Show me your broken in repro...

[rrackleyadams]

I love A2s and am proud to have a newly acquired GW Rough Wear...I also really enjoy seeing pics of great vintage jackets. I'd love to see your pics of repros that you've had for multiple seasons of wear to see how they age...please share if you can!

 

[wop54]

This is how my GW looks like after two years of intense wearing
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11874

 

[mindful]

loving that gw 1401 cant wait to get my gw 1938 in light russet

 

[rrackleyadams]

This is how my GW looks like after two years of intense wearing
http://vintageleatherjackets.org/viewto ... =8&t=11874

That jacket is incredible...wow. Thanks for sharing, Carlo.

 

[Jaguar46]

This is how my GW looks like after two years of intense wearing
http://vintageleatherjackets.org/viewto ... =8&t=11874

Beautiful

 

[TankBuster]

Very nice! Broke in the right way.....by wearing!

 

[wop54]

Very nice! Broke in the right way.....by wearing!

I have already post this pic, but to show what I mean by intense wearing: showers, work at the stables, etcetera...

 

[rrackleyadams]

Love it...thanks for sharing. The reason I asked to see some broken in jackets is that we spend a lot of time on VLJ looking at new acquisitions and talking GW, ELC, Aero, RM, etc...but I really want to see what they look like after a few years. Aero claims on their website that after a few years they are hard to distinguish from originals, a big claim. Clear from the above photos that a GW certainly looks like a 60+ year old original after a few years of use/abuse!

 

[ButteMT61]

Carlo really beats his jackets. Shows what they can take. I think I've learned after initially being afraid to hurt these expensive pieces. Nonsense. The pics are the proof.

 

[airfrogusmc]

1939 Werber (goodwear)

 

[ButteMT61]

Looks great, Allen!

 

[wop54]

Allen, chapeau!!!

 

[airfrogusmc]

Carlo that GW RW looks AMAZING. Thanks Scott and Carlo. Love my GWs....

 

[flyboy]

Not A2 - sorry 'bout that.

But here is my Aero Irvin just out of the box:

And here is how it looks today - two years and some soaking treatments later:

Close up - the wool is really great now, I think:

 

[John Lever]

If someone could rotate the final pic I would be very grateful. For some reason pics taken from my phone are difficult o edit on photobucket

 

[ButteMT61]

You guys posting B-3 pics are truly mocking those in 100°+ weather!
Jackets looks great.

 

[mindful]

the b3 looks so much nicer when broken in i cant wait to brake my d1 in this winter hopefuly will get the same good results

 

[flyboy]

That's the way, John L. Looking good!

 

[2jakes]

You guys posting B-3 pics are truly mocking those in 100°+ weather!
Jackets looks great.

Being from Texas , I can relate ! Although I've owned this jacket for many years , I've
only had occasion to wear in 2-3 times ! But I love it still !

 

[ButteMT61]

Looks good, Jake. And you're gettin' the hang of posting pics too!