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Heyjude7

Anyone else have any good experience with jacket upsizing ?

Heyjude7

Thanks. :TOH: This is a size 44. Im 6'2 so I had this made at 27. Sleeve is 25 I believe. Holt, I know you’re a stickler for details so seeing your action pleats on your jacket made me feel better about mine. I was noticing the other day that my action pleats are opened like yours. I couldn’t remem...

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Hey fellow Indy fans. Recently got a Steele and Jones Crusade jacket in cow and it’s a tad bit fitted. Overall it’s amazing just a smidge too tight. I wanna be able to wear a thicker sweater in it. Any suggestions on stretching it ? Was lookin around and saw the water treatment works for some. Any s...

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I ordered a OTR Crusade jacket in predistressed hide from Wested on December 9th and received it on the evening of January 11th. I went with my proper size of 42 and it feels great! Slightly tighter in the chest when zipped up than my OTR Raiders, but that isn't a big deal. My initial thought when ...

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So is it safe to say they got the details right and ordering the hero would include these details or I’d have to request them?

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Thank you for the quick reply. The hero pics on their site have the hem sewn. I want that accuracy detail on it. I have a Nowak Raiders but It has gotten a tad snug these days and I am gonna give it to my son. I got it the year he was born (2009) and now he can fit it. 13 years old and shot up to my...

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Good day all, I have a question about the wested Hero LC jacket. Is the back bottom panel stitched or is it folded over like the legacy LC?
I’m on the fence about which one to get. I plan on getting it in goat skin.

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Has anyone tried their antique dressing ? https://pecard.com/shop/antique/antique-leather-dressing/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I bought a small can of it Along with the original dressing. The original “dressing” is correct for a leather jacket ? https://pecard.com/shop/...

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How do these fedoras hold up?

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Thomas used to offer lower end hats that were a Christy's that he would change the ribbon and swap out the liner and bash to as close as you could get with a Christy's. I don't think he would reblock them as that's a lot of work and would make them quite a bit more expensive than the roughly $100 t...

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This fedora is a thing of beauty and I can’t wait til it arrives !
Thank you for looking and any information anyone has.

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Good day! Just got a great deal on a Fedora from a forum member and a member of the Raiders FB page. We were both wondering about the fedora. It has a Christys sweatband and an Advintage liner. The brim dimensions are 2 1/2 x 2 5/8 It’s an amazing looking fed and zero regrets about it jus curious on...

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Here’s a Fed IV Deluxe I had back in 2014 (sold it a while back though)
It has a good color but also could be the lighting

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How do you lighten the color? Will it eventually fade to a lighter brown?
Anyone try any methods to lighten the color ?

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Is the Fed IV dark brown close to the color seen in the Movies? Any of the 3 (ok..4!)

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Looking at pics of Magnoli's Adventure Jacket White label, the hide looks very similar to the 747.. or is it my bad eyes?

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Since I am on deployment in Japan, I had the wife snap some updated pics of my jacket.

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Leather is a natural material and it is not unusual for some panels to be thinner or softer than others. This may only become aparent when the hide softens. It is highly unlikely leather has worn thinner. The surface would need to be abraided for that to happen. I think Nowak used a thickness of 2....

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Hey Jude, don't be afraid (sorry, couldn't resist ;) ). I suspect your jacket is just loosening up, as I can't imagine why the leather would be getting thinner. However, if you're starting to feel worried about wearing a jacket that is by now almost irreplaceable, Bill Kelso's relic hunter was made...

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Greetings all, I’ve been back on my Indy kick for a lil while now and had a question about my 11 year old Nowak Raiders in 747. It has been my Goto jacket and worn any chance I can. It’s super broken in and in some areas it’s starting to look/feel thinner. Will these areas eventually tear ? You can ...

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With these sorts of offerings it is not always certain that the photo is of the jacket you are getting. A common ploy is to use someone else's worth jacket for your photos and sell junk. But I Cady may be more ethical than that. With the Fury jacket, the jacket was exactly like the photo. every det...

