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It’s wild that Holt is an Inch taller than me and rocks a back length of 27 but if I’m measuring correctly, I need a 29. I measured myself multiple times and also measured another jacket that fits me perfectly the way I’d like my Indy jacket to fit and it’s 29 inches. I am six two and wear a back l...

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Cool. I noticed that the inside collar has a seam running along the top which doesn't appear on my Wested ToD jacket and are the pockets particularly high on this one?

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Begin rant. Unless your jacket is specifically for cosplay, pretend, theater etc. I dont see the need to artificially distress a new and perfectly good leather jacket. I carefully select a good, well built, cosmetically appealing, stylish leather jacket to USE and not baby. Break them in with your ...

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Hello, I hope you understand me. I'm not saying that the Wested product is not a good choice. Wested is quality, without a doubt. But the Destiny jacket isn't screen faithful in highly visible ways. The drop of the shoulders, due to the width of the pattern, this is not correct. HF wears a jacket t...

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Hmmm. Not great. I guess the Raiders jacket can afford to be a little baggy.

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Noah wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 9:55 pm Got some pictures today. Think they give an idea of how it fits and the way the arms crease:

Perfect. Got to be happy with that.

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I never buy a jacket based on the labelled size they are almost meaningless. I wear a size 38,40,42,44,46,48 depending on who makes the jacket and what pattern it is. All you can go by is your measurements - best derived by measuring a jacket that fits you will. I need a pit to pit of 23.5 (give or...

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I like the destiny leather but to me the original jacket looks like a cowhide jacket. Looks semi stiff. At least from all the promoshots we have seen when Ford wears it. Its like the LC jacket, looks like cowhide but is lambskin. Interesting. The photos had me thinking it's the most 'lamb looking' ...

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I think I like the Wested leather more than the film version.

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Hello there, This is my first post here in the club, so greetings to everybody. Been looking over the forum for a few days and it's been real fun looking at everything. I am looking to get my first Indy style jacket. Planning on going with a Wested in the standard Raiders style in goatskin. I'm abo...

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Wow, that looks almost perfect for a Raiders. That's the nature of teacore; that top coat acts more like a lens for the brown underneath than it does a cover. Very cool. Are you planning on stocking more, Diego? Are you hiding any other leathers up you sleeve? We have in stock this "Blackstone...

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Reading through all the threads it seems as if to the original screen used jacket was measured by Tony Nowak at 23 inches in the back. Is there no possibility that it was originally 23 1/2 or even 24 and it shrunk over the years and with water exposure? I would think so. And wasn't the jacket also ...

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I'd love to see an outside pic myself. It does totally look dark brown. I always got an almost black vibe from the TOD jacket. Couldn't find a high res pic of this , but I especially got that vibe in this pic https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSLCtX6t3UIcxYoGYeWo2J7wa9obEGXDJ4NUL...

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Well that will be personal opinion, right? Best, as in best made; strongest; most accurate patterns and materials; bang for buck - a combination of all of these? Wested are pretty well made and affordable still. And quick to obtain. I prefer their current work to when I first bought from them 20 yea...

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Am I safe in assuming that the shoulder seam isn't way the heck far down the shoulder as it is in the Raiders jacket? Yes - My recent 42 ToD is 20 inches across the shoulder. My old LC jacket, which was the same pattern as the Raiders, was around 3 inches wider, resulting in that characteristic 198...

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Appreciate all the feedback. I am aware of the other makers out there and do appreciate those suggestions. There are definitely a ton of threads debating accuracy. For this thread, I'm curious about fit of modern Wested options, especially in relation to those older patterns. Hoping there are some ...

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Thanks for that. Certainly accuracy of each, current and past, will vary considerably, but I suppose that's a question for another thread :) I figured the 20 year old patterns would be different from the more modern ones. Makes sense. The comparison of the fit between the modern and the past would ...

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Thank you all for the replies. I'm new to collecting Indy things (and to message boards). I'll update this thread when the jacket finally arrives. Actually it looks early naughties to me. I had one like it, although I think the earlier ones like mine had no piping across the top of the pocket flap....

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The annoying thing Wested keep getting wrong with these LC jackets are the darn pockets. The pocket flap is considerably wider than the pocket in the screen used version. It looks kind of odd looking having the flap cut to the same width as the pocket itself.

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Not too bad a fit for a modern A2. If you look at photos from the time A2's fit all over the place, baggy and tight, short and long. So period accuracy is a bit problematic. The shoulders don't seem overly wide which is the usual problem with the modern ones which are usually not cut anything like t...

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Most Coopers are cut very wide and big but I have seen some slimmer cuts. Actual World War Two jackets in a size 48 (pretty rare) would today fit like a size 44. They were really trim, no matter which A2 pattern supplier. A trim 48 in a Cooper is hard to imagine, but I guess if the shoulders are aro...

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Leather treatments can be controversial. I have put almost every leather jacket I've owned into a front loader washing machine with detergent over the past 30 years - mainly goat, steer and cowhide jackets. Two lambskins. I have never had a problem - no shrinking or tearing. In my experience it make...

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I like the pocket flaps - especially the way they are wider than the pocket itself - a detail I don't think Wested get right.

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I totally agree with Holt on this one. I bought a Legacy a few weeks ago, when I got it I was a little surprised at the colour, it looked a lot like the slightly grey milk chocolate authentic brown from about 10 years ago. Contacted Mick to make sure it was the right "legacy" lamb leather...

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Yep, I remember those Camel ads very well. I did smoke Camels for a while. Here in Australia quite a few stores sold distressed A2 style jackets for at least 5 years following Raiders and Temple. Then suddenly they were gone and everyone got into Brando style black motorbike jackets. The public is f...

