Post by indakin on Feb 29, 2008 17:28:02 GMT -5
Well its about time I post some pics of my Wested Authentic Goat again. This was my first indy jacket, and I've had it for about 2 years now. Ive worn it in snow and rain, and its always held up amazingly. Goat is so tuff, but still soft to wear (not soft to the touch like lamb) and doesn't weigh me down. I recently blasted my jacket to the core with a hot water shower (literally) and then through it in the dryer on high... 
Well it turned out good and bad. At first i freaked because pieces of leather surfacing on the skin had peeled off alot and were all throughout the dryer. After cleaning it up, I had to start re stretching some of the jacket out because it shrank a bit, but not that much because the satin sleeve liners arent any baggier seeming. The best thing about doing this to my jacket was being able to reshape my pockets a bit so they are much more scalloped and less straight pointed. Goat holds distressing well and any shaping you do, I found this out working on National Treasure, almost all the books we made were with goat skins. Lamb will distress but doenst hold shaping much.
As you can see in some of the flashed out shots, the front has some nice weathering to it now. The effect is not so redish brown in most lighting, but can have that tone in some. Its much more subtle looking to my eyes too. I actually want to do quite a bit more distressing to the overall jacket still. After i work it in a bit more, Im going to add pecards, and brown pecards to re soften the hide, because my dryer experience has dried the skin a bit from how it first was.
Here are a few pics, and a link to a gallery of shots. This wested has never had any major stitching issues that people have mentioned before. I only got a small rip on my left arm pit where the satin and cotton body connected, but it was an easy stitch up. Otherwise I've more recently really grown to love my jacket more. I had a Todds standard too in XL, which im getting rid of to get an XXL. Here are 2 shots though, with a gallery of some pics I took today.
(Excuse my tired look, its work lol)
s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee162/IndakinSL4885/?start=0
Well it turned out good and bad. At first i freaked because pieces of leather surfacing on the skin had peeled off alot and were all throughout the dryer. After cleaning it up, I had to start re stretching some of the jacket out because it shrank a bit, but not that much because the satin sleeve liners arent any baggier seeming. The best thing about doing this to my jacket was being able to reshape my pockets a bit so they are much more scalloped and less straight pointed. Goat holds distressing well and any shaping you do, I found this out working on National Treasure, almost all the books we made were with goat skins. Lamb will distress but doenst hold shaping much.
As you can see in some of the flashed out shots, the front has some nice weathering to it now. The effect is not so redish brown in most lighting, but can have that tone in some. Its much more subtle looking to my eyes too. I actually want to do quite a bit more distressing to the overall jacket still. After i work it in a bit more, Im going to add pecards, and brown pecards to re soften the hide, because my dryer experience has dried the skin a bit from how it first was.
Here are a few pics, and a link to a gallery of shots. This wested has never had any major stitching issues that people have mentioned before. I only got a small rip on my left arm pit where the satin and cotton body connected, but it was an easy stitch up. Otherwise I've more recently really grown to love my jacket more. I had a Todds standard too in XL, which im getting rid of to get an XXL. Here are 2 shots though, with a gallery of some pics I took today.
(Excuse my tired look, its work lol)
s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee162/IndakinSL4885/?start=0
