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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

Salmosalar

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CombatWombat

Familiar Face
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My 50's Swedish goatskin dispatch rider coat, which came the day after I broke my bloody arm (hence the non-wear pictures).
It's utterly amazing on me (I usually have to get "custom" in the arms since I'm built like a orangutan)

70 year old goatskin means it's finally got character to the leather and the way it buttons up from either side isn't something I've seen before.
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torfjord

Call Me a Cab
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My 50's Swedish goatskin dispatch rider coat, which came the day after I broke my bloody arm (hence the non-wear pictures).
It's utterly amazing on me (I usually have to get "custom" in the arms since I'm built like a orangutan)

70 year old goatskin means it's finally got character to the leather and the way it buttons up from either side isn't something I've seen before.
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Awesome jacket. I have one in brown. Although this is not a dispatch riders jacket. These were called brewers tailcoat and were used as workwear in breweries originally but spread to a lot of other industries early to mid 1900s. Even used as protective gear by the Swedish post office in the 1950s.
 
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There are jackets that are definitive keepers. This Bates is a keeper for me. I always thought that it is black, but on this pic it looks like a very, very dark green. Or are my eyes playing tricks on me? What do you guys think?

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It’s black but I can see dark forest green too. It’s either there or there by power if suggestion. Either way a killer Bates!
 

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