Belstaff 'Indy 4' replica pricing

[Kt. Templar]

So today I found myself at a meeting in London a couple of streets away from the London Belstaff store. SO I thought I'd go along and have a look.

There's one jacket in the window. It's a caramel coloured predistressed leather, a little dry looking. The details on the jacket are correct, it looks like the Indy 4 jacket and it it not overly slimmed down like the photo we've seen had suggested. The jacket has a Belstaff logo patch on the left arm and inside the jacket on the zipper facing on the right it has a metal plate with a serial number and what looks like a Lucas legal line embossed on it.

The jacket is not especially well put together. All of our vendors jackets are better.

The jacket is displayed with a bizzare little camera bag and a Dorfman. There is a little display board in front of it.

I go in to get some more information. The shop is empty. I ask about the jacket, no stock yet "End of NEXT month" (June). And the price.... hold on to your AB.....





£988 that's $1,923.50 at today's exchange rate.

[GCR]

£988 that's $1,923.50 at today's exchange rate.

WTF?!



And Belstaff actually thinks people will buy this because...?

You could get the complete gear setup for that price and have money left over to see Indy 4 in theaters 5 or 6 times with popcorn and a large drink! ;D ;D ;D

How exactly did this licensing agreement ever get done? It doesn't make sense to me that LF would give the license to a company like Belstaff to make "official" Indy 4 jackets, while Dorfman Pacific is still making cheap wool-felt "official" hats for $40-$50 bucks. (No offense meant to Dorfman owners, but $40-$50 bucks IS cheap when you compare it to this obnoxiously overpriced jacket! )

[Kaplan]

I'd like to see what a $1,923.50 indy jacket looks like. For that much money that jacket had better do you some sort of sexual favor.
I love my G&B's but not that much...

[Ragingblues]

Yeah, it better be lined with money.... $1,900.00 worth to be exact.


Ken

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May 19, 2008 13:16:42 GMT -5 Kaplan said:

For that much money that jacket had better do you some sort of sexual favor.

Good one Andy. ;D ;D ;D

It should at least come with one of these inside it.



Cheers,
John

[Capt. Zak]

Keep the jacket. I'll take her!

[nickhorror]

I think it comes with a little note pad in the pocket.

What you do is write down your idea for Indy 5; and at night, while you are sleeping, Geroge Lucas sends the ghost of his artistic talent to steal it.

[Kt. Templar]

Belstaff is very close to here, which I thought was quite funny.



Ok, a few pics, sorry they are not great, very shiny window!!

I didn't even notice that they had a Mutt Jacket too!

[GCR]

Ha ha...Hanover street, nice eye on that one, KT!

Well, the jacket looks like an Indy jacket, but certainly NOT a $1,900 dollar Indy jacket. What a joke...

The color looks strange as well (it could be the lighting, I suppose) it looks much too light, far lighter than the jacket looks in the new film.

[Kaplan]

I've never been to Hanover St. I've been down Hangover Ave. before though.