Yeah the G& B pleates are fantastic - they don't open (elastic hidden insidde jacket) and they are narrower. Wested pleats hang open just like the ones in the movie.
My US Wings has a band of elastic too. It is inside betweeen the lining nad the leather and serves to pull the pleats (gussets) in a little. I have actually been considering removing it because I can feel it when sitting in a car seat and as soon as I think of it, it starts bothering me.
I think it might have to do with how a person is built and how the jacket is tailored aswell. The Wested I sent back had elastics and the pleats were gaping and bulging, the one I got back didn't gape at all with no elastics. I'm not sure what they did, but it worked.
I don't know anything about that jacket. If you want to get a lamb jacket, consider Todd's. It is lamb and $150, just $2 more than that jacket. The Todd's lamb has recieved much praise. I don't own one, but plan to.
I've heard something about that picture on that site being stolen, or the jacket is a US Wings, or something along those lines. Basically just don't trust that site I think was the general consensus. As for the Todd jacket, I don't own one, but I have tried one on and I was quite unimpressed. Nothing against Todd as I'm a big fan of everything else I've seen from him, but that jacket feels like a cheap t-shirt and is extremely short. I'm pretty tall though, so that's just for me.
What' kinda scary is the model is actually a real person....although he looks like a mannequin
That's because that IS a mannequin. It was either agent5 or Chris King's mannequin, to be exact. They just superimposed somebody's face over the picture, which they used without consent...
