IHAL-MCL - Steerhide Overcoat/Car Coat - Burgundy or Black

[Megatron1505]

It's a beauty.

[jdl1279]

Very nice build Mclain!

[derivative666]

That burgundy is unreal

[mclaincausey]

Thanks all. Sick today but plenty warm.

[Peter]

Not for me but damn, Giles, that looks super good on you!

[mclaincausey]

[Snowy]

Backpack and leather jacket? I've been curious about that, doesn't the backpack rub on the leather??? Or leather so tough it doesn't matter????

One bad ass jacket mate!!

[Graeme]

I've worn a backpack with a leather jacket a few times. You might get a bit of rubbing from the straps, but that only affects the dye layer, and hence adds patina.

Bear in mind that leather is hugely abrasion resistant, which is why motorcyclists wear it. If a thick hide can withstand a slide down an asphalt surface then it can cope with a backpack.

What I've found is that the liner suffers from wear, normally around my lower back. I've put holes in pretty much all the liners in the Aero jackets I've owned, including cotton drill.

[Snowy]

Thanks @Graeme. The internet makes it sound like if a backpack and jacket touch each other once, both explode or something. stupid internets.

[Giles]

The internet also says "Don't wash raw jeans"…..

[Snowy]

???

So it does! Internets 0, Iron Heart Forum 2!

[Graeme]

If the Internet thinks a jacket will explode because it was worn with a backpack then I'd have to ask what they're smoking!

I can only imagine that they don't like their jackets to show any patina. Which is wrong!

[mclaincausey]

This steerhide could develop some wear patterns on account of the bag, and I wouldn't mind. But the bag is light and well balanced and the steerhide is like armor.

Basically, the materials and construction on the jacket are such that it dares you to give it your worst.

[Finn666]

wearing a backpack with this kinda leather jacket isn't the way to go imo. i'd "wear" shoulder bag or something like it…no backpack though!

[mclaincausey]

A shoulder bag would do more damage than this pack, it distributes weight evenly more places instead of carving a single groove into a single wear point. In the end, walking to and from the station to and from home and work isn't a terrible amount of rigor

[Snowy]

@Finn666:

wearing a backpack with this kinda leather jacket isn't the way to go imo. i'd "wear" shoulder bag or something like it…no backpack though!

This is the other thing that caused the internet to blow up in fact