Club Obi Wan

I was just curious to see how jacket owners store away their jackets during the summer months when not in use.....or display them?

For example, we are told not to store them in plastic, folding the jacket is also not good for the jacket I am told, thin wire hangers for long periods of time are probably not good either....how do you store away your jacket? For those of you who display your jackets out in the open, can simple "dust" that collects in our homes harm leather if it just sets there....?

Kind Regards,
Captain D

It's not a Wested, but my chrome goat Expo sits wadded up in the corner of my closet during the summer months. I pull it out once a week, try it on, and re-wad it up to sit in the corner again.

I just hang it in my closet using a suit coat hanger.

Likewise, I just hang it in my wardrobe using a large wooden coat hanger.

I have a hanger with wide arms which somewhat distributes the weight of the leather evenly avoiding little hanger indents. Im in and out of the closet moving things around every day, so the jackets never collect dust....

Cheers
I J

In the closet on a large wooden coat hanger.

My 'display' Wested is on a plastic hangar against the wall. other than a Picards every 6 months, I don't touch it. The drape and shape has not been affected at all, and the hangar has not left any unsightly bumps or ridges in the shoulder.

Gater, you have a display Wested? Is it your size?

If so, I admire your self-restraint not to WEAR that thing man...

it's easy...I have two. One to show, and one to go.

I have pics at http://public.fotki.com/gater/indiana_gater/

I hang my Wested on a padded hanger and put it in the back of my closet, for the summer.
Every month or so I put it on and check how many days are left until autumn.
Regards,
Forrestal

I have a life size replica of Harrison Ford in my closet to hang my Wested on during the months of non use, it distresses me that I'm going to have to get another life size Harrison Ford to hang my new Goat when it comes in.
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Just kidding, goes on a hanger. As wide as I have to replica shoulder.
Croft

I guess I'm the only one who wears his Wested during the summer?

You must be very brave to wear any jacket in Tampa. shirt and shorts are more than enough for me in Tampa

I work in a really cold building, so 5 days a week I have it on all day inside. It's not like I'm running around Florida in the summer with a coat on. But I do wear it to and from the beach with just a t shirt on underneath. After a long day of being out in the sun, and I'm driving my truck back home with the windows down, I actually like the feeling of the jacket. Of course, back in St. Louis, I would run around in the snow in shorts and a t shirt, so I'm not very normal when it comes to clothing

I guess that makes sense. I thought you were going to tell some story of the desert winds cooling down Tampa once the sun sets

Mr. Das wrote:I thought you were going to tell some story of the desert winds cooling down Tampa once the sun sets

Only when I'm out digging for the Ark, or I guess it would be the Fountain of Youth in my case.

Actually the A-2 jackets from WW2 that have held up the best over a very long period of time were the ones that were folded and laid flat. Gravity eventually will rip the shoulders apart if the jacket is on a hanger. This is obviously over a long period of time. A hanger works fine for most of us. Cheers

I actually just throw mine on the floor of my closet on in the back of my car. Kind of like Runquist said, only not folded.... But hey, I wear mine all the time. In the winter I wear it every single day!

Trevelyan, you are REALLY not alone. I wear my Wested every single day. In fact I feel naked without it. People ALWAYS criticize me for doing so and ask me why I even bother. I tell them it's for a number of reasons:

1.)Accessability. Seeing how I'm usually in Dockers or something I just don't have enough pockets. So I wear the jacket to put stuff in that would make my pants bulge in all the wrong places.

2.) Usually when I do go out for the day, very rarelly would I come home before going back out again. So I wear my Wested in the event I do go out for the evening (like the beach), I'll have my gaurd against the elements (cool-weather). Plus it comes in handy when I'm out on that very rare occassion...what's it called.....a DATE! and I can put the jacket around her if she gets too cold .

3.) I never know when something Indy-ish might happen so I'm always prepared. Like being dragged behind a truck, for instance.

4.) Cause I can! That's the most important reason I think. I don't really care what other people think/say. I still coordinate my wardrobe, lol. I figure maybe I'll start a trend.

I'm sure I'll think of other reasons, but those four are the ones that stick out in my mind.

Indy N.

It's good to see someone else wears their jacket all the time. I totally agree about the accessibility. I hate having to put stuff in my pants pockets. With the Wested, I can load up the cargo pockets, put my wallet in the inner, and I don't even realize anything's there. When I have to put my wallet in my back pants pocket, I feel like George Castanza leaning to one side when I sit down. It drives me crazy.

I'm always looking for an excuse to wear my Wested, even though summer is here! My wife knows it, too. I love that jacket!

I usually hang it up by the hook-hanger on the inside of the collar, sometimes i use a simple plastic coat-hanger.

IndianaJames wrote:I have a hanger with wide arms which somewhat distributes the weight of the leather evenly avoiding little hanger indents. Im in and out of the closet moving things around every day, so the jackets never collect dust....

Cheers
I J

Likewise---my hangers are also wider in the shoulder area and are padded as well.

Rundquist wrote:-2 jackets from WW2 that have held up the best over a very long period of time were the ones that were folded and laid flat. Gravity eventually will rip the shoulders apart if the jacket is on a hanger. This is obviously over a long period of time.

That's interesting--I didn't know that. B it makes sense.

I.J.

Indiana Gater -
nice gear collection, but also, great set of wheels!
What does that Challenger have under the hood, cubic-inch and HP-wise?

/SJ

Scandinavia..

Unfortunately, since the Dodge isn't really gear related, I'll keep this thread on-topic by not answering that.

If it WERE Gear-related, then I would have told you it was a 440cid pushing 525HP, 605Lb ft. of torque thru a 3.91:1 sure-grip rear, pulling 11's in the quarter.


Thanks for the compliment about the gear. I'm very proud of it, and am disappointed that the pics didn't come out clearer.

Unfortunately, since the Dodge isn't really gear related, I'll keep this thread on-topic by not answering that.

Gater -
thanks for keeping this thread on topic. However, the Challenger is manufactured by Dodge, who also made the Dart, a car which appears in the 1971 movie Duel, directed by a young and promising Steven Spielberg...

So there. Gear-relation established...

I want a V8 beast too...

/SJ

Actually, the car Weaver drove in Duel was a Plymouth Valiant...BUT the Dart was figured prominently in the Chachapoyan Temple at the beginning fo Raiders...the poison tipped kind!!

Our own Michaelson has a VERY nice 50's Plymouth that looks very Indy-ish, tho.

(EDIT: car year correction made by Michaelson )

Dodge Dart... Plymouth Valiant... ah - the grand days of Chrysler Corporation...


/SJ

Indiana Gater wrote:Actually, the car Weaver drove in Duel was a Plymouth Valiant...BUT the Dart was figured prominently in the Chachapoyan Temple at the beginning fo Raiders...the poison tipped kind!!

Our own Michaelson has a VERY nice 40's Plymouth that looks very Indy-ish, tho.

Duel, one of the great movie classics. Ranking is just below Jaws and The Wolf Man. Now if they would start reruns of "Then Came Bronson" my life would be complete.

Well, if we're playing "six degrees", then I can HIGHLY recommend Vanishing Point.

AWESOME film! 2 hour chase scene with hundreds of cops after a hopped-up ex-racer in a hopped up 440 Challenger.

Gear relation?? The 1997 TV Remake was EXCELLENT (although not available unless you taped it one of the two times it ever aired) and starred a younger Viggo Mortensen, who plays beside Sallah in LOTR.

TA-DAH!