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Has anyone seen this video yet from the Horween Leather Company Blog about how they make shell cordovan leather and use it in making shoes with Allen Edmonds? Really interesting video, all shell cordovan fans must see it!

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You say 'levis vintage clothing' again.

What's it called now? Collection? Or do I missunderstand you?

The name for the line is Levi's Vintage Clothing. The person who changed the name on this thread (cotton duck?) got it wrong.

so is spam the next official ingredient? I want to see faded's spam burritos.

This is essentially the "Superfuture" boot that we all had a some input in designing about 6-months back in this thread. But it never got enough interest to be put out as an official collaboration.

Any big difference between this boot and the captoe on shoemart? "The Bootmaker's Edition."

Biggest differences I see are the Shoemart boot is Grant last and Leather Soul's is Trubalance last (same last as the Indy boot); and the design of the captoe detail: Leathersoul's is a perforated captoe. Also the pull tab on the back of Leathersoul's boot.

From Leather Soul's Twitter:

^Nice Redwings cheep. Are the J. Crew collab a rough-out/ suede leather?

The Mr. Freedom jacket I'm sure is up to the same quality as Aero jackets. Pretty much the only companies that can hold a candle to Aero quality and materials are the Japanese Repro brands. Of course, Aero offers the better deal when you factor in price and you can do custom measurements.

Mr. Freedom's version is actually a nice twist on the classic motorcycle jacket. He could have put out a jacket that looks exactly like a Schott one star, Buco or Beck but theres no originality in that. But putting a D-pocket on a cafe racer and combining two distinct styles of moto jackets, thats unique. It makes the M.F. jacket instantly recognizable.

For me, the down side to the M.F. jacket is that it's really out there. Kinda "over-done". There may be too many details when you combine all the pockets, two-tone color, stars all over the sleeves and lettering plastered across the back. But that just comes down to personal taste.

My thoughts about those kind of details is they should be an end product of customizing one's own leather jacket. Back in the day a person wouldn't buy a brand new jacket already done up like that. They would buy a plain jacket then add the studs, club-patches, or whatever else.

Christophe should have no problem wearing a jacket with the words "Mr. Freedom" across the back. He is Mr. freedom after all. But any other person buying that jacket with the stars and lettering in the back is just wearing the branding. In that context, its really not any different than buying a jacket with "Ed Hardy" written all over it.

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Wowza please keep us heavily updated on those, I can see amazing things happening with them. Also I've been tryig together information over the phone from leathersoul has anyone else found that unless Tom is there te other dudes don't know shit? I mean I asked what different leathers/colors they have the Indy boot in and the dude had to ask someone else what te Indy boot is?!?!? Like wow, I don't know if I want to spend 700 bucks from people that don't know their stock.

Matt at Leathersoul definately knows his stuff.

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Regarding shrinking jeans using boiling hot water, I think some people have reported ruining the leather patch? Just a thought for anyone thinking about trying to get max shrinkage from their raw denim using this method...

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