Club Obi Wan

Many moons ago, I bought a Wested TOD jacket, which has seen me proud for a long, long time. when I bought it, it came with a laminated piece of paper, stating it was a COA and that the jacket had been cut from the same patterns as the jacket worn by Harrison Ford in Temple Of Doom, which I took to mean Wested made the jacket for the film, but reading Indygear, it would suggest not.

What's the history of this claim? If Wested didn't make the original jacket, did they just obtain the patterns and can now claim what is made out on the COA? just curious...

Wested ToD jackets are based on Noel Howard's screen-used HERO jacket.
They copied the jacket patterns.

So yes, the patterns are what the COA reads:
"cut from the same patterns as the jacket worn by Harrison Ford in Temple Of Doom"

The COA doesn't state that Wested made the jackets for the production.

NOTE:
It only applies for ToD jackets made from November 2008 in advance.


Cheers.-

Indiego Jones wrote:Wested ToD jackets are based on Noel Howard's screen-used HERO jacket.
They copied the jacket patterns.

So yes, the patterns are what the COA reads:
"cut from the same patterns as the jacket worn by Harrison Ford in Temple Of Doom"

The COA doesn't state that Wested made the jackets for the production.

NOTE:
It only applies for ToD jackets made from November 2008 in advance.


Cheers.-

Mystery solved. Thanks

But once upon a time, Wested sold a Temple of Doom jacket, but it was really just their Raiders jacket but a tad longer (?!). It came with the certificate as well. I always saw the "original patterns" bit as a fairly specious claim.

No, this is not a blurry, out-of-focus photo. This is what these classy certificates actually look like. Or at least, this is what the one I had looked like. It was barely readable, a laminated color photocopy of a photocopy, from back in the days when color photocopies didn't offer particularly high resolution.

(I love the title of this topic: What's the Authenticity of Wested's Certificate of Authenticity? )

That is correct. Wested did provide jackets for Temple of doom but they didn't land the contract. So, what happend to those ''wested temple'' jackets they provided we don't know? They may be the jackets we see on display here and there with quick bad distressing. And also that temple pattern may be the pattern used for what became the ''raiders'' jackets Peter sold to the public many years later. Who knows? The rabbit hole goes deep witht hat COA.

However, like mentioned above. The Noel Howard/screen used jacket that Peter borrowed is made from the original pattern.

Yes, and my 2002 LC jacket came with the same certificate even though the jacket had significantly different pocket flaps to the one in the film. Luckily the new one is very close. I would have been so happy to get that pattern back then. I no longer care so much about screen accuracy, although I've always fancied that ToD copy.