better duck
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Hi Folks, I copied the main text of this topic from an earlier one (titled "Big M422"). My burning question received no attention whatsoever from any of you guys. This may have something to do with the shapely legs of actress Cyd Charisse, that surrounded my post.
Much as I admire and adore those shapely legs, me thinks leather jackets and their assorted matters of life & death have priority, at least on this forum. In order to steer away from legs and back to my "problem": over to my question:
I looked over the photos of the M422 on e-bay, and one thing I noticed, that the top colour of that jacket has given way in a lot of places to the underlying colour of, presumably, the leather.
Now my ELC M422A, that's some 4 or 5 years old now and has been worn quite a bit, doesn't show the least inclination of going the same way: the upper layer of dye seems bullitproof.
Anybody knows whether this is consistant with at least a sizeable proportion of originals?
In order to give you easy acces to the E-bay posting of the Big M422, I put in this link to the original topic. BUT ONLY FOR REFERENCE TO THE JACKET IN QUESTION; YOU WILL PLEASE IGNORE THE PHOTOS OF CYD CHARISSE('s legs)!http://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2416
Much as I admire and adore those shapely legs, me thinks leather jackets and their assorted matters of life & death have priority, at least on this forum. In order to steer away from legs and back to my "problem": over to my question:
I looked over the photos of the M422 on e-bay, and one thing I noticed, that the top colour of that jacket has given way in a lot of places to the underlying colour of, presumably, the leather.
Now my ELC M422A, that's some 4 or 5 years old now and has been worn quite a bit, doesn't show the least inclination of going the same way: the upper layer of dye seems bullitproof.
Anybody knows whether this is consistant with at least a sizeable proportion of originals?
In order to give you easy acces to the E-bay posting of the Big M422, I put in this link to the original topic. BUT ONLY FOR REFERENCE TO THE JACKET IN QUESTION; YOU WILL PLEASE IGNORE THE PHOTOS OF CYD CHARISSE('s legs)!http://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2416