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John has a particular knack for installing the knits so that they gather in a way as to make them 'work' and hug the waist rather than hang like a skirt. His ability to treat the hides in such a way as to make the grain pop and leather soften is particularly nice as well.

It's an incredibly comfortable jacket to wear. I was very lucky, even with the Atlantic in the way, John got the dimensions right on the first bounce - it's a slim fit but not constricting, looks great. I've packed it away for the winter, though, as we're into heavy leather weather up here!

It makes them very more-ish, that's for sure! So many choices...

My GW Dubow 20960. Got this last month. Massively impressed by it.

Recently traded my ANJ-4 in for a D-1. Much as I loved the ANJ, it was too heavy for even a Scottish winter. The D-1's a really easy jacket to wear and plenty warm for any above a serious deep freeze.

Just thought I'd toss my tuppence-worth in: I have the long zip, purely for aesthetic reasons as I prefer it over the buttons.

Hmm, this may affect my choice when my turn comes around next year. At the moment, it's a Dubow of some flavour, but this is interesting...

VLJ is a fantastic archive for knowledge and images, but the decline in activity has been evident for a quite a while.

Mind you, even the Lounge is pretty slow at the moment - it's the time of year. I'm wearing my LB-2 most of the time, just to help weather the rain, the A-2s aren't getting much of a look-in.

They were known as Harlequins, for obvious reasons. I just thought it was an imaginative solution to having lots of spare panels lying around. I think even Joseph would pass on this as a bit overdone...

Length looks good to me. I prefer my cuffs just a little longer but that's personal taste, and I don't think yours look 'off' at all. Here's mine:

Nice hide, but a bit short on the cuffs for my taste, but ymmv.

Ed said in his post that they popped up on his Facebook page. He's not the sort to lift a link without a hat tip, so I'm willing to believe him.

Platon, you should do more of these customer-order pics - particularly on your affiliate thread on the FL. People love, and are more influenced by, 'show' rather than 'tell'.

Then you're trapped in some strange M442A Moebius Strip of endless anticipation and disappointment... :o