What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

[Mysteryo]

50’s Californian CHP hh

 

[handymike]

I don’t have a cool Cal, but I am filling out paperwork in a cool room in Cal wearing my Aero:

The arms are beginning to look interesting with this batch of black CXL:

 

[Downunder G Man]

COVID-19 Harley ride north today. Only 2 of us as that's the limit y'see !
Only 8C here when we set off , 20C on the return leg.
Jacket is my only "cross zip" a steerhide Australian made Walden Miller from South Australia.
It was a "promo" jacket from the Australian cinema launch of the movie..
This firm for years made all the Coppers ( Police !) leather jackets in Australia , they get (got ?) a very good name.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" With Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro.
Grainy photos today sorry about that !

 

[Seb Lucas]

COVID-19 Harley ride north today. Only 2 of us as that's the limit y'see !
Only 8C here when we set off , 20C on the return leg.
Jacket is my only "cross zip" a steerhide Australian made Walden Miller from South Australia.
It was a "promo" jacket from the Australian cinema launch of the movie..
This firm for years made all the Copper leather jacket in Australia , they get(got ?) a very good name.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" With Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro.
Grainy photos today sorry about that !

View attachment 224581

View attachment 224582

Hey Down under - I met with the owners of Walden Miller a year ago as I was passing through Adelaide and thought I'd say hi. Small place in an industrial area. They were really nice but getting on in years. I reckon if they had fixed up their website 10 years ago and added a few civi patterns they would have sold a shed load of jackets to punters. I guess their govt contracts paid the rent. I had a police jacket of theirs about 20 years ago but can't remember anything about it. They are one of the last 2 or 3 leather jacket makers in Australia. I remember when Melbourne alone had 5 makers around 30 years ago. None today that I know of.

 

[Downunder G Man]

Yes mate I know the changes in Australian manufacture.
Sinnika Leathers of Osborne park in Perth Western Australia still going.
The last maker in WA. Other forumites have had good dealings with them via my reccomendations.
They used to make the WA Police jackets until a "coupla" years back.
Maybe 20 years ago they made an exact copy of an Eastman Luftwaffe for me from my original 1990 jacket.
They took my original Eastman apart to reline it and copied the pattern.
Since then they have had a variant in their range called ' The Berlin" !
The original Eastman was cotton lined Horsehide that was proving too hot on many WA days.
The remake was a super well done job , but in black goat with very light lining. I still have and wear both jackets to this day.
I was in there just last year having a jacket "rezippered"

Oh and a 75 year old Catholic priest had me off my Harley in 2009 , me skittling down and around the road in My Sinnika "goathide Eastman".
Big swirly scratches on the back. A wash down and a treatment with Kiwi black Kids "Shoe scuff stuff" and she was right mate !
The Harley was "well fugged" to coin a phrase !

https://www.sinikka.com/

 

[Seb Lucas]

Yes mate I know the changes in Australian manufacture.
Sinnika Leathers of Osborne park in Perth Western Australia still going.
The last maker in WA. Other forumites have had good dealings with them via my reccomendations.
They used to make the WA Police jackets until a "coupla" years back.
Maybe 20 years ago they made an exact copy of an Eastman Luftwaffe for me from my original 1990 jacket.
They took my original Eastman apart to reline it and copied the pattern.
Since then they have had a variant in their range called ' The Berlin" !
The original Eastman was cotton lined Horsehide that was proving too hot on many WA days.
The remake was a super well done job , but in black goat with very light lining. I still have and wear both jackets to this day.
I was in there just last year having a jacket "rezippered"

Oh and a 75 year old Catholic priest had me off my Harley in 2009 , me skittling down and around the road in My Sinnika "goathide Eastman".
Big swirly scratches on the back. A wash down and a treatment with Kiwi black Kids "Shoe scuff stuff" and she was right mate !
The Harley was "well fugged" to coin a phrase !

https://www.sinikka.com/

Cool story. I was never able to get goat in Melbourne. You almost never see this hide in Australia. Everything was either cow or lamb. Goat is the perfect hide for Australia.

 

[jonesy86]

This goatskin looks beefy and it's noticeably thicker than most of other goatskins isn't it? Very, I mean Very interesting leather! Nice jacket and cool hat Sir, nothing but perfection!

Thanks @Lebowski, it is an amazing leather. Tough as nails, showing nice grain and creases, yet pretty light weight with the Jacket coming in at just over 3 Lbs.

