/fa/ - Fashion

>>14638652
>chemically aged leather.

There's your problem. You can't un-age leather. Also, consider that companies sell 'pre-distressed' leather jackets so that they don't have to use premium skins that are flawless for the panels. Instead of throwing out skins that have scratches, uneven grain, etc., they'll pre-distress it so that the whole thing looks like shit instead of a few panels.

Your pic also suggests a genuine impossibility; the jacket on the right looks like horsehide, whereas the one on the left looks like cow. The two have different grains, which can be polished to different degrees.

For instance, lambskin has a very tiny grain compared with ostrich or even goat leather, so you can polish lambskin to look smooth as silk, but no matter what you do to goat leather, it'll always look like goat.

Sorry Anon, there's nothing you can do. Return the jacket, and get a Schott, Aero, Vanson, or something else. They all have armor options.

Distressed leather is great for fashion, but not for riding use. Let your travels produce the distressing.

>Pic is predistressed lambskin, with all the flaws.

>>13671709

Thanks. A few things to keep in mind.

1) Fashion leather jackets in the sleeves should end at the first knuckle of your thumb. Anything higher looks fashionisti. Since the jacket doesn't have sleeve gussets at the shoulders, if you bend your elbow or raise your arm the sleeve will ride up by about an inch or two. If you bought this jacket with the intention of riding, you'd want it to have an extra inch, to end at the first knuckle of your middle finger. No matter what, the sleeves will be difficult to tailor if you must because of the zippers...so beware, and measure accordingly.

2) New Zealand Lamb is fine, you have nothing to worry about. That said, this style of jacket (when made for riding) is usually made out of cow or horse, which is cut thicker and will drape and hang heavier. Lamb is a beautiful skin, but it's very flexible and light which means that the jacket will not look necessarily substantial (hence the exorbitant number of zippers to make up for it). The perception of this jacket when worn will be as a fashion piece, not as an example of serious riding equipment. Plan your fashion accordingly.

Maybe phone them before ordering if you can, just to talk a few things over with them (sizing, etc.). A 4$ phone call long distance may be worth avoiding a 450$ mistake...

Good luck Anon...post pics when you get it! It's a style I love but cannot wear.

>>13559885
This topic deserves more discussion, and at the risk of hijacking the thread for a moment while so many are asleep, I have some ideas.
1) the meaning of a flag vs. the meaning of words in a script that is not European.
There's a company, I can't remember which one, which was insanely popular when I lived in the UK where they had the German flag colours on a patch on the left shoulder, in the same place. I'm sure someone here knows what I'm talking about...they're green/brownish military style jackets with buttons instead of zips. Anyway, you saw at least 3 of them on the way to work in the morning on the tube. I can't honestly believe all of these people were German (or potentially Belgian, given the colour combo), and I know a few who wore the jacket and were definitely British. They didn't care...the flag was a symbol of the brand or origin of the jacket, not a political allegiance or statement. With Japanese script on clothing, or arabic, or cyrrilic, or anything that is not of the alphabet (though Greek would fall into this category as well), I think it's the same effect, or at least equal. It's seen as a statement of where the product came from, not that you necessarily support the politics of the origin. Like wearing a bruce-lee t-shirt...you might like the guy, or wear it for irony, but it's unlikely you can fight as well as he can.

2) lettering as an aesthetic symbol, devoid of meaning outside of the shapes and colours.
This is interesting to me....If someone can read Japanese, then seeing Japanese script on something is not a symbol or random collection of strokes. It has meaning (assuming that it's not gibberish). I cannot read Arabic, so to me it's beautiful writing, but nothing more. But obviously to someone who reads Arabic, there's words and meaning behind the words. Tattoos in script have this problem, don't they?

I'm glad they did the patch in colour, as the red really brings out the red details of the jacket, and the blue pops out really nicely as the only hard contrast.

The red sections are 'antiqued' along the edges, where one would 'expect' wear. This is the only thing that one could complain about the antiquing looking slightly fake. For me, I don't care...I've hand-distressed jackets before, so my eyes will see when it's real and when it's not...it's rather obvious. But to the casual person on the street, the colour essentially looks opposite-faded...where instead of a colour simply losing its colour and going towards the white spectrum, this is doing the opposite...going towards the black spectrum. Either way, as a complete package, it looks fantastic in life, and in all lighting situations.

The red is very dark, almost purple sometimes. In the evening, or at night, the red doesn't register at all, so unless you're wearing it in direct sunlight or some place that is very well lit, it's not going to even come close to the fluorescent red that we see so often on the less refined versions of this design that exist online (particularly from the Chinese).

Incidentally, every edge is finished beautifully, no problems with stitching or anything else like that. I haven't found a flaw on the jacket...and for a jacket this large and complex, that's definitely saying something for Soul Revolver's Italian factory.