Leather Patriot Coat

[Chandler]

From Nick's Boots:

Anyone? No thanks, not for me.

 

[mulceber]

Right off the bat I can say, no, it's not the last jacket I'll ever need.

 

[Nickb123]

I’m comfortably very pro-USA but a great jacket can be assembled or made from components elsewhere.

Time to go re-enact.

 

[Chandler]

I’m comfortably very pro-USA but a great jacket can be assembled or made from components elsewhere.

Time to go re-enact.

It's the whole design that has me scratching my head.

Are they really selling these?

 

[mulceber]

It's the whole design that has me scratching my head.

Are they really selling these?

Keep in mind, they're boot makers, not jacket makers. I've noticed something similar when denim brands try to offer leather jackets. They make a jacket that looks like the garment they're used to making.

 

[B-Man2]

…… Uhhhh …. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time…… but no!

 

[mulceber]

Just got around to watching that video and I'm just amused at how much they're...fetishizing? (honestly, that feels like the right word) 3 oz leather. It's just like how denim heads gush over how tough ultra-heavyweight denim supposedly is. Y'all do realize that, in the era you're harkening back to, most denim was 10-12 oz and most of the leather was comparatively thin, right? Right?

The way they were dunking on Pakistani leather and ESPECIALLY the way they blithely claimed there are "no companies making leather jackets in the USA anymore" was pretty infuriating too. Any of us could name 5 American companies that have been producing much nicer work than that "Patriot Coat." And while Pakistan has produced a lot of crap leather for fast fashion, all it took was Shawn handling an original goatskin Dubow and he produced some stunning goatskin on the first try.

 

[Nickb123]

The coat also runs huge. A small has around a 48” chest.

 

[Thomas Koehle]

fun to watch the clip (i did the whole 5 minutes) just to recon i'm pretty satisfied with what i already have no need for that boxy kind of thing in my closet

 

[Chandler]

They make a jacket that looks like the garment they're used to making.

You're right -- I guess that coat *does* look like a boot!

 

[Silver Surfer]

time waster

 

[Nickb123]

Visited the site, and what can I say. I strangely almost can say I’m beginning to like it. The more time I spend ruminating on it the more I “kind of” like it, gawd knows why. Won’t be buying though.

 

[Chandler]

Visited the site, and what can I say. I strangely almost can say I’m beginning to like it. The more time I spend ruminating on it the more I “kind of” like it, gawd knows why. Won’t be buying though.

Getting your 70s groove on?

 

[B-Man2]

Getting your 70s groove on?

Didn’t Hutch wear a leather jacket like this one ?

 

[mulceber]

That sweater is bringing back unpleasant memories....

 

[B-Man2]

That sweater is bringing back unpleasant memories....

Not sure what you’re talking about.
Could you be a little more specific ??

 

[Chandler]

Didn’t Hutch wear a leather jacket like this one ?
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Those lapels make Hutch's MUCH more cool.

 

[Chandler]

@B-Man2 -- Burt, it scares me that you keep that pic on file... or is it like a wanted poster?

 

[entertainment]

What happened to the apostrophe in "NICKS"?

 

[Chandler]

What happened to the apostrophe in "NICKS"?

Another sign of today's elementary school failings.