What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

[Mrfrown]

Wore my 618 yesterday

Yes, Vanson patterns have been praised here, with good reason. I've had three - horsehide Ike (too short for me, but as the name suggests shortness is the point here), Octagon Maverick, and now a C2. @dudewuttheheck popularized the C2 here which looked crazy-good on him. They don't call him an influencer for nothing.... And now @Mrfrown is selling a C2 in cognac with no back seam... Good times for the C2 for sure.

I tried quite a few Vansons before going for the C2. Would like to get a Comet back at some point, and a correctly sized Enfield, and etc etc etc

FYI for the C2, I’m adding Walnut Badalassi and Black CXL HH to the available options

 

[Herrvallmo]

Wore my 618 yesterday

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I tried quite a few Vansons before going for the C2. Would like to get a Comet back at some point, and a correctly sized Enfield, and etc etc etc

FYI for the C2, I’m adding Walnut Badalassi and Black CXL HH to the available options

Ooooh Walnut Badalassi on a C2 will look the mutts nuts! really lookin' forward to seeing those Del

 

[Zoro]

Partially this;

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Sorry but... What am I looking at exactly? The graining?

 

[Will Zach]

^^
I know the question was not directed to me..., but yes. @dudewuttheheck C2 also has pretty crazy grain. Later CW is much smoother. Grainy C2 are pretty rare.

 

[dannyk]

What's the benefit of that batch of old CW over other/current batches? I've queried but didn't find much about it I've recently got a Highwayman from 1995 and it surely is thick as hell, looks new (besides some sleeve rolls) but a bigger size would had worked better I think.

Its all subjective what people like to look at, how it ages, rolls, creases, fades or doesnt fade. But Vanson Competition Weight from the late 80s through to the early 2000s. Was super heavy weight and looked very generic when first worn. But the magic happened as it wore in. It just creased amazingly well. the grain popped in a very nice looking way, the almost matte way it looked at first started to have a shine to it. People really value it. Then at some point it changed a little bit to very similar but not quite the same. And now its very different as the tannery that was making it shut down and they had to get a new supplier. Theres nothing wrong with any of their hides Vanson still uses high grade stuff. They still look amazing. Theres nothing bad about the new stuff. Its just not the same. And to my first point some people may even like the newer stuff better. Maybe it looks better, wears better, last longer I dont know as I havent had it. But people really appreciate certain eras of Vanson CW. With that being said you can find clunkers from that era as well as Leather is not uniform. The hide itself can be different or have issues, the batch maybe didnt turn out right, the formula was tweaked. The more Vansons you own and handle what makes old CW special and unique will become obvious. You cant really describe it but you know it when you have it.

 

[Zoro]

^^
I know the question was not directed to me..., but yes. @dudewuttheheck C2 also has pretty crazy grain. Later CW is much smoother. Grainy C2 are pretty rare.

Is this it then?

Is there anything on this beyond the aesthetic? Feel free to explain to me as you would to a 5yo, because I'm not much more knowledgeable than one Nevermind, @dannyk did while I was posting this, thanks!

 

[dudewuttheheck]

^^
I know the question was not directed to me..., but yes. @dudewuttheheck C2 also has pretty crazy grain. Later CW is much smoother. Grainy C2 are pretty rare.

Yeah mine has a lot of grain. It's also heavily worn and quite old which helps it look better, but it's grainy regardless of that

 

[Boyo]

MF Campus

 

[lina]

Dave Sheeley custom.

 

[TLW '90]

I'm wearing the Key Saddle King again.

I still wish the upper arms of the sleeves weren't so big, but I'm starting to get past it.

 

[Will Zach]

That definitely looks like the grail CW leather to me. I got my C2 a few months ago and I believe I have one as well but still need to call Vanson to determine that. .Here is mine with the garment number, curious what your jacket has for a number to see if they are close in age.
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Mine has serial number 29817C24 and is from Aug 1997. Nick from Vanson replied to email in about 10 minutes.

 

[Zoro]

Mine has serial number 29817C24 and is from Aug 1997. Nick from Vanson replied to email in about 10 minutes.

Same experience, very quick answers from Nick at Vanson. Mine is from June 1995.

 

[LeatherHunter]

Mine has serial number 29817C24 and is from Aug 1997. Nick from Vanson replied to email in about 10 minutes.

I heard from Nick. Mine is #76634A**01 is from Oct. 2011 , not as old as I thought.

 

[ZeroDelta]

I just found out from Nick that my model E was made in April of 1991. Its a tank of a jacket. My serial number is 7072A6

 

[Will Zach]

Nick is probably wondering what the hell...

 

[JMax]

I like all CW.

There is like 25 years or so of the “good CW”. Early stuff was grainy as heck but more lightweight. Still awesome. The real early stuff is too thin for my liking. More recent stuff is still excellent, but different.

I wish they still had the X-150 and Octagon. Their replacements are good but somehow lacking. I think Vanson agrees because, as Carlos said, they are still looking for that home run waxy recipe.

 

[dannyk]

I like all CW.

There is like 25 years or so of the “good CW”. Early stuff was grainy as heck but more lightweight. Still awesome. The real early stuff is too thin for my liking. More recent stuff is still excellent, but different.

I wish they still had the X-150 and Octagon. Their replacements are good but somehow lacking. I think Vanson agrees because, as Carlos said, they are still looking for that home run waxy recipe.

I know we talked about this years ago. The early Vanson Harley collab was in the really amazing early batches of X-150. It’s not the same at all anymore. I should have just bought one then. Missed my shot.

 

[JMax]

I know we talked about this years ago. The early Vanson Harley collab was in the really amazing early batches of X-150. It’s not the same at all anymore. I should have just bought one then. Missed my shot.

Good to see you back. Go Bills.

Agree 1000%. X-150 was in my top 2 hides. Octagon right there too.

 

[LeatherHunter]

I like all CW.

There is like 25 years or so of the “good CW”. Early stuff was grainy as heck but more lightweight. Still awesome. The real early stuff is too thin for my liking. More recent stuff is still excellent, but different.

I wish they still had the X-150 and Octagon. Their replacements are good but somehow lacking. I think Vanson agrees because, as Carlos said, they are still looking for that home run waxy recipe.

Do we know when the original , good comp weight was no longer used? The tannery burned or closed down i remember reading here. I had a model J from 2000 that was no question a very good comp weight. My C2 built in 2011 I am not quite sure, great leather and Vanson told me comp weight but does that mean the good years? Or is competition weight their standard name for the leather regardless of tannery.

 

[dannyk]

Do we know when the original , good comp weight was no longer used? The tannery burned or closed down i remember reading here. I had a model J from 2000 that was no question a very good comp weight. My C2 built in 2011 I am not quite sure, great leather and Vanson told me comp weight but does that mean the good years? Or is competition weight their standard name for the leather regardless of tannery.

No idea but that’s kind of why I said late 80s to early 2000s. Sometime in the mid 2000s I don’t know if they changed tannery or just the formula a bit. But it changed. Still really good. Heavier, I think. Cement like even. Took longer to break in and wasn’t quite the same. A notch or two lower in terms of beauty but still pretty good. Then the tannery fire incident and now none of their stuff is the same. I think two of the tanneries they were using closed down. So X-150 and CW are both different now. As @JMax said before like late 80s or early 90s what they had as CW was a lot thinner and not as nice either. But it’s all nice. Vanson never has bad stuff. Just not the same. I had a model E from the 90s that was just a touch too big that I wish I kept because it was so nice. Then a Chopper from like 2015 or 16 both in CW and that was the heavier, duller built like cement jacket. It would survive the apocalypse but wasn’t nearly as nice to look at.