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WeeMadHamish

I don't really have a stake in this debate as I don't really care about one vendor from the next... but as an illustrator my eye refuses to see the differences based on photographic angle, focal length, whatever... the flap on the King jacket is just proportionally different. Why? Don't know, don't ...

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Sit on it!

...Seriously.

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Indiana Holt wrote:and some hardly come with any smell at all..you have to stick your nose up against it to smell it...

Who here can admit they haven't done this, at least once?

Great jacket, Holt.

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The gear is his superhero costume. Without it, he's not Indiana Jones, he's just Professor Henry Jones, Jr.

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Reselling at exorbitant cost is not illegal... immoral, maybe, but not illegal.

He bought it, it's his property to do with as he wishes. Only trouble he might get into is if he's marketing himself as a "licensed" reseller.

WeeMadHamish

Knockoffs happen all the time in the apparel and clothing industry all the time and not a lick can be done about it unless the knockoff purports to be from the original maker and makes use of copyrighted material such as the original maker's marks. If Peter slapped the Indiana Jones logo on his jack...

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lpa53 wrote:Does it really matter? Are TOD or LC jackets supposed to have the same 1" seam relationship

I feel the shorter yoke in the Raiders jacket probably contributes to the correct functionality of the action pleats (due to the way they sit on the shoulders), but that's just me.

WeeMadHamish

Got patches like that on my Wested lamb, on the right sleeve, left pocket and left side panel. They feel fragile but after a year they seem to have held up just fine.

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My Magnoli buckle looks similar to the Todd's buckle in overall shape, though it might be a little bit wider.

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I could buy that the drop into the river was a cloth jacket. Can you imagine trying to swim in a soaked leather jacket? Ouch. Also, regarding the lack of manufacturer's tags in the alphared's jacket, and the pre-LC timing, could this be a prototype for the licensed jacket that Ford's people got ahol...

WeeMadHamish

I love Hats Direct, but if the Federation is a slight long oval, I must have an incredibly long oval head. By the way, I don't. I find all Akubras, including the Fed, to be rounder than almost any other brand of hat I've ever worn. They are right about the conforming, though. Actually, with ruler i...

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I strongly suspect this thread is another excuse to post pictures of Ford's bum.

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Well, I happened to figure out that I had a round oval head more or less by accident. When I ordered my first Federation I had inadvertantly measured my head too low in the back, so I ended up ordering a hat two sizes too large. But one thing I noticed when I put it on was that my head made contact ...

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Doesn't look like more than 1 1/2" to me, in that picture. Not greater, but very likely less.

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If I'm just kicking around the homestead (yardwork, grilling, whatever), I'll wear my fed with a (usually dark) t-shirt, but if I decide to head into town I'll usually swap it for my flat cap. Guess I figure I don't look "presentable" with the fedora/t-shirt combination. It's all a matter ...

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Marc wrote:Off topic but... Erri you really need to get some of that swoop out of your brim. It's WAY to much

He's got the barfight swoop in. Personally, I like it.

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I don't believe that the first run had the pen pocket. I know mine doesn't.

Color's lookin' better on the new run though.

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Baby sheeps all the way!

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It's just distortion; you're sitting too close to the camera. The second set of pictures look better. The biggest problem, I think, is that the hat just looks too fresh. You're going to need to be willing to literally put your hat through the wringer if you want a top notch Cairo look. Hey, Holt... ...

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look here. see the red lines.thats were the new shoulder seam should be. also the red dots are the armholes bests Holt No offense to your model, Holt, but he's a bit of a hunchback. :lol: Sorry to stick on this, but you want it to look right, correct? Your sketch doesn't account for the fact that t...

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no,no the seam is tilted bakwards. the seam beginns at the same point as a normal shoulder seam should do. meaning from collar stand to top center sleeve. but in the ToD it was from collar and tilted away from top center sleeve. the RED line indicates a normal shoulder seam to top center sleeve...t...

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Beautiful jacket, starks. Simply beautiful. Why does nobody mention that the back panel length does not extend all the way to the sleeve seam? People jump all over this detail on other jackets. Length, or width? Because the yoke seam is above the sleeve seam, and that is correct. I'm not sure about...

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Just order your normal size. Though it might feel tight at first, the sweatband will eventually conform to the shape of your head. But the looser the fit, the less effective the turn will be. The fact that your head is distorting the shape of the oval is what causes the brim to get that asymmetrical...

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I don't know about y'all, but I'm perfectly willing to accept that Wardrobe had more than one gas mask bag on hand (typical) and that some were groovy and some were not, and that level of consistency in such a minor detail didn't really matter to them at the time.

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I also thought Peter announced that he wasn't accepting any more laundry-list-custom orders. Or do you just have to be willing to shell out a lot more coin for them?

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The side dents could stand to be pushed back a little further (look at the two reference pics posted... the dents extend to the back edge of the bow knot) but it is a very pretty hat.

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I pointed out the "engineering flaw" in the yoke/pleat arrangement once before and got my head bitten off for it by the Wested groupies. ;) Glad someone else recognizes it too. Heck, the action pleats in some cuts of leather jackets run all the way to the shoulder seam. It's supposed to be...

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I ordered my year-old Wested in a standard off-the-rack size and it took their standard 21+ working days to get it. I think if they don't have your size on the rack at the time you order, you get put into the regular line up for production.

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That there looks a heck of a lot better than the pics of the first prototype. It's a winner in my eyes.

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Given that the hats were bashed to hard spec and gauged by ruler, I'd say any differences from scene to scene were entirely incidental due to handling.

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I wanted a jacket made by the people that made the originals. That is part of the lure and attraction in wanting a Wested. As it turns out, I am now the "not so proud" owned of an Indian jacket that just so happens to have a Wested label affixed to it. A case of simple semantics. Unless P...

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John Falcon, Do you have a round oval head? A round oval head will stretch a reg. oval crown sideways and certainly make it look wider and squatter, same way that a long oval head is really needed to get that perfect Raiders silhouette (as it stretches the crown lengthwise and keeps it nice and stra...

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The customs are completely hand made, presumably by Todd himself in his shop. The standards are outsourced and factory-made.

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I've put my Todd's shirt through the normal wash and drying cycle now three or four times now and the shrinkage has been minimal. It got a bit snugger after the first wash, but I think that only adds to the fit. Heck, I wish all of my dress shirts were cut like this... I really hate that blousy look.

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I find that if you want to sit on the hat to give it some character, you REALLY need to work it over with your hands some first to break up the stiffener. Otherwise, yeah... you end up with some really nasty wrinkle. You might try just working the wrinkles out with your fingers before applying the s...

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And the awning jump from ToD.

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I always hang mine from a hook by the loop. Doesn't seem to have affected it adversely.

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It seems they claim the center dent is now thought to be about 4.5 inches I believe. Sounds a tad skimpy to me too but that's what the authorities say. I believe that's 4.5 inches at the front pinch. That's where I creased mine to, anyway. 4.5" in the front, 5" at the top of the humps, an...

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Especially not being much of an Indy-Fedora fanatic, I was surprised that today, when I rewatched Raiders, how much BETTER Indy's hat looked in KotCS than in Raiders! :shock: Careful... that's borderline heresy 'round these parts. ;) I hate to say it, but to me the CS hat was just too... perfect. A...

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I' m with G. You have to sit on the hat. You have to crush it, flatten it, get it to crease along the edge of the ribbon. The Cairo hat is extremely relaxed, almost to the point where the turn doesn't affect the swoop anymore. And yeah, I think it's assumed that the ribbon was cinched tighter to com...

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Personally, I think it's an insult to the purpose of the hat if you're not going to order it in a size that you can wear. Maybe if you intended to put together a display mannequin built to Ford's specs, but otherwise... buying a hat you can't use that has no real film provenance is just silly, no of...

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In Raiders, the sweat stains on Indy's shirt are quite clearly toward the brownish. This would indicate that his shirt is a light beige or tan. My Todd's shirt, when wet, turns a dark khaki. While I think the overall tone of the shirt is correct, I agree with others in that it's too yellow. Most of ...

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I've been thinking about changing out the liner in my Fed IV... I say gold-ish!

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Holt, from the bottom of the collar rand it is 26". :)Its a size 40 thats why I asked I have a size 44 special rotla and it is alo 26'' hmmm??? why is this? anyone know this? KT? bests Holt Maybe they don't size the jackets proportionally? Maybe they only get wider up to a certain size, then t...

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Kt Templar wrote:BTW I noticed that at least one of the jackets in the Raiders "drag under the truck" scene has this seam, makes me believe at least one of the jackets in that scene was a Concessionares jacket.

Would that be the Wilson's jacket, lacking the action pleats?

WeeMadHamish

That swoop of the brim can only be (or is at least most easily) achieved while it's on your head. It's a product of your head distorting the shape of the turned crown. Though I can't tell if there's enough turn to make it work... it looks like the bow isn't far enough forward. Edit: Aeris beat me to...

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Steve said there was also one scene where there was in fact a shorter-crowned, wider-brimmed AB (a prototype) used in error. That may be it.

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re: why aluminum soda cans are safe...I read that they have some sort of coating fused to the metal on the inside. Or something like that. The soda is supposedly not contacting bare metal. That is correct. They are plastic coated on the inside. Otherwise the carbonic acid from your favorite cola wo...

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In ROTLA in the cairo scenes the shirt is almost white. That's an illusion caused by the color being washed out by the bright sunlight. It's clear from the wet spots all over the Cairo shirt that it's actually light tan. The Wested shirt matches screen-seen (in that scene) but not screen-used. ;) F...

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They're all made out of the same Imperial or Heritage felt (which Akubra makes in its own factories, rather than outsourcing), so I'd say they're exactly the same quality. The only difference might be the amount of stiffener used in them, but that always varies anyway.

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