Club Obi Wan

I was watching last crusade last night, and couldn't help but notice that the main areas of discoloration and distressing are along the strich marks, zipper, and collar. Illinois.

And the big spot on the back, and elbows

Ken

Why do you think that is? I can't imagine a collare getting that much wear. Illinois

It looks as if they used a different method to do so as well. Illinois

Honestly, I dont think a lot of thought was put into it. They were given the jackets and told to rough them up, so they did. Provided they were all consistently roughed up I dont think the exact nature of the distressing in relation to the other films would have been given too much thought.

Ken

Personally, my favourite jacket is the Raiders jacket. And I don't think it was distressed very much. It looks aged, cracked and wrinkled - but not "distressed" in the way the other jackets were. It's still basically a uniform colour

whiskyman wrote:Personally, my favourite jacket is the Raiders jacket. And I don't think it was distressed very much. It looks aged, cracked and wrinkled - but not "distressed" in the way the other jackets were. It's still basically a uniform colour

Depends what scene you look at. The opening Temple scenes it looks almost brand new and not so in the truck chase (obviously)

Ken

Watched it the other night too and noticed that huge spot on the back also. Kinda dig it, though.

Me too. Even though the distressed areas may not appear to be from natural wear, it is very aesthetic. See below how I distressed my jacket to match:

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Beautiful work Flattery. Looks amazing. What did you use?

Just some carefully applied acetone and sandpaper -- the exact grit I don't know.

My jacket is goatskin, and I'm utterly convinced that the jacket in the movie (or at least, the jacket that we see through most of LC) is lambskin, so it's hard to get the "flaky" effect seen on the movie jacket.

...I also rubbed lightly against a couple brick walls while walking around one day.

This is how it's done:

That turned out beautifully, what type of leather did you choose?

That's Wested's original dark brown English labmskin. Ages like a charm. )

Now that's a very LC jacket.

Oh no... pooooor jacket! Sorry i cant help it, i always suffer when i see jackets distressed like that!

Nevertheless I can appreciate the good distressing work

Don't worry, it was distressed with care. Every seam was sanded with the utmost attention to detail. The jacket only LOOKS fifteen years old! )

whipwarrior wrote: The jacket only LOOKS fifteen years old! )

in 15 years it will look like 30 years old... that's what scares me about the distress!

But it may look fifteen years distressed in other areas, thats my fear with doing mine.

Just a little toooo much, IMO.



have a nice day.

Indiana_Tone wrote:Actually, in 15 years it'll probably still look 15 years distressed. THAT'S the beauty of it.

Exactly!! The things is you could buy a Wested brand new and after wearing ti every day for 15 years it could possibly look one or mayye two years old if you are lucky. I mean distress marks like you see on whip warrior's jacket (INCREDIBLE work by the way - your jacket is awesome man!!!) will NOT happen naturally. The only way anything like that would happen naturally would be if you did things in real life which emulated the distressing process. So far example - sanding and scuffing done with sandpaper or a brick - in real life to create this effect you would need to be abrading the jacket repeatedly against a very rough surfance. Now unless you are running and then sliding on the ground on gravel or something I dont see how this kind of thing is going to happen in every day life.

The only thing that I have ever done whilst wearing the jacket that actually resulted in noticable distressing in any way was being dragged behind a vehicle (no joke - we were taking a road trip through the desert and thought why not). It worked really well and for the reason I just mentioned above.

Ken

That is true, and it is those marks that igve it the Indy look and feel.

I have to agree with IndianaKen and withdraw a statement I made earlier. The jacket looks great whipwarrior, and time will only help enhance the look and feel of the jacket.

Regarding the original start of the thread and the Last Crusade jacket. If you look at the scenes on the beach, birds scene ect.., notice how easily Indy's jacket blows and sways with the breeze, the leather seems increadibly thin and lightweight, almost like a shirt thickness of leather. I believe some heavy duty distresssing or thinning of the leather was done to this jacket to make it so light. Ford often complained about how hot he was in these jackets while filming. I'll bet wardrobe thinned the leather out for him somehow. Take another look at those secenes.

M.L. Jones

Great jacket, Whipwarrior.

Superb distressing

Best regards

JAN

Thanks for the compliments guys. That is my favorite jacket of the three Westeds that I own, and my personal favorite (even more than the new HH). There's a certain kind of comfort lambskin has that no thicker leather can match. I think it's the way the jacket conforms to your body position no matter how you are sitting. Great for long train or airplane trips!