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Well it took long long enough (like, two years) but I finally managed to find someone online who could help me realize my earlier Rockstar Leather Jacket Design submitted in 2012. I'm actually surprised the search took so long, guess custom-made leather jackets aren't particularly a high demand product

Since the first image I submitted, some change shad been made before I sent it off, mostly for the sake of practicality, such as sticking with only one set of cuff-belts around the arms instead of two, removing the shoulder chains and a couple of other less-necessary details too. But it remains at least 90% true to the original design of which had various different sources of inspiration - I noticed that in games, anime and the music scene I always saw these really cool jackets and I wondered why such a thing was so hard to find for real.

Admittedly, now that I've seen it in real life (it does look nicer in person than it does in these rather unflattering photo's) there are probably a couple of choices I could have made different. The collar I feel needed to be shorter, that part was inspired by ones I saw on long coats rather than jackets and so probably was best left to those. The colour is a tad off-red, by my own request that is (I asked for Cherry red, which certainly looks pretty, but perhaps a more traditional red may have done the design more justice) and something tells me that spikes may have looked cooler than studs So one could say this is somewhat of a "prototype". However a prototype can only be called that if there's the possibility of more to be made of which will appears slightly different, and so far this is just a once-off thing I bought for my own satisfaction and not a line of new clothing items that will be for sale.

However, while this particular jacket still remains in a very new state (only worn for these photo's so far, and still has that new car jacket smell) I may even consider selling this one to anyone interested that offers a realistic offer So I can claim back some of my expenditures and perhaps get a second, slightly different one made which will be the final design and I might even then consider making it available via The Jacket Maker (the place that did this one for me) which is something they offered but I turned down (I was not sure if I was going to get paid for any of my designs sold...probably should have asked that though) But so far this one is the first of it's kind

Note: Keep in mind I'm only the designer of this jacket, not the maker. Maker's did a damn fine job though

Description
Well it took long long enough (like, two years) but I finally managed to find someone online who could help me realize my earlier Rockstar Leather Jacket Design submitted in 2012. I'm actually surprised the search took so long, guess custom-made leather jackets aren't particularly a high demand product

Since the first image I submitted, some change shad been made before I sent it off, mostly for the sake of practicality, such as sticking with only one set of cuff-belts around the arms instead of two, removing the shoulder chains and a couple of other less-necessary details too. But it remains at least 90% true to the original design of which had various different sources of inspiration - I noticed that in games, anime and the music scene I always saw these really cool jackets and I wondered why such a thing was so hard to find for real.

Admittedly, now that I've seen it in real life (it does look nicer in person than it does in these rather unflattering photo's) there are probably a couple of choices I could have made different. The collar I feel needed to be shorter, that part was inspired by ones I saw on long coats rather than jackets and so probably was best left to those. The colour is a tad off-red, by my own request that is (I asked for Cherry red, which certainly looks pretty, but perhaps a more traditional red may have done the design more justice) and something tells me that spikes may have looked cooler than studs So one could say this is somewhat of a "prototype". However a prototype can only be called that if there's the possibility of more to be made of which will appears slightly different, and so far this is just a once-off thing I bought for my own satisfaction and not a line of new clothing items that will be for sale.

However, while this particular jacket still remains in a very new state (only worn for these photo's so far, and still has that new car jacket smell) I may even consider selling this one to anyone interested that offers a realistic offer So I can claim back some of my expenditures and perhaps get a second, slightly different one made which will be the final design and I might even then consider making it available via The Jacket Maker (the place that did this one for me) which is something they offered but I turned down (I was not sure if I was going to get paid for any of my designs sold...probably should have asked that though) But so far this one is the first of it's kind

Note: Keep in mind I'm only the designer of this jacket, not the maker. Maker's did a damn fine job though