What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

[Acererak]

Another crazy watch person here just about to go into a meeting Halios Laguna and ELMC Californian

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I had a Laguna once.


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[navetsea]

this was not today, it was at my aunt's place the other day

this is today. notice the jacket+ pants color match with the pebbles on the ground

 

[Flightengineer]

this was not today, it was at my aunt's place the other day

this is today. notice the jacket+ pants color match with the pebbles on the ground

Nice jacket, like your other ones that you show here, but all the time I want to ask - how do you manage to wear leather jackets in your climate?
I was once in Jakarta in the spring - very hot and humid. Or to the East - more cold?

 

[navetsea]

thanks, I live in higher elevation hilly part of east java although closer to sun it is not as warm since the wind is fresher and quite breezy, as long as I stay under some shade/ roof above me or moving fast enough to generate enough wind I can wear jacket all year round, all my jackets are lined with simple thin cotton, and has no sealing knits, so wind can get into the jacket and my own body heat can escape easily, I still believe that is the biggest factor, since I never plan these jacket to give me any warmth, leather shell itself is pretty good at blocking sun compared to fabric, whenever I stopped at traffic light on motorcycle my thigh under my jeans burn more than my arms under leather jacket from the sun, and when I wear denim jacket I also sweat through it, so I think leather is a better heat insulator from direct sun exposure.

 

[Seb Lucas]

navetsea I think you just have a thing for leather - I bet you don't see anyone else wearing leather there every day like you do. I generally find that a dense cotton is all I need in the sun and, as well as blocking the UV light, it breathes in a way that leather cannot. The sweat (I don't sweat much) also helps to cool me an it evaporates from cotton very quickly.

 

[navetsea]

no leather jacket is not in fashion here, most leather looking jackets here are mostly pleather worn on the bike, fashionable young people wear hoodies, denim jacket, nylon bomber jackets, flannel shirts, graphic t-shirts with dry unwashed jeans or joggers... so wearing leather jacket and camo pants and somekind of turtleneck won't win me any compliments in fashion sense either, But if you think I force myself to wear those despite the climate, dude have you seen me profusely sweating in any of the photos?

 

[Technonut]

Actually caught a few hours of mid-40's F weather this morning.... Today, I'm wearing yet another Morgan Productions horsehide A-2. This one is a recent replacement for one I sorely regretted selling some time back.

These A-2's were a collaboration in the mid-1990's between the late Col. Robert K. Morgan (Pilot of the 'Memphis Belle'), his widow Linda Morgan, and the large Japanese army-war surplus company, Nakata Shoten. The 'Morgan Memphis Belle' A-2 is popular in Japan as a period-patterned Mid-level ($440.00 USD) A-2, currently available in both cow and horsehide. The HH is a dark seal brown, appears to be chrome-tanned, comfortable to wear when new, and at the upper limits of thickness for a 'proper' A-2.

The tagged size 44 gives me exactly the wartime cut and look I love in an A-2 for my 44" chest. The sleeves on both this, and the other one I had are a bit long. I have a new set of better quality knits on-hand, and will have the sleeves bobbed when installed....

Hard to see the horsehide's grain in the above pics.. Here's a couple:

 

[ton312]

Aero (not LVC version) Hippie jacket. Gave it to the girlfriend but taking it on a field trip. Can only wear it for limited bouts-arm blood circulation gets about cut off.
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That's aged tan steerhide. Man I love that color. I wish Aero could get that back.

 

[Jeremiah]

This monarch.

 

[Corky Corcovado]

 

[Hh121]

Received my new US AUTHENTIC A2 today, absolutely beyond my expectation, I sized down for better fit, and the beautiful russet horsehide is almost identical to my Lost Worlds test.

 

[ton312]

Received my new US AUTHENTIC A2 today, absolutely beyond my expectation, I sized down for better fit, and the beautiful russet horsehide is almost identical to my Lost Worlds test.

Looks good man! Weight the same too?

 

[Jeremiah]

Looks nice. And the sleeves have room to develop creases without making sleeves too short in the end.

 

[Hh121]

Looks good man! Weight the same too?

LOL!! It's 4.6lbs, certainly a heavy jacket in A2 realm.

 

[ProteinNerd]

@Hh121 that’s one of the few A2’s I’ve seen that I’ve liked.....nice fit!

 

[ton312]

LOL!! It's 4.6lbs, certainly a heavy jacket in A2 realm.

You nailed it man. I'm not an aviation jacket enthusiast but I'd count this amongst those I've seen posted here that look really good. Fit is spot on, despite the extremely light weight hide.
I can relate tho. Sometimes you need to go below 5lbs. Even if it makes you feel dirty.

 

[Hh121]

You nailed it man. I'm not an aviation jacket enthusiast but I'd count this amongst those I've seen posted here that look really good. Fit is spot on, despite the extremely light weight hide.
I can relate tho. Sometimes you need to go below 5lbs. Even if it makes you feel dirty.

Thanks, Ton, I will have even lighter weight 3lbs a2 coming tomorrow, but I am not worry about it, the 5oz horsehide from Johnson will coming at this fall to balance things out, 9 lbs at least.

 

[ton312]

Thanks, Ton, I will have even lighter weight 3lbs a2 coming tomorrow, but I am not worry about it, the 5oz horsehide from Johnson will coming at this fall to balance things out, 9 lbs at least.

I can't wait to see the JL. Is this the beast providing the hide?

 

[Hh121]

I can't wait to see the JL. Is this the beast providing the hide?
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That would be your Legendary j106, mine is this one, Alan said it's Horween CXL 8oz horsehide with water repellent.

 

[Hh121]

By the way, I received the sample of new competition weight cowhide Mike send to me, as you can see, there is nothing similar with what we had before.
The bigger one is the leather already broken in while small one still new.