This is an email I received today from Platon.
I hope he doesn’t mind me sharing it.
Dear Stuart,
I am happy that you received it and you like it.
It is made with our improved horsehide which is more grainy and pliable than the previous batches and as such easier and more comfortable to wear, i.e. a closer copy of the originals.
I sincerely apologize that you had to wait so long and it's really embarassing for me and was too stressful all the way for me as it was for you. But things didn't go at all as planned in 2020, same for everybody. Smaller and young firms like us took the harder hit.
You can't even imagine what we had to deal with and I better not tell you. We still have not recovered.
Plans for next contract are postponed because first priority is to deliver all the jackets.
Thanks for the VLJ post, please tell the guys I said hi, to be patient and not to worry.
Kind regards,
Platon