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Redesigning the arm hole and adding gussets. Wested's normal add-on gussets are not all that functional, however. I haven't really had a problem with a standard Raiders with gussets, but the LC does it no matter what and the LC Hero is the worst offender. I once experimented and got Wested to send ...

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Hammerklavier wrote:
Heyjude7 wrote:Any pics ?
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Nice ! Sweet pjs.
That’s my biggest gripe with Wested is the squirrel effect. How does one get a jacket that doesn’t have this ?

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Any pics ?

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Do these Wested hero LC have the flying squirrel effect ?

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I own a max cady Fury jacket and it’s a well made jacket. They had good customer service too.

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Got it. Must of skipped over that line. Thank ya

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Thanks Brandon. Fascinating and greatly appreciated. Confirms my view on the Tony Nowak jacket and on the lack of evidence that your truck jacket is the Iman jacket. What is your view on the jacket Tony Nowak has? Jus curious The same view expressed by Brandon. That Tony didn’t have a screen used j...

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CM wrote:Thanks Brandon. Fascinating and greatly appreciated. Confirms my view on the Tony Nowak jacket and on the lack of evidence that your truck jacket is the Iman jacket.

What is your view on the jacket Tony Nowak has? Jus curious

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What kind of buckles are those ?

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I am fully convinced Tony had a screen used jacket. The things I would say are similar are pocket details and placement of collar and seams.
I get it though, that Indy jackets are all related and one big happy family.

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After in being incredibly bored at work and fascinated with the new discovery, I started to look at which jacket this could possibly be. Maybe my eyes are playing tricks but the Hovito temple and the jacket in question have the same light spots (discoloration) and the same crease in the top of the s...

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I keep looking at my Nowak Raiders jacket and I see a lot of similarities between this jacket and mine. the difference to me is the collar... but I didn't get my collar to be an exact copy of the one Tony had.. I asked for a different shape.... Tony did say the jacket he had was in bad shape... what...

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CM, what is the wrinkling from ?

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With such a beautiful jacket, it’s hard to believe that there are only a handful of posts on the Magnoli White Label Adventure jacket. I’ve been lurking CoW a lot lately. As I have gotten older, and gaining a few extra pounds (now on deployment in Japan) I have noticed i may not fit my Nowak Raiders...

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I just think to get all the details down and make an exact copy of what we see on screen he had to have had an Original jacket. Is the consensus that he did have a movie jacket and we just don’t know where from and who from ? Maybe George Lucas asked him to fix the main hero one that’s falling apart...

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What ever jacket he got he seemed to nail down the details pretty well. We could think and research from now until the end of time and never know.
I was looking through other threads today and read that the jacket he had was ripped up or falling apart.

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It’s been a long time but recently watched Raiders and it sparked my Indy jacket interest! I am a proud owner of Tony Nowak’s Raiders jacket in 747 cowhide and always interested in the story of how he got a hold of a screen used jacket. I looked back in the archives and all those wonderful pics of ...

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THank you so much! greatly appreciated!

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I know I know reviving a really old thread but does anyone have the chart that Tony Nowak has on his website that I used for the measurements in the first post of this thread. I can’t find it for some reason and the way back machine didn’t help at all. Thank you all in advance

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It’s been a long time but recently watched Raiders and it sparked my Indy jacket interest! I am a proud owner of Tony Nowak’s Raiders jacket in 747 cowhide and always interested in the story of how he got a hold of a screen used jacket. I looked back in the archives and all those wonderful pics of t...

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Good evening and happy holidays. I have been away from this forum for quite some time. Being stationed in Europe I do a lot of traveling with the fam and fell off. I see the BK raiders jacket is amazing. I am a proud owner of a Raiders Nowak. From what I remember back in the day (which was a Thursda...

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I'm liking this jacket !

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This guy has to be a member here. He's too accurate.. In a sense lol

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