 

[Downunder G Man]

Cool story. I was never able to get goat in Melbourne. You almost never see this hide in Australia. Everything was either cow or lamb. Goat is the perfect hide for Australia.

Yes Seb I think so myself.
My two most recent (and hopefully the last for a while haha !) are both Simmons Bilt in black goat.
Both brand new out of Tuscumbia Alabama I "kid" you not ( no pun intended !).
Same seller had a batch of jackets Simmons Bilt manufactured in Scotland for "Proconsul LA"
2 excellent jackets and I am EXTREMELY pleased with them.
I had multiple correspondences with Deborah Toohey of Simmons Bilt in Moffat Scotland.
(She has no affiliation with the Toohey's beer brand in Australia I did ask !)

 

[2wheelgrplr]

Indoors today with my Thurston version (longer body) of the Vanson Comet.

 

[zebedee]

Cool story. I was never able to get goat in Melbourne. You almost never see this hide in Australia. Everything was either cow or lamb. Goat is the perfect hide for Australia.

Goat is great for the early part of warmer weathers (I found this in HK especially) and humid temperatures in which horsehide is just too heavy. I've never seen it develop mildew or mould even in summers where the tiling was damp in the apartment most of the day (to be fair, the HH didn't either) until the fans/aircon went on. I've not tried it in really cold winters; it does seem to be a 'warmer' hide than horse and is definitely more flexible, so we'll see.

 

[2wheelgrplr]

Couple more of the Iron Heart. Really nice piece, I've already bookmarked a few different jeans on their site for future acquisition...
View attachment 224096 View attachment 224097

Looks awesome! What size is this? I tried this on at Selfedge NY some years ago, was sooo tempted but didn’t buy it then. Looks like I’ll have to put this back on my to-but list.

 

[zebedee]

COVID-19 Harley ride north today. Only 2 of us as that's the limit y'see !
Only 8C here when we set off , 20C on the return leg.
Jacket is my only "cross zip" a steerhide Australian made Walden Miller from South Australia.
It was a "promo" jacket from the Australian cinema launch of the movie..
This firm for years made all the Coppers ( Police !) leather jackets in Australia , they get (got ?) a very good name.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" With Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro.
Grainy photos today sorry about that !

View attachment 224581

View attachment 224582

"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a ******* from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether."
― Hunter S. Thompson, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'.

 

[Dav]

Highwayman

 

[Trenchfriend]

@Dav
AWESOME tobacco jacket!!

 

[draš katalenić]

Thanks.. Buzz Ricksons Skunk works



Thanks Dras.. this was an ebay find and a bargain




Thanks Thomas.. typical American dream home.. 4 kids, 2 dogs.. 15 leather jackets.. you know just the basics

Hope i will find sometning like that in size 46 or 48.

 

[draš katalenić]

Today Avirex A-2 50 years of USAF.

 

[Monitor]

Today Avirex A-2 50 years of USAF.
View attachment 224614

Is this horse?

Some of these Avirex jackets I've recently seen, they stand side by side with the most nicest makers that I have any experience with. Leather is often brilliant and seems extremely high quality to me. I don't know why are they not held in a higher regard and often almost dismissed. The jackets are regularly high quality, more so than Schott.

There's this standard Avirex cross zip pattern which really is one of the better cross zips I had. Well cut, practical, great material and as comfortable Langlitz. I'm still on the hunt for another one.

 

[draš katalenić]

Is this horse?

Some of these Avirex jackets I've recently seen, they stand side by side with the most nicest makers that I have any experience with. Leather is often brilliant and seems extremely high quality to me. I don't know why are they not held in a higher regard and often almost dismissed. The jackets are regularly high quality, more so than Schott.

There's this standard Avirex cross zip pattern which really is one of the better cross zips I had. Well cut, practical, great material and as comfortable Langlitz. I'm still on the hunt for another one.

No, this one is made of goatskin.
This model is made for conference in Las Vegas 1997, for celenration of 50 years of USAF.

 

[Boyo]

Rainy Day....

Diamond Dave Buco J100 seal brown Goatskin

 

[ton312]

Rainy Day....

Diamond Dave Buco J100 seal brown Goatskin

View attachment 224622 View attachment 224623 View attachment 224624

Boyo it looks like you’ve dropped some lbs.