and on top of that the Himel really doesn't have the "special" factor that the other three i posted have.
Grayland and I both mentioned longer, car coat jackets.
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SB Pacific in black deerskin is one of my favourites
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