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So in universe, how much weathering might have happened to his jacket after swinging into a South American river? So maybe, in universe, getting the jacket soaked during an unexpected river raft ride, and then walking around in the intense India heat really did a job on the leather. Waster doesn't ...

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As a guy who has never given his jackets the water treatment, I have often wondered this. At the beginning of both Raiders and Crusade, Indy takes a plunge and totally submerges his jacket in water. After those "water treatments", would he end up with a nicely weathered jacket, or a destr...

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The main hero left side collar also laid flat, but is difficult to see the interior details: https://ibb.co/PtGXh1Q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Continuity wise, there would have been no reason to use another jacket, for just one scene and then they switched back to the ...

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Whilst it’s a question about Indys Jackets, I’ve put this here due to the fact it’s not a question strictly pertaining to details about the jacket itself. Please move if I’ve got this wrong. I was just thinking about the ‘weathering’ on his jackets. Much of what we see is wear and tear from years o...

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What back in the 80s made you believe it was cloth? Like I’m just thinking about resolution back then compared to now. It wasn't a close look at resolution and I can't remember exactly why anymore but I guess it was just a hunch, the way it flew about in the running and the fact that it went into t...

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It's funny, I remember looking at this scene in the mid 1980's on video and being convinced it was a cloth jacket - I would never have believed that decades later this notion might become cannon.

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On the first purchase I wasn’t living in England, and I’m not British so my accent wouldn’t suggest I’m local. I’m pretty sure my emails didn’t give away my location. I’d have to check but it would be weird for me to tell them where I’m from when enquiring about jacket specs, and I emailed from a g...

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Possibly, but my communications have either been by email or phone so not sure how much impact where I’m based would have on that. Although I can see how location would effect postage and their returns policy, as we’ve seen here. II’m only an hours drive from their shop, and an hour from HJ, bit cr...

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Absurd. Your somewhat abusive responses and telling other people here you don't care what they think suggests that you should examine your own conduct. Please note, 1 response due to it appearing he only came in here to try and insult me by making the snarky "smallest violin" comment whic...

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I think the worlds smallest violin has started playing. It's bad luck but always read the T&Cs. Peter's been gone for over three years. Where else can you buy a custom made Indiana Jones jacket for around £250 and receive it in less than three weeks. By the way my legacy jacket is great. So the...

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I haven't interacted here for quite a while (life got in the way). Here's what I had to send to Wested regarding their customer service: Hi, I own a few Wested jackets and had just seen the announcement for your Legacy offerings. This reminded me that I had sent my sister in your direction to order...

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I have one, these are straight out of the box, the jacket has nice acurate hardware: 2 prong buckles, n*pple style poppers and a white metal zipper, the Berman's label is sewn onto the liner minus the leather patch they normally use and there's and embroidered dedication sewn inside the pocket. The...

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My Wested just like this was called a Last Crusade. These were the days when Wested told us that the only difference between a Raiders and an LC was an additional inch in length and a snaps. We forget that Wested took years to recover screen accurate details.

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Unfortunately I think managing a pandemic will take priority over jacket making, as it should. Patience will be needed for a lot of things for some time to come.

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Yep, it's an older one, you can see that from the pockets and the flap design. Not accurate but... characterful. Mine from 2002 looked like this. Long sold. Nice condition. Like a lot of leather jackets it has hardly been worn and stored carefully. I like these a lot more now the years have gone on....

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My Wested LC was 25 inches long at back and I am six two. It was certainly long enough. At five eight, I would have thought 22.5 is about right. If the OP wore a 26 inch long jacket it would probably fit like a car coat. Fans do often seem to wear these jackets on the long side and the film one was ...

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I never buy a jacket based on the labelled size they are almost meaningless. I wear a size 38,40,42,44,46,48 depending on who makes the jacket and what pattern it is. All you can go by is your measurements - best derived by measuring a jacket that fits you will. I need a pit to pit of 23.5 (give or ...

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The main problem with the cheaper or mass produced A2's like Wings or G&B is the cut of the pattern. They tend to be made to be blousy and wide and fit like a baggy 1980's jacket. The originals and good copies have a cut that is narrower in the shoulders and sleeves and torsos and therefore look...

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Sometimes the easiest way to determine jacket size is to find a denim or trucker jacket that fits you as you would like an Indy to fit. This will give you good measurements for sleeve, pit to pit and back length. Just measure this jacket from the base of the collar seam to the end of the bottom hem,...

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I would think you may be lucky to get $500-$700 for a TN jacket now, unless there is a person consumed by the idea that a Nowak is a must have at almost any price.

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I still contend there was more intention in the fit of the Raiders jacket than many like to think. That collar and shoulder size are MASSIVE -- I would contend something more appropriate for a 50-inch chest than the what 40-41-inch? chest of Ford. Yeah, the jacket was made hastily and the design is...

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You think it's a SA looking fit? It was a "custom" jacket, but then again you only get to pick the chest, sleeves, and length. I would have specified a slim fit if I'd had the option. I definitely wouldn't have picked a Hero cut - any larger would have been crazy! So HERO cut = larger fit...

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The photos look like a perfect fit.

I have bought dozens of leather jackets over 35 years - the only measurements I ever worry about are sleeve, shoulder, chest and back.

Everything else takes care of itself.

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The more replies, the merrier! As for me, I alternated between a cloth measuring tape & a regular measuring tape on a jacket that did fit very well. In the end, stick with the cloth measuring tape because: 1.) That's what Magnoli recommends for greater accuracy, 2.) It's what they utilize on th...

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If it's too short, how many inches should I add? Thanks! https://imgur.com/a/M0eLzpR" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; 1 inch. As a rule of thumb add half inch" more than you need. I think wested mention this somewhere on their site. If I were you I would order 26" ...

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