Gentlemen,
Some more photos from the inside of the jacket, specifically the fur quality.
Shawn has told me this morning that his sheepskins are imported, and my jacket was made from Italian and Turkish hides.
While the structure of the seal and the reddish hide is different, the creamy color of the fur is quite similar.
Compared to my Aero from Scotland, this jacket from Shawn feels less engineered, less perfect... The Aero is... What a guitar maker would call "book matched" (when the two wood parts of a guitar top are chosen to be perfectly "mirrored"), very high quality and a matching look all over...
This FS looks like it was made from whatever was available, showing straight and curly parts, sometimes even on the same panels.
Collar:
The collar was made from the reddish hide, and I would say it is slightly thinner or less dense than the seal sheepskin.
The reddish was used for the sleeves, here showing the inside of the sleeve: totally different fur structure...
The wind flap is the seal hide but here in the shorter quality... Beautiful stuff that will make a great M-444 or D-1.
Best regards,
Ties