Uh, Zippy's dead-on the money...

Posted by Patterson from 63.104.29.112 on March 19, 2001 at 17:57:20:

In Reply to: Even if you could find one, wouldn't the cost to produce a single jacket be prohibitively expensive? (nm) posted by Zippy on March 19, 2001 at 17:44:04:

Minimum of $2-5K for a jacket from anyone worth his or her salt. Will depend on the specs, proximity to the tailor, number of revisions made. Leather isn’t like cloth - you mess up a seam, you throw it away. Really makes you appreciate what FS did for us. When you ask about why an A2 costs less than the Expedition, there are no R&D costs to recover from making A2's. When I worked with David Hack on revising their pattern last summer, he dropped a few grand on a mock-up that ended up in a dumpster - just because he's a fan like the rest of us. Something to keep in mind when we get hot under the collar about their products.

Cheers!

Patterson

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• Oh well Kittlemeier 19:53:37 3/19/2001 (2)
  • What size do you wear? (nm) Patterson 20:12:57 3/19/2001 (1)
    • 42(nm) Kittlemeier 20:27:30 3/19/2001 (0)

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