/fa/ - Fashion

>>14761202
Re: the aging. Thanks, but I was taught by someone in the film industry, so I've been fortunate. The rules, even if you're going for over-the-top (think Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), is to make sure that each scratch could have realistically happened when you were wearing the jacket. So, easiest thing to do is find the contact points and hard wear by simply wearing the jacket and taking pics of where it stretches on you when you move a certain way. Your real elbows may not coincide with the elbows of the jacket precisely. Your shoulders may form semicircles a little higher or lower than the shoulder seams, etc. So, you gently do those areas first. Then you do hardware; which zipper do you use the most? That one gets the most distressing. Do any of your fingers brush alongside the hide of the jacket as you zip up or down? If so, then that area gets a little more. Then you do the ends of things: the bottom of cuffs, bottom of the waist, top of the collar etc, depending on the situation (waist usually gets more towards the center because of belts and jeans, the neck is usually soft distressing unless you have 5-oclock shadow all the time, etc.).

After all of this, then you do the really crazy stuff. Did you fall off a motorbike and slide on your back? Okay...then shoulderblades might get a little more. etc.

Regarding the painting...honestly I'd leave it if I were you. If you paint the zippers, the paint will come off just by looking at it, and the buttons won't stay black for long either.

The brown jacket in your pic here is pre-distressed by the factory. What they generally do (every company has a procedure, but it's generally the same); the leather is distressed BEFORE the jacket is sewn together. This is why the distressing throughout the jacket is uniform, but obviously not real.

It's a nice thing to look at, but to any rider it's fake.

>>14703155
The photo washes out the colour due to all the white, but the jacket is actually ivory/cream. The purpose was to have a light coloured formal coat to go over my light coloured suits (i.e. springtime, late summer), and it's proven to be awesome in every way. Not that compliments matter, but this coat attracts far more attention than any other in my collection, probably because it screams 'money'. That's what proper tailoring can get you.

>>14703164
I wish....sadly, it's not based...it's just 'informed'. It's important to know these kinds of things if you're sourcing leather, or trying to decide between manufacturers, or even trying to solve the question of whether or not 'Made in Pakistan' is as laughably terrible as it seems.

>>14702875
Consider another pic of my distressed jacket. This is with the finishing complete. All the signs of wear are in places that I'd either scratch up myself by accident or by simple wear and tear, and you have to look close to see it.