the collar.the color.the pockets.the back pannel.the lenght.the straps,and a detail many may overlook and that is the NO seam on bottom of the jacket.just a like the smithsonian.t has EVERYTHING!
Since it's goat and "almost" impossible to distress, would it be suitable to wear on a motorbike? Ignoring the absence of padding, would it prevent the wearer from being skinned alive if they were to take a quick trip across the asphalt?
I don't ride a motorcycle, but I think that should be the gold standard for an Indy jacket as far as durability is concerned!
Maybe someone can test this empirically! Just like IndyMcFly did with the whip. :P
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I was thinking of getting a Magnoli Vintage Adventure Jacket—the LC jacket looks great but it's a bit out of my price range.
If a goat Vintage Adventure would hold up as a motorcycle jacket, then I'm sold. Of course, I'd wear it in the field mostly (though you never know when you're going to be jumping from your horse onto a tank! Especially if I ever did field work in a third world country...).
Indiana Holt wrote:ohh? it's you my friend.cool.congrats on the new name
yeah?I am thinking of maby give it the LC distressing cause it's a goat and that is impossible to let it natural distress almost
Holt
My Wested goat distressed okay without much actual action... don't have a camera or I'd show it. I think some goat does wear, the dye fades and lightens. It's minld wear but obvious enoughfor it not to look brand new.
Ozraptor wrote:Maybe someone can test this empirically! Just like IndyMcFly did with the whip.
I'll do it!
On a related note - I've always liked the way goat Westeds looked, this jacket also looks great, although the picture has a high contrast / low brightness sort of thing going on so it's difficult to see if I like it better than the Westeds or not.
But I do know that it DOES look good. I say distress it!
I think that, properly distressed, the Magnoli would look more accurate than most Wested LC jackets!
But do you really want to do that? Why not wear the buggery out of it and have the pride of a naturally-distressed jacket decades down the road?
This is why youngsters getting a tough jacket at 17-20 years old have it good; they can wear the same jacket their whole adult life if they want, and it will just look better! I feel sorry for all you old people (Just kidding)
Ozraptor wrote:I think that, properly distressed, the Magnoli would look more accurate than most Wested LC jackets!
But do you really want to do that? Why not wear the buggery out of it and have the pride of a naturally-distressed jacket decades down the road?
This is why youngsters getting a tough jacket at 17-20 years old have it good; they can wear the same jacket their whole adult life if they want, and it will just look better! I feel sorry for all you old people :P (Just kidding)
You'd be doing well to get 10 years out of most of the jackets here if you wear them a lot. Stitching, lining and leather quality are the key factors - goat isn't going to do it on it's own. The jacket does look good, however.
CM wrote:Holt, What is the quality like compared to Wested. What's the leather like and the stitching and lining?
the quality of this jacket is really good.
I mean,it's goat.it has the same feeling to the goat hide as the wested goat hide I had for a couple weeks ago.
the stiching is really well done.the corner of the pockets has reinforced stitching.
and the details on this jacket is amazing.with Magnoli you just have to say what kinda jacket you want.like TOD,LC and you will get the jacket with ALL the details you expect them to have.he knows he's stuff and for sure gives uss the details we want in a jacket.no question about it.
Great to hear. Indy magnoli must be the best dressed chap in all new Zealand given what he has on offer! I could easily spend five grand on suits, jackets, shirts, pants and shoes (the explorers boots look phenomenal). Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go and rob the local petrol station.
you really can see the details on this ''smithsonian'' jacket.
look at the high placement of the straps.the rounded pocket corner
the pointy big collar.the low placement of the backpannel.
the no seam on the bottom of the jacket.
you really can see the details on this ''smithsonian'' jacket.
look at the high placement of the straps.the rounded pocket corner
the pointy big collar.the low placement of the backpannel.
the no seam on the bottom of the jacket.
wow!
Holt
The shallow action pleating too! It's probably even shallower than the Raiders jacket. Sorry for posting so much in this thread, I'm totally geeking out on this…
you really can see the details on this ''smithsonian'' jacket.
look at the high placement of the straps.the rounded pocket corner
the pointy big collar.the low placement of the backpannel.
the no seam on the bottom of the jacket.
wow!
Holt
The shallow action pleating too! It's probably even shallower than the Raiders jacket. Sorry for posting so much in this thread, I'm totally geeking out on this…
post as much as you like yep and the shallow action pleat.it has so many details on it.it's amazing.this could easily be one of the original LC jackets.
Nice jacket Holt, looks to be ready for some adventuring. Do you plan to treat it nice, or give it a beatin' and see how the goat holds up??
I am waiting on a G&B Expedition, and have decided not to take any precautions with it. I will dress it properly with Pecards of course, but if I need to jump a bottomless pit because I "chose the wrong friends", or scale a cliff, it won't be coming off to keep it safe & pretty.
Cheers Brother
hey Ozraptor,now you can see the shoulder seam is under my shoulderbone just like on the jacket Ford had on.
you can see it by the two pictuers in the bottom of the new batch of outside pictures.
you can also see the collar and storm flap is very SA once breaked in
Yup, I see what you mean now! I hadn't noticed that feature when I first received my Wested LC and thought there was something wrong! I'm sure you've noticed, but the LC has unusually long sleeves—either that, or he wears it hanging off a bit, but the cuffs come down to his knuckles—like in the above picture. That's why I wouldn't, if I were you, try to bunch up the sleeves too much.
Of course, the SA look is really helped by the fact that you do have broad shoulders. You could put a screen-used jacket on a lot of guys and it would look weird because they're not wide and bulky enough.
Tron7960 wrote:The only thing that could improve that jacket is a great fedora
hehe a couple days more.yay!!!
and Oz yes the sleeves are very long.I had been driving for about 1 hour while the jacket was still wet...thats why the bunched up sleeves..once it dryed they became more SA.and I love the look of the long LC/CS sleeves.
and have a good work out...lift some for me too will ya?
I say distress it! 
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