Club Obi Wan

Lord_Clarence

Yup, too rich for my wallet, but that's a great looking jacket. Kind of reminiscent of HF's jacket in ESB, in fact. Which I also covet. Best thing off the rack I've found is J. Crew's Utility jacket.

-LC

Lord_Clarence

Years ago, the security guy in the lobby of my wife's building downtown stopped me to ask about my jacket. He recognized it and wanted to know all about how I got it. I gave him the URLs of Wested and COW. That made me feel pretty good. More recently, on my last trip to Disneyland, the Cast Member a...

Lord_Clarence

I would describe the undertone of my 2005 Wested authentic lamb as tan colored. FWIW.

cf. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51442

-LC

Lord_Clarence

I would love to see the back on it. Heh, gotta be honest, the back doesn't look like much. A mark here and there, and the corners of the yoke are rubbed off. But I'll put up some more shots and link to them soon. Thanks for all the comments, folks! Back in the day, I really envied the distressers o...

Lord_Clarence

I've been meaning to do this for a while: some shots of my jacket, purchased in 2005. I can't believe I've had it that long. Other than a single acetone rubdown shortly after I first got it, this is all natural. Truth to tell, I've only ever treated the leather once, also. Shame on me, perhaps, but ...

Lord_Clarence

Thanks. That came up a few years ago during a discussion of "Weird Al" Yankovic's Indy Gear in UHF. His bag is virtually the same in the Indy parody scenes. Technically, any kind of gear that is considered canon is Indy Gear, so if someone wanted to do a set of "Sky Pirates" gea...

Lord_Clarence

Twice now, recently, my wife has said something to the effect of, "That jacket is really looking worse for wear. Is it time for a new jacket?" or, "So, have you started planning what jacket you're going to get next?" To which I patiently explain, again, that it's the point of thi...

Lord_Clarence

I have to agree, as costumes go, that stuff isn't that bad for what it is, and it's cheap. For somebody who does want to make an Indy costume (as opposed to collecting SA Indy gear) their thing for Halloween and theme parties, they could do worse than getting than getting that jacket, bag, whip and ...

Lord_Clarence

One jacket here, and no need for another. I mean, how is it supposed to get distressed a la Michaelson if I am constantly rotating jackets? Wested Raiders Authentic Brown Lamb, bought in 2005, and looking better with every passing year! I don't baby it; I take it to the wilderness and wear it daily ...

Lord_Clarence

I would go with the time travel theory, definitely.

The Fourth Doctor wore a fedora, too. Coincidence?

-LC

Lord_Clarence

My Wested lives on a wooden peg by the front door pretty much year round - when it's not on me, that is. Sometimes for travel it gets stuffed into a suitcase or crammed into any available crevice in the packed car. I didn't buy an authentic reproduction of the world's greatest adventurer's jacket so...

Lord_Clarence

Dude, that is my hat as well, and I love it to death. My hat band disintegrated long ago, though. After searching far and wide for a replacement I liked, I finally fashioned my own ribbon and bow, so it's a bit more Indy-like than the original, but certainly nobody here would accuse it of being a sc...

Lord_Clarence

Sorry to hear about your difficulty.

Five years on, I love my Wested Raiders, and after my wife and kids, it's the first thing I'd grab in a fire.

LC

Lord_Clarence

I think the Raiders opening hat does it for me. It's the beginning of the first movie, you don't know who this guy is, and you just see his silhouette. The shape of the hat there is so iconic. Then you see him come out of the shadows--after he whips Barranca--and you're like, "Woah, this guy is...

Lord_Clarence

My first was the Stetson Indy hat that came out around the time of Temple of Doom, in a youth model. I was on top of the world with that hat. It had an Indiana Jones pin and everything. Couldn't get more official than that. My first was this same hat, a gift from my uncle who collected hats. (Have ...

Lord_Clarence

I used to ride the train downtown to work, and there was a guy who would wear what looked like an Indy jacket and a straw fedora. Didn't look like a Wested, but definitely was cut like an Indy jacket. I never had the nerve to say something--I'm not an extrovert either--but I wish I had. I've only ev...

Lord_Clarence

I've got four years of (seasonal California) wear, and no issues with my cotton lining.

LC

Lord_Clarence

Denim? What's the source for that? I'll see if I can find it, but I thought I read it was some kind of twill. The Jacket I just watched ESB. I guess it could have been denim, it's hard to tell. I do think it would look good in a dark denim, though I would prefer (and always imagined it to be) a ligh...

Lord_Clarence

Interesting! For me, the "Bespin jacket" is the next one on my list, and one I'd love to wear regularly. I've always thought it was a very cool jacket. A season or two ago Old Navy actually carried a blue jacket that was a little longer, and it had epaulets (sp?), but it had four pockets o...

Lord_Clarence

Hey, never knock a DP for adventure purposes. My crushable outback hat may not pass costume muster among this crowd, but for a $30 hat I got seven years ago, it's been on a lot of adventures, covered thousands of miles with me, and looked good doing it, for little out-of-pocket risk. I just sewed an...

Lord_Clarence

That looks an awful lot like my '84 Stetson Disney ToD, which, re-bashed, doesn't look half-bad for a costume hat. It actually suits my head better than the taller, "real" fedoras, though I really prefer my DP outback hat in general.

Regards,
LC

Lord_Clarence

I'm a fan of the ToD look as well, and I think you've got it there, Jens. The length looks good to me.

There's something about the look when Indy's riding the elephant, and the jacket hangs down low so the hems brush the elephant's back, it's very jungle.

Regards,
LC

Lord_Clarence

Cool thread! I've always been a jacket guy. My first cool jacket was a blue Members Only (hey, as a little kid in the '80s, it was cool), on which I stuck my Return of the Jedi patch from the Lucasfilm Fan Club; it was my Han Solo jacket. Later in middle school it was a brown suede jacket--not reall...

Lord_Clarence

For what it's worth, this bag can be adapted for use as an adventure bag. http://www.indygear.com/cow/viewtopic.php?p=315499 It's not going to give you the same look as the MkVII, and will take additional sourcing for the strap and hardware, but maybe the price is right. It was for me. Regards, LC

Lord_Clarence

Going even further, I'm 6' 1", 175 lbs., and my Wested is essentially a 38 Long. It takes all sizes.

Regards,
LC

Lord_Clarence

Why exactly does a hat have to consist of animal fur? Why can't it just be felt? I have nothing against furflet blends, but I'm just curious. Every serious gearhead knows that absolutely the best fedoras are made from the fur of the elusive furflet. This rare creature can only be found if you wait ...

Lord_Clarence

Looks like a worthy flight jacket in the adventure spirit. Wilson's in the mall always turns my head, if only to see how close they can get in a "consumer" jacket. Looks good.

Kentucky Blues wrote:If only it were a bit colder outside...

I hear that!

LC

Lord_Clarence

I think those are great looking boots. If I had them, that would be the end of it... but that's me, I'm a close-enough kind of guy, for the most part. (Cf. my US gas mask bag.) But of course, many here gotta have the Aldens, and these would certainly fit the bill until enough fish are saved for thos...

Lord_Clarence

Like so many, I had a Disney fedora (mine was the Stetson ToD) from way back. Also like so many, what really did it in the "modern" age of collecting gear was hunting for the jacket. I found COW, and it's all downhill from there! I agree with the sentiment that, in my life anyway, the hat ...

Lord_Clarence

Nice. Not a bad concept for a new coin, either!

*ducks*

LC

Lord_Clarence

If you can find large heavy round rings, I'd suggest you change out the D's for the round rings. Interesting advice. One of the straps has already started to tear, before I even got my seam-ripper-wielding paws on it. I'm glad others out there have some experience with this thing--after searching a...

Lord_Clarence

As some of you probably imagined I would, I went ahead and cut off the offending hardware. Just a small cut, mind you--enough to take it off and put it back on if need be. With D-rings, bent a little outward to take the width of the strapping: http://indy.coreynitschke.com/images/bag_drings.jpg The ...

Lord_Clarence

Update: I've made some progress. In an effort to cut as little as possible, I ripped the threads on the strap anchors, just below the metal rings (one ring is like a very skinny "O", the other is curvy and catches the hook). The idea was to free up some room to wiggle the rings around, loc...

Lord_Clarence

If I do move the one strap anchor so that the bag opens on top instead of on the side, I will most likely wear it with the flap to the outside--which means I might not worry about those markings, as they won't normally be seen.

LC

Lord_Clarence

What a nice strap :wink: Thanks! Now for the bag... heaven knows who has had this thing, and what the markings mean! It has clearly been used and loved, and that's good. However, I do hope I can find a way to get some of this stuff off. http://www.coreynitschke.com/indy/images/bag_front.jpg http://...

Lord_Clarence

In an effort to be different (and cheap), I'm adapting a kind of oddly-shaped US gas mask bag (still WWII vintage) to be my Indy bag. Pics of that later. First, of course, we need a strap for that baby! Yesterday I got an KH sling from ebay. It came from The Armorers Place ebay store; there were act...

Lord_Clarence

I've got an HK sling from ebay on the way. I'm usually all talk and no show when it comes to pics, but I hope to put some up. I'm converting an American WWII bag to use the sling strap and have an almost-but not quite Indy bag. Actually, it's not even almost, but it will be one-of-a-kind in these pa...

Lord_Clarence

Maybe you'll get this a million times, maybe not...

but are you sure it isn't Prefect?

Welcome!

LC

Lord_Clarence

My Italian lamb Wested is a couple of years old now, and shows a similar wear pattern. (yeah yeah, pics maybe later) I don't think I'd call it lifeless. I love it, and I don't see any need to get another anytime soon--still distressing this one the old fashioned way! My mother noticed a wear spot on...

Lord_Clarence

That Stetson with the Indy silkscreen in it is the one I have. I must admit I have sullied its purity by darkening the (over the years faded) ribbon with a felt pen. Made a big difference in looks, but I may have destroyed any market value it might have had. Doesn't matter, it means more to me as a ...

Lord_Clarence

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Lord_Clarence

I just adore my Wested lamb. It was quite the buildup to purchase; the specs were sitting on the fridge for a long time as I bided my time. My S.O. never got the hint, but eventually the purchase was made, and the jacket was and is still perfect. Just getting some nice wear in it now, a couple years...

Lord_Clarence

I also feel compelled to chime in on this hat. You can see it on in my avatar at left, in fact (well, okay, I rebashed it). Not the most accurate, and certainly not the most well made, but a fun first hat for me as a kid, and as close enough hats go, not too shabby. As a collector's item (pin and al...

Lord_Clarence

Unfortunately, this still won't gain me any traction with my wife, who thinks public fedora wearing is for old men, weird old men at that.

Will be interesting to see her reaction when she sees the leopard print band I'm having added to my hiking hat...

Cordially,
LC

Lord_Clarence

I cannot believe I have never, ever noticed that Indy and company was even carrying around that bag! I may have to turn in my credentials... or at least take a refresher course and watch the trilogy again. Darn.

Cordially,
LC

Lord_Clarence

Stick a Jake Cutter label on that one.

Cordially,
Lord Clarence

Lord_Clarence

Well, I guess I feel a whole lot better about friends thinking my felt DP outback hat looks like Indy's. It's a lot closer than Indy's fedora is to a top hat. :shock: Truth is, I don't really pull off the fedora well, my avatar pic notwithstanding. My head's the wrong shape or something. The outback...

Lord_Clarence

This one is pretty crappy too: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Indiana_Jones_full.jpg At first, I was thinking that the above (vinyl?) Indy doesn't look a thing like him. But when I looked at the enlarged version, the middle of the face does bear some resemblance to Harrison Ford. Sort of. ...

Lord_Clarence

Through a warp in the time-space continuum, Charlie Chaplin looks on as Indiana Jones is chased down the stairs by the Death Star...

Cordially,
Lord Clarence MacDonald

Lord_Clarence

Two thoughts: 1) This new gizmo prints on satin, if I read correctly. What about cotton linings? 2) Perhaps Peter would consider doing a run of "patches" for existing Wested owners, for an appropriate charge, which we could sew or have sewn into our linings. Cordially, Lord Clarence MacDon...

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