Re: Cooper lambskin Indy Jacket

Posted by MF from h00105a17b29a.ne.mediaone.net on June 14, 2000 at 07:26:00:

In Reply to: Re: Cooper lambskin Indy Jacket posted by Ravenwood on June 14, 2000 at 01:32:57:

In addition to a Wested, I also have a cowhide US Wings jacket and it is very high quality and very well made. The distressed finish is the best I've seen.

An useful comparison might be between a vintage Cobra and a repro. You might get a repro quicker, but it's just not the same thing.

For a lot of people it's good enough, though and that's fine. For those looking for the ethereal element, the Wested's better. It's the Real Thing; the US Wings is a repro, very good, not exact.

Of course my analogy fails a bit, as in our jacket case the Real Thing actually costs less than the repro, but maybe this helps clear things.

Also, as anyone who's worked on restoring a vehicle will tell you, it's as hard to nail down a finish date as it is for Microsoft to nail down a Windows shipping date! ;-)

// mf

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