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I'm looking for suggestions on how to evenly distress my Wested. Currently, the jacket is 7 months old (actual usage), but is technically 1 year 4 months old. As you can see from the pictures below most of the distress is on the shoulders and upper back, right arm, and parts of the back. And, the culprit is a 12-16 pound backpack I lug around 7 days a week (Laptop and accessories are a necessity ). There's virtually no wear and tear on the front jacket and left arm. The wear to the right arm is caused when the sleeve gets stuck in the right backpack strap while first looping the left arm in the left backpack strap, switching hands to support the bottom of the bag, then quickly looping the right arm through the right backpack strap. All this while standing in the train, transferring a 1.6 liter water bottle between hands, and making sure my enormous bag does not hit any nearby train passengers.

I'm not worried about distressing the jacket in time for the Indy 4 movie. I just want a natural wear and tear look. I've seen posts of jackets that look like they have been sandblasted and bleached. That sandpapering stuff is too extreme for me. I'm also not ready for Pecard dressing just yet as I currently use Lexol-NF and Lexol-pH Cleaner. I've been thinking about rolling around on my concrete driveway on the left arm.

Why try to "evenly distress" it?

Your jacket has all natural, real life wear and tear on it, and the distressing
you have on your jacket looks GREAT!!

When people try to "evenly distress" their jackets by hacking at them with
all kinds of stuff, their jackets just end up looking fake, and too distressed
for any real life situations that could have ended up making those marks.

Just look at some of the overly distressed jobs people do. Some look
so evenly and overly distressed, that the jackets look almost rediculous
to the point of comical and clownish.

Thats also the reason you see people asking what they can do, or what
they can apply to their overly distressed nightmare in order to "fix" it
and not make it look so, well, weird.

Your jacket is PERFECT the way it is, and it looks natural because it
IS natural!!

The only think I could say to you is that you can always wear the bag
across your other shoulder and arm to give that side more distressing,
but to be honest, you don't need it.

Flathead

AMEN, FLATHEAD, and AMEN!!

It's developing it's own natural personality from YOUR daily use and history. Why 'ruin' it with faux distressing?

HIGH regards! Michaelson

I couldn't agree more. The jacket looks fantastic. Natural weathering is the only thing that looks right. Anything fake looks just that, fake.

Ok. so no faux distressing and no rolling around on the concrete driveway. I wondered what the neighbors and any passersby would have said?

In this day and age, probably nothing.



Regards! Michaelson

Yep, your jacket looks fantastic. May I ask what hide your jacket is? I have some similar real-life distressing on my Wested goat. My goat is showing through kind of gray-ish, where yours is a nice reddish-brown.

Thanks, it's the lightweight lambskin.

Couldn’t agree more with everybody else here, the jacket looks fantastic and is growing to have a true unique and truthful personality of its own!

But if you still want to do artificially distress your jacket, one of the very few Indy approved methods will be dragging you under a big truck on the road while we test your bullwhip quality as well.

If you need any help with that one, I will be glad to help!

Fink wrote:But if you still want to do artificially distress your jacket, one of the very few Indy approved methods will be dragging you under a big truck on the road while we test your bullwhip quality as well.

If you need any help with that one, I will be glad to help!

Ooh, I've been meaning to re-enact that Raiders scene. I just need to get my very first bullwhip now. I'm ordering one next week.

...if you go for the stunt, you can use mine! Just let me drive!

But back to the real deal; keep using your jacket regularly on your everyday life, must distressed jackets look really bad indeed, yours is on the right track! I know I wouldn’t dare to do anything else...

as a youngster, I would close the garage door and then roll underneath it, maybe that would serve, if you must add some distressing