The jacket begun as a sz 48 Temple... after a few bouts in the tumble dryer it's more of a Raiders now, as far as length is concerned. Tumbling did reduce the bagginess though, which was the main mission objective... I ordered it with not that many specs - single-piece underarm gussets, black anodized sliders, cotton body, satin sleeve lining.
One thing I wanted to achieve was the ToD "accordion sleeves", best seen in the end scenes. Just as VP pointed out in an old thread, those sleeves look übercool and I wanted to emulate that look on my jacket.
So, I took a couple of showers wearing the jacket (oh, like you never wanted to), pulled the sleeves up above the elbows, Miami Vice-style and let dry. Rinse and repeat. My sleeve wrinkles are not as obvious as Indy's - yet - and don't really show unless I wear the jacket. You can see the wrinkle lines on the pics though.
I'm still a bit puzzled over how I'll manage to wrinkle the sleeves above the elbow, but I'll think of something.
As for the distressing job itself - it's the run-of-the-mill acetone and sandpaper deal. Acetone rubbing was made a couple of years ago, the rest's been light (oh well) sanding and tossing the jacket around. Oh, and the tumble dryer rides - two of them - also removed the "new jacket"-sheen.
A closeup of the collar/shoulder region. Collar was prepped with acetone and later topically sanded for the deeper highlights and scratches. Shoulder is roughed up with a medium/fine grit 3M abrasive sheet. I prefer the 3M sponges and pads over sand paper - not as much hard abrasion and I have more control of the process.
So far, I have gone topical on the scratches - when finished, it's supposed to resemble the ToD jacket more than anything else, but I haven't really bothered with screencaps that much yet - first, I need to get the surface of the leather in the shape I want it before any artsy stuff.
Still need to move a lot of dye on the front, so I guess I'll break out the acetone again soon... funny thing is, that while the front left side of the jacket is very easily distressed, the dye on the right side is really hard to get rid of - need to apply most of the elbow grease there.So far, so good. To be continued...
... taking one's time when distressing is a way to give the jacket a break and get adjusted to the process